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The Spice of Life - Movies and Songs

S called. Before he started speaking, I knew what he’d say. Let’s meet up and study something. Yeah ! it’s been over a month since 2nd semester started and we hadn’t even looked into the books list. EC1 was a couple of weeks ahead. It was time.
He was in Stanford meeting up with some friend. He wanted to catch up with me in the library after lunch.

S - “Library le meet pannalam. Books list eduthuko. We’ll find them there and also plan for studying for this sem. ”

Me – “Wokay. I have some work in the bank. Athu mudichittu, I’ll leave to library.”

As planned, we met in the library but couldn’t find the books. They’d all been taken. After talking about textbooks for a while, the conversation just slipped into movies and songs.

Me - “Have you heard this song ‘Ragasiyamanadu kaadal’ ? A gem of a song. I was listening to top 10 on raaga yesterday and came upon this .. Quite accidentally”

S - “Haven’t heard of it. New song ? Which movie ?”

“Kodambakkam”

“k. Have you listened to ‘New york nagaram’ ? A R Rahman is back to Tamil. He’s simply awesome. You heard his other songs ?”

“Sure. I love his songs.”

Soon we were talking about movies. He’s a big time Kamal fan. So spoke about the much awaited ‘Vettayadu Vilayadu’ and old hit movies like 16 Vayathinile , Apoorva Sahodarangal, Indian …

I sometime feel that talking about a movie brings the best out of a person. Being a movie buff myself, I've felt really happy whenever I’ve lost myself fully into a movie. A good movie is like a drug. When you’re seeing it the surrounding just disappears. Same with a good song. You could close your eyes and totally get lost in it.

As I was listening to A R Rahman’s ‘New York Nagaram’, I thought I’d write down my top 5 movies and songs. Also, I’d been wanting to put such a list in orkut for long.

Movies

English
The Matrix
Forrest Gump
T2
The Saint
The Terminal

Malayalam
Thalavattam
Manichittrathazhu
Veendum chila veetu kaaryangal
Kireedam
Sanmanassulavarku samadhanam

Kannada
Ramachari
Muthina Haara
Nammura Mandara Hoove
Rayaru bandaru mavana manege
Amruthavarshini

Hindi
Sarfarosh
Deewar
Rang De Basanti
Anand
Ghulam

Tamil
Indian
Gentleman
Apoorva Sahodarangal
Basha
Roja


Songs

English
Wind of change (Scorpions)
Turn back time (Aqua)
Tourniquet (Evanescence)
Chiquitita (ABBA)
Dreamy Eyes (Aguilera)

Malayalam
Pinneyum pinneyum (Krishnagudiyil oru .. )
Ponveene ennullil (Thalavattam)
Aayiram kannumay (Nokketha doorathu …)
Kanneer poovinte (Kireedam)
Ithiri poovinte (Manivathoorile aayiram sivaraathrikal)

Kannada
Aakashadage(Ramachari)
Jothe jotheyali (Geetha)
Hindustanavu endu mareyada (Amrutha Ghalige)
Cheluve nanna (Suprabhata)
Manadaase Hakkiyage(Nammura Mandara Hoove)

Hindi
Mere rangon mei (Maine pyaar kiya)
Jadoo hai tera hi jaadoo(Ghulam)
Khalbali(Rang de basanti)
Pehla Nasha (Jo Jeeta Woh Sikander)
Dil kya Karen (Julie)

Tamil
Chinna chinna aasai(Roja)
Pachai nirame(Alaipayuthey)
Vaseegara(Minnale)
Onra renda(Kaaka kaaka)
Ragasiyamanathu kaathal (Kodambakkam)

Mal Gospel
Aayiram soorya golangal onnichudichalum
Mohathinte therileri pokaruthe
Dukhathine paanapathram karthavente kayyil thannal
Paithalam yeshuve
Raathri rathri rajatha raathri

Comments

Anonymous said…
Glad :) Wondering if you like "Hari muraleeravam", songs in His Highness Abdullah and the ones "Kaliveedurangiyallo Kalivakku urangiyallo". How about "Chandrikayil aliyunnu chandrakantham" and the oldies :)
7:37 PM
luminous_infinitus said…
Of course. Most of the songs in the movie were superb. Is hari muraleeravam the song that's sung during the competition ?
Lalettan and Nedumudi are a great combination. Seen Bharatham ?

I like the the soft tune of
Kaliveedurangiyallo..
kalivaakkurangiyallo
Oru nokku kaanuvaanen
aathamavu thengunnallo

havent heard the other song.
10:24 PM
Anonymous said…
Its tough to read the manglish & figure the songs from the list....But one song song for sure I can agree with is "Winds of Change" I havent heard it for yrs...simply coz i dont have the mp3 or CD of the same...Anyday no song will replace that for me :)
1:14 AM
ţŷŔ said…
Manivathoorile Aayiram Sivaraathrikal.. A great song!! was searching all over the net to get a good quality file for the duet version.. no good.. Can yoiu help me find one? Or better still post a link to D/L it? or even better upload it to some file sharing site and post thge links? Will be very gratefull if you can.. thanx.
7:22 AM
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