But putting a film together is totally a different task. Though a bucket of only three films makes it tough to arrive at wise judgments, it is safe to say when it comes to song visuals Rajiv Menon is somewhere near the top of the class. His songs are of international standard in terms of the aesthetics, the story they say, and the emotions they evoke. Rajiv Menon picturised them so well that the songs connected with you at a higher plane. But all these songs were not only about music, lyrics and choreography – they delivered a stronger and bigger experience. Hariharan scored amazingly well in the timeless Vennilave vennilave…, a mellifluous number with memorable interludes. Strawberry kanne. was something so different that one couldn’t really understand what it was, but it kept ringing in your ears. There was this totally new ‘voice’ of SPB in Thanga Thaamarai… – again a trademark Rahman creation, the song is absolutely captivating and it added one more National Award to the singer’s kitty. Designed like Chinna china aasai., the song made us cherish the simple and pure beauties of life. With Poo pookum oosai. , an evergreen melody, Rahman-Vairamuthu combo lightened our hearts. And in his inimitable style, the album had an assorted variety of songs. He kept introducing to us new sounds, new voices, and new music. It was the twentieth century and AR Rahman was churning out hits with extraordinary consistency. Not that we would have missed him otherwise, as the specific portion was all over in the trailers and it was a trendsetter already.
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One sequence that earned the attention of these serial bulbs was Prabhu Deva’s intro dance moves in Ooh la la…. At high points of the film, in the judgment of the hall owner, these tiny fancy lights would be made to run around the entire screen in frenzied patterns literally electrifying the place – just so that we don’t miss out on something important on screen.
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Back then in the place where I grew up, the hall owners added to your cinema experience by doing all sorts of things, like – there used to be a series of multi-coloured lights (aka serial set) running throughout the perimeter of the silver screen. The hall was packed like totally charged up. We were some fifteen of us, exclusively school kids (grade details: withheld), watching one of the initial shows of the film in a friend’s theatre. It was the directorial debut of Rajiv Menon, who was by then a famous cinematographer, thanks to Bombay. Commemorating its golden jubilee year, AVM released Minsara Kananvu on Pongal, 1997.