[Tamil] Share Some Music

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Re: [Tamil] Share Some Music

Postby vijayjohn » 2015-10-17, 20:57

Every now and then, I randomly (though only vaguely) remember this song ("Viswanathan Velai Vendum") because I remember seeing at least a clip of that song as a kid. I didn't realize it was from Kadhalikka Neramillai, the same movie as "Unga Ponnana Kaigal"! It looks more and more familiar towards the end in particular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swzBXaGeJ-0
And this is another SLT song I remember listening to once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOGwFF5KgGI
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Re: [Tamil] Share Some Music

Postby vijayjohn » 2016-07-04, 5:31

"Amudhai Pozhiyum Nilave" is an old song from towards the end (I think) of the Indian Tamil movie Thangamalai Ragasiyam (1957). I've long been vaguely familiar with this song because I often hear my dad singing the chorus, but I think I only started looking for/finding videos of it a few months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK2zehjK0I4
This is another Sri Lankan song from the 1978 movie Anuragam called "Unnai Varaindhene Ullamadhile":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7to9GoLNs
Another one called "Oh, Oh, En Aasai, Radha!" from Puthiya Kaatru (1975):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-gU3j-2wQ
And "Chandra Vadhanathil Indra Neela Poo" from Thendralum Puyalum (1978):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ads3prqQrB4
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Re: [Tamil] Share Some Music

Postby Michael » 2016-09-10, 0:01

Now that I've started learning Tamil again, I shall definitely be following this thread! :D

When I first became interested in Tamil and its culture, this was one of the first Tamil albums I downloaded. It's an album of devotional music, called Joti Vaḍivāna Aṇṇamalai, which I think is spelt ஜொதி வடிவான அண்ணமலை in Tamil. Could anyone tell me what the title means?

Listening to this album while working on my Tamil lessons = Absolute tranquility.

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Re: [Tamil] Share Some Music

Postby vijayjohn » 2016-09-10, 3:31

Michael wrote:When I first became interested in Tamil and its culture, this was one of the first Tamil albums I downloaded. It's an album of devotional music, called Joti Vaḍivāna Aṇṇamalai, which I think is spelt ஜொதி வடிவான அண்ணமலை in Tamil. Could anyone tell me what the title means?

It's Jōti Vaḍivāna Aṇṇāmalai ஜோதி வடிவான அண்ணாமலை. See e.g. here. :) அண்ணாமலை is a hill in Tamil Nadu (in the Eastern Ghats) and a pilgrimage site for devotees of Lord Shiva. It's also used to refer to a famous Shiva temple on that hill. ஜோதி can mean various things, including 'light' and 'star', but it can also mean 'God', and perhaps that's what it means here. So I guess it would mean something like "Annamalai in the form of God." I think the singer of that album might actually be from Palakkad in Kerala, just across the border from Tamil Nadu. :D

This is my favorite song in Tamil so far ("Kanni Magal" from the (unreleased?) movie Kizhakku Pakkam Kathiru). The singer of this song is also from Kerala near the border with Tamil Nadu (in Thiruvananthapuram). :blush: It's actually the first song I ever posted in this thread, but the link I posted doesn't work anymore, so here's another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byPId1fKRSI
This is a Carnatic song called "Thandhai Thai Irundhal" by S. Sowmya, who is actually from Tamil Nadu. :P I have an audiotape of her some of her songs starting with this one - or at least I used to but haven't found it in years, only the cover for the tape, so this is the first time I'm listening to this song in years because I just found this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym6INBDT_Eo
And here are some more '70s movie songs from Sri Lanka. Old Sri Lankan Tamil movies are pretty interesting; although they don't seem to have ever been nearly as popular as Indian Tamil movies even in Sri Lanka, they were made during the civil war but often with collaboration with Sinhalese artists. This one is "Anbil Malarntha Sontham" from Anuragam, which I already found and posted two songs from (and the music director for this movie was Sinhalese):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW9HJJFfgpY
This is another song from Thendralum Puyalum, which I also posted a song from in my last post, called "Iyarkai Magal Ezhuthum Kavithaiyil" (sorry for the poor sound quality):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbEVduFzO1I
"Sammathama Sollitharava" from Komaligal (1976):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUMF8dkv_YA
And "Ilavenile Manavanile" from the same movie, again with unfortunately not such good sound quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcpvZg2K8Hg

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Re: [Tamil] Share Some Music

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-15, 3:10

This is a Sri Lankan Tamil song that's basically an ode to people's home villages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdy4kSHIUvY
This is another called "Kavitha":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJptF0WO5AM
This is a Hindu festival song sung by C. Kalavathi called "Maathalayil Maasi Maatham" from Sri Lankan movie Aval Oru Jeevanadi (1980), produced by Geethalaya Movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ZrsGU3aTs
And this is just a dumb song from the Indian TV show Bigg Boss that recently came out and makes me laugh :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Tr4g0gZTw
Lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TuIE1POHTk

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Re: [Tamil] Share Some Music

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-06-25, 7:50

This is another Sri Lankan Tamil song from the movie Aval Oru Jeevanadi (the same movie I got the song "Mathalaiyil Maasi Maatham" from). I think this song may be called "Thannanthaniyaa":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxdtqlqI0Cw
This is yet another Sri Lankan Tamil song, this time apparently not a movie song but rather just a poem, sung by S. K. Pararajasingham. This one has the lyrics (in Tamil script) in the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXluesw9zGg

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Re: [Tamil] Share Some Music

Postby vijayjohn » 2022-01-30, 4:37

Tamils live in lots of other countries besides just India and Sri Lanka, and in at least some of these other countries, some of them have also made (and continue to make) their own music videos.

This is a rap in Tamil from Malaysia called "Kappe Varroh." The lyrics can be found written in Roman script in the video description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3btnbAb5TI
This is a song from a Tamil TV series that's apparently really popular in Singapore. It's called "Adi Penne," and the series is called Naam. Click on CC for subtitles in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pOVz45p8Ho


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