![]() ![]() This is laughable, considering over here in Malaysia, around the 80s, there was just ONE radio channel dedicated to Indian music, and maybe ONE hour dedicated to Hindi music and there was a period (early 80s) when RDB songs pretty much dominated that hour. Thoravazhakkan: Boy, did you get a bug up your ass about 2 words! Ok, I’ll grant that “wiped out” was probably too extreme a term to describe the de-throning of Raja as the No 1 composer in Tamil by Rahman in the 90s, and I even respect your opinion of RDB as not being a composer of note although I vehemently disagree with it, but where I’ll have to call you out is in your assertion that RDB wasn’t even that popular to start with and his fame is owing to some sort of post-internet retrospection. This made my producer think he should also eat ice-cream every day, because that’s clearly how greatness is achieved. I smiled as he went on: He danced so gracefully in that ‘panju mittai’ song… He was so big, and yet he had so much elegance and style… Then he thought some more and recalled that every time he thought of SPB, he remembered his grandmother, who told him that “SPB eats ice cream every day and still he sings so well”. He’s a millennial, a self-confessed “not a songs guy”, and he said he knew SPB as Prabhu Deva’s father in Kadhalan. And this morning, I was talking to my video producer about this. How on earth do you write about SPB? How do you contain the vastness of his accomplishments, the vast pleasures he has brought us, in a couple of thousand words? Is it even possible for mere language to express what this man has meant to so many music lovers? All this has been on my mind for the past few days, as we kept getting news about the singer’s deteriorating condition. A journey through the great singer’s songs in Tamil cinema, by the two great composers who used him the most, and used him the best. ![]()
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