Comments on: Debonair detectives and seductive Bharatanatyam dancers

By: kowsik

kowsik — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:35:55 +0000

Nice post. I hadn’t seen any of those movies, but used to live on these songs during my 10+2.

As for Eruvaaka…, Eru == lake, vaaka is used in suffix/prefix form to denote the “outside”, Eruvaaka == bank of the lake.

By: Ontu

Ontu — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:14:39 +0000

Barso re Megha Megha Barso re….jus like the “Guru” song.Great work.Kudos to ya….ohhhhh and I am a female fan …not like I am asking credit for that [:P]

By: Bambai ka babu

Bambai ka babu — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:30:13 +0000

Does any one of the entire lyrics to “Bambai ka babu” that goes ” main bambai ka babu…..”

By: Paddy

Paddy — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:42:36 +0000

another yamagazing post! loved it

By: bellur

bellur — Tue, 15 May 2007 07:00:01 +0000

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By: Pao Babi

Pao Babi — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:27:42 +0000

In our schizophrenic makeup we claim, inter alia, to be a Person of Andhra Origin, but are quite innocent of all these gulti charges flying furiously back and forth :(

Dekho na (pliss) socho na, of all the un-gult babuz n babiz. Post please!

By: Fleiger

Fleiger — Sat, 12 May 2007 15:57:47 +0000

For sheer tp and entertainment value of songs, I would suggest “Eggs Our Our”… ;)

By: Sakshi

Sakshi — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:54:20 +0000

Megha – Wanted to say i really enjoyed the original article.. but i am really impressed by the quality of the comments and the discussion on this post…

[on Kosaraju] Another beautiful song by Kosaraju was in Thodikodallu (1957) called “Townu Pakkakelladduro “. The song is a playful argument between husband and wife on whether they should move to the town (from the village) in search of better life. While Ghantasala argues in favor of ‘town’ Jikki in her inimitable voice counters that argument.

Kosaraju (in the lines of Sri Sri) was a writer primarily influenced by the socialist ideas (ardently preached by the likes of Nehru).

My favorite song in ‘Thodikodallu’ is another jem called “Kaarulo Shikaarukelle paala Buggala pasidi Dana” written by ‘Atreya’. Even though i donot subscribe to the socialist ideas this song made me understand their view point in an excellent way…

By: Mythili

Mythili — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:20:31 +0000

[deitaDi] Thanks for reminding those gems :) I always found the apparent coincidence that both the Telugu and Hindi versions mean the same thing... real cool. "payaninchE O chilukaa, egiripO paaDaipoyenu gooDu" "chal ud jaa re panchi"

By: deitaDi

deitaDi — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:28:02 +0000

some of Master Venu's songs that come to mind are tODi kODaLLu (1957) - This was based on Sharat's novel "Nishkruthi" and was also made in Hindi as "Apne Paraaye (1980)" kaarulO shikaarukeLLE paala buggala pasiDi daana aaDutu paaDutu pani chEstunTe alupu solupEmunnadi Townu pakkakelladdurO Dingiree, Daambikaalu povaddurO kalasi vunTe kaladu sukhamu (1961) mudda banti poolu peTTi, mogili rEkulu jaDanu chuTTi maangalya balam (1958) aakaaSa veedhilO andaala jaabili vaaDina poolE vikasinchenE siri sampadalu (1962) ee pagalu rEyigaa panDu vennelaga maarinadEmi cheli (venDi vennela jaabili, ninDu punnami jaabili) vENugaanammu vinipinchenE, chinni kRShNayya kanipinchaDe endukO siggendukO He reused the rafi number "chal ud jaa re panchi" from bhabi (1957) in kuladaivam (1960) as payaninchE O chilukaa, egiripO paaDaipoyenu gooDu