Regarding TULU language film hero SUMAN's mother tongue is TULU. Vijay V.R Tanikella mailto:vijay@icodeindia.soft.net >-----Original Message----- >From: Rajasekhar Velamuri [SMTP:inside94@email.msn.com] >Sent: Saturday, February 21, 1998 11:45 PM >To: ghanTasAla abhimAna sangham >Subject: Misc. > >Sri Parigi Sreedhar gAru in an earlier email wrote: > >> the so called Indian film Critics feel that South Indian Cinema >> is only Tamil, which is absolutely wrong. South Indian Cinema >> has four major film producing languages like Tamil,Telugu, >> Kannada and Malayalam. Amongst these Telugu film produced >> max. no of films per year till recently. > >You are absolutely right Sreedhar gAru, many people (including some telugu >brothers and sisters) believe Indian cinema means only "Bollywood," >consisting of Hindi films, and if at all there is any one who thinks of >South Indian Cinema it is Tamil cinema. Not until recently many a folks from >Northern India believe/knew/aware that there exists at least four major >languages south of vindhyAs, let alone major cultures. Whatever others say, >whatever his greatness is, whatever his drawbacks are, if I have to pick a >single person who made the people of India realize that there is a language >called telugu, a culture called Andhra, he is NTR. As long as I am alive I >will salute this telugu biDDa for that. There might be others who struggled >for telugus but, in my view....... > >How many of our telugu folks knew that tyAgarAja kritis are in telugu? > >(Please excuse me for writing some personal views of mine not related to >ghanTasAla, or if I have offended anyone on this list. If any one wants to >write to me about this please send me a personal email at >mailto:inside94@email.msn.com) > >Coming to another issue, number of songs sung, though Sreenivas disagrees >with me and presents calculations to support his point, I have a gut feeling >that ghanTasAla did sing over 10,000 songs/padyams. >With each passing day my feeling is being reinforced. Hopefully, I will be >able to come up with information in the future to support my view. Recently, >I came to know that ghanTasAla also sang in tulu language. tulu language if >I am right (forgive me if I am wrong), is only a spoken language on the >borders of karnataka and AP. I did not know that there are movies in that >language, any way if I get hold of them I will play it on amaravANi. > >Before I close this mail, I have another query, Does any one have the >original record (not the cassette released by HMV) for the movie Srii >kRishNAvataram. If I am right, in the movie the padyam "nandakumArA >yuddhamuna nA rathamuna" is (sung by arjuna in the movie), playback by J.V. >rAghavulu or some one else in the pAnpu scene. Recently, while I am going >through my old cassettes I realized that I have ghanTasAla's version for >this. The tune is identical to the one in movie, and the poems next to this >poem on the cassette are sung by ghanTasAla and the tunes are identical. > >Coming to the poems by ghanTasAla from the movie, SObha, I will play it on >amaravANi in the near future. > >Does any one know the movie names for the following songs: > >1. EnADu modaliDitivO O prabhU EnATikayye nii nATaka samApti >(chandrahAram???) >2. kavi kalamunaku, Silpi vuliki, kalakunchaku ee mUTiki mummATiki >3. kalalOna nA tAta kanipinchinADu (tALi boTTu???) > >Regards, >-rAja >(rAjaSEKar vElamUri) >-- >mailto:inside94@email.msn.com >http://members.tripod.com/~rvelamuri > > > > >