Pudhu vellai mazhai is the original Tamil version of the Hindi song which became a nation-wide sensation Yeh haseen wadiyan from the film Roja, which was released in 1992 in it’s original language. The Tamil lyrics were written by Vairamuthu. A R Rahman‘s music was his first outing as lead music composer for a film,…
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The lyrics of Yeh haseen vadiyan were penned by P K Mishra for the Hindi version of Roja in 1994. A R Rahman‘s original music from the original Tamil film was carried over unchanged, with this Hindi version being sung by K S Chithra and S P Balasubrahmanyam. Yeh Haseen Vadiyan Yeh Khula Aasman song…
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The phenomenon of the various regional language film industries feeding material to the Hindi film industry in Bombay, and vice-versa, has been going on for a long time. In a country so diverse in its cultures and languages, it was always been natural to translate what works from one market into another market in the…
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As much of a startling change to the landscape of Hindi film music as A.R. Rahman was in the mid-1990s, his transition from Tamil films to mainstream Hindi cinema was also a gradual one from the audience’s perspective. He only showed up on the average film-fan’s radar with the release of the Hindi dub of…
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As teenagers in the 90s, we had started to assert our tastes in music beyond our parents’ choice of old Hindi film melodies. While we liked those too, we were ever open to new influences, and so it was during a ride in our Aunt and Uncle’s car, that our cousins put in the audio…
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While my family is originally from South India, besides speaking a language and seeing my grandmother’s Kannada books and newsletters lying around on occasion, I didn’t have a lot of regular exposure to strictly South India culture as a kid. I might have casually watched the odd film shown on Doordarshan, but only casually, since…
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Being one of only three of the dozens of major Indian languages I can claim to know, I’ve always been curious about Marathi cinema. I watched my fair share on the TV in the good old days of Doordarshan, but all that taught me was that I was almost always in for either utter tragedy…
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