Beautiful, yet not so popular Malayalam song.
Used to watch this song on television with my sister and we loved this song a lot. It was one of those in-home hits that others did not know about or appreciate.
It was not so popular in the sense that none of my friends had heard this song, but we found this hugely melodious and appealing. Remember trying to tell all those juke box kind of people, the musical anoraks around us, about such a song. The lyrics ‘Anpin Thumpum Vaalum’ did not register any sense with them, or even with me, only that it sounds sweet. So they ask me to sing it, so they can identify the song from the "tune", and then, as my untrained voice tries to indulge in some rhythmic rendition, they just burst out laughing. It could be the lack of any background instruments or more probably a lack of any melody in my voice... but they did have a good laugh at my expense.
Finally I found it on the WWW, and I want the whole $%^&ing world to know about this song, at least the few ppl I know...
I had goggled and YouTube-searched for this song many times before, so many years before. Yet today morning as I got up, the first thing I did was to search once again (pretty jobless here), I had thought of different spellings to use, but the first vague stuff I typed returned the YouTube video for this song... and that almost made my day...
Watching this song brought back some memories of the not so distant times when I came home on weekend and watched television with my sister, while momma was cooking our lunch and our grandmother, well she can be at different places simultaneously, but we can always hear her shouting in the background. Sometimes we hear her asking the dog to shut-up although we rarely hear the dog itself.
This song was mostly played in the afternoon. The probability of watching this song together was very remote. it should be played on a weekend when we returned home, and at a time when we were at home, we have to agree on the same channel. Grandmother, the resident cricket buff and viewer of most crappy soap and reality show should not have the remote, in which case there could be a fight, very close to fist fight and some tears. More importantly, this being my beautiful house on a little village on top of a little hill, there should be electricity.
Power cuts at home are more frequent than illiterate idiots being voted to power where they can then decide on when and for how long each one of us should live without electricity. Then there is the cable TV network and our cable guy, rather the cable over-lord, Manu, who has attached this network using some strings instead of regular cables and stapled it inside a not so water tight PVC piping so that even a dark cloud could render the cable network useless.
Even so, in spite of all these adversities, I remember several weekends when we were together and were able to watch this song together, keeping quiet until the song ended and marveling at how different it was and how soothing it felt.
This was not the only song we held this feeling for, there are several other songs, one being Lucky Ali's , ‘gori theri aanken’...
This is a pretty pointless article befitting a pointless blog, but just listen to the song, it is beautiful... now I am listening to it with my lil one, trying to tell him how 'appachi' and me used to listen to this song...
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