There are many memorable songs from the 1944 classic, Haridas. One of my favorites from the movie is the Annaiyum Thanthaiyum Thaane, sung by M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavatar. I have only listened to the song before, never watched it. But I chanced to find it on Youtube today. Here it is.
Did you notice something funny in the song? At around 1:15 (just after the line “சேயின் கடன் அன்னை தொண்டு…”), you see Haridas’ (MKT) mother sweeping the front portion of her house with a broom. Haridas sees this, and (since this is a song about serving one’s parents), drops what he is doing currently (collecting flowers and logs), gets the broom from his mother, and starts sweeping in the opposite direction i.e. towards the house, instead of away from it. (You can say that MKT thus invented the “reverse sweep”.)
Despite this obvious gaffe, the song is delectable.
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Tags: Annaiyum Thanthaiyum, Haridas, M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavatar, MKT
ROTFL about the reverse sweep!
u r totally mistaken. While mother is sweeping from left to right, MKT is doing it from right to left and not towards the home…hey, funny, u r able to enjoy modern day jimmicks of the movies like one vijayakant fighting 100sylvester stallones but u r not able to see the realism in these movies….
Mr. Duraiswamy, we could argue to death which direction the home is. But here is the point, and you have said it yourself. The mother sweeps in one direction, and MKT sweeps the dust back in the other direction, i.e. he is sweeping a clean place and moving to that place the dust that was just removed from there. Either you have never swept a floor or never have observed someone doing so or your house is filthy.
If you wanted to call me a fool, you could do so directly. But please do not insult MKT by comparing him with Vijayakanth. Gabtun, as he is fondly known in these and many other pages, is in a league of his own in such type of comedy. If your prior point about directions made me doubt your intelligence, this comparison effectively settles it.
And realism? May I ask you, esteemed Sir, do you know what “realism” means? MKT sweeps the ground as if the ground would break if he applied an iota more pressure. Where is the realism here?
Finally, I have already called a movie a classic (ref: line 1). I have called the song a favorite of mine (ref: lines 1 & 2), and have called it delectable (ref: last line). Pray what blinds your eye from reading all that or impedes your mind from absorbing the simple truth that I love this song? And pray, even otherwise, why do you have to engage in an ad hominem as if the only way you could praise this song or the singer or the movie is by putting me down?
And “jimmicks”? Which school did you go to?