Ever since I listened to the numbers from En Suvasakatre in my standard 8,I became a crazy fan of ARR.Like all die hard Rahmaniacs do,I did some research on thala,read his biography and listened to all his numbers.Until very recently I was under the impression that his first composition was a jingle(aka an advertisement).I was wrong however;seems he first composed when he was a mere child at the age of 11! Moreover,this composition has appeared in a Malayalam film called Penpada(1975).
Here is an excerpt from an ARR forum:
On April 2006, on a music program in "Amrutha TV", Baranikkavu Shivakumar was the guest. He is the one who written the songs for the film "Penpada"(1975). He started to sing "vellithen kinnam pol" and declared its ARR's tune.
When he was working for that film, the music director was R.K.Shekhar(ARR's father). Totally 4 song to compose. He composed 3 song and take a break. That time six year old ARR came and play some music bits in Harmonium. All are surprised and ask him to do the full song. Everyone like it and decided to use it as the movie's soundtrack. Its titled "Vellithen Kinnam Pol" and sung by Jayachandran. Whole orchestra is done by his father RK Shekar but the basic tune is Rahman's.
When ARR came to trivandrum (Kerala) for Kairali-Swaralaya award, KJ.Yesudas confirmed this story and sang this song on stage!
As with all other ARR songs,I liked it,though with a slight sense of doubt that ARR may not have composed it at all;that doubt vanished when I became addicted to the song after hearing it 4 times.I believe ARR was the first to brew the Slow Poison-a poison without an antidote!!!
Download Vellithen Kinnampol from here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/83782051/VellithenKinnampol.mp3
Or listen to it here:
http://www.devaragam.com/vbscript/MusicNew.aspx?MovieId=595
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