Seems like I've commenced my own A.R.Rahman series here! Although this time I've managed to come up with a number from the early 90's and one of A.R.Rs earliest compositions in his career. "Thee thee thithikkkum thee", an evergreen classic from the movie Thiruda Thiruda, which was directed by Maniratnam. What is there to say about this piece? Any attempt on trying to describe this composition will not do justice to it. The way Rahman has created this fusion of indian classical and western music is simply extraordinary!
Moreover this number also has an interesting story behind. In a radio talk show lyricist Vairamuthu, who had penned this song, was talking about singers, who have sung a minimal numbers of songs but at the same time created impact in these few renditions. Inbetween these thee thee was one of those numbers. Lyricist Vairamuthu told that he had written the lyrics for Thee thee in a hurry and went off, so he wasn't present when the recording of the song was happening. When he finally returned and heard the song, he was astonished by the voice and also curious to know, who the owner of this mesmerizing voice was. To his great surprise A.R.R. told him that the singer was a chinese girl, who apparently only knew Chinese and English! This singer was Caroline and unfortunately it appears like she has only sung this song. Nevertheless I was awestruck, when I came to know about this and I wonder how come I haven't heard about this piece of information before. Not to forget Carolines sincere effort to get the somewhat correct pronounciation.
Overall a killer composition, which clearly demonstrate that A.R.R. and his listeners never gets stuck in monotony!
With this brief introduction to this number I'm now coming back to my version. It was a long pending idea to sing this one and after coming across a mediocre karaoke track, which I had to do some work on, I decided to give it a shot. So here it is.
Movie: Thiruda Thiruda (1993)
Music: A.R.Rahman
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Originally sung by: Caroline, Noel James
2 comments:
Good try Jenny! vocals volume it too high., besides perfect.. all the best..
Allen Sebastian~
www.allensebastian.in
Thank you for the feedback Allen. I have now reduced the volume of the vocal track and re-uploaded the song.
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