Posting 1539 Mahakavi Subramanya Bhatathiyars poems exude varied emotions. Some kindle desa bakthi. Some take us on the road of devotion. Some are plain fun & masti. Some are overtly romantic. And some make us relive our childhood. The categories are endless. If one knows the Tamil language, then the enjoyment is boundless. Bharathi, in his simple, poverty ridden life, loved his wife Chellamma very dearly to his heart. He loved her believing she was the ultimate Rathi, as he had expressed in one of his poems. Bharathiyars great grand daughter, S.Vijaya Bharathi even attributes that all the Kannamma references in his songs were, in fact, written originally as Chellamma by the Mahakavi in reverence to his wife, but were changed later while publishing as Kannamma in order that the personal reference to his wife was concealed, as a matter of respect to his private life. Bharathiyars wife Chellamma, while in coma in her last stages is said to have recited a couple of lines of a poem by the mahakavi, a normally impossible feat for a person in coma. Such was his impact on his wife, whom he immensely loved! Bharathis poems were published partially by his wife Chellamma in 1922 & partially by Bharathis step brother Viswanathan in 1924. As per S. Vijaya Bharatis words (vide, website subramaniabharati) few of the songs that have been included in the compilation of his original works were really not of his but were of people who admired him. These revelations apart, many of Bharathis songs have featured in Tamil films. Kappalottiya Tamizhan had many songs of this Great National Poet, in the amazing compositions of G.Ramanathan. Among them, one song Chinna kuzhanthaigal pol vilaiyadi, rendered beautifully by P. Suseela, filmed on Savithri & Gemini Ganesh, was only an excerpt of the whole song Kannan en Thozhan written by Bharathiyar. This original work of Bharathiyar was of nine long paras, and would have been very well past the normal duration of a song track in a movie. Therefore, the film makers must have been selective of paras to suit the sequence in the film. Listen to the filmy version of this abridged song in Kappalottiya Thamizhan, nevertheless pleasingly composed to music by the late legend G.Ramanathan. youtu.be/IMrx2uNOnxY
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:56:39 +0000
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