Academy Award-winning music director AR Rahman’s first film, Roja (1992), had the title track sung by singer SP Balasubrahmanyam. In the 1990s, Balasubrahmanyam was already a popular singer, but this particular song continues to top the list of his best. Sing: “Kaadhal rojavae, deceive nee deceive? Kanneer vazhiyudhadi kannae.” (Rose …
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The characters played by Balasubrahmanyam have been time tested, with great memory value because they were few and far between. Kathiresan, a police officer, returns home and sees Prabhu, her son, sitting with a notebook in deep pain. When his efforts to figure out what’s wrong meet the defensive “it’s …
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The distinctive voice of SP Balasubrahmanyam has been an inevitable part of the childhoods of dozens of people in India and the world. For many of us who were born in the 1980s and 1990s, christened on the Indian Internet as ‘children of the 80s’ and ‘children of the 90s’, …
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