Kannada song: Anisuthide from Mungaru Male



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The song that I am posting today is a Kannada song. Earlier I had posted one Kannada song and later I took it off as I thought there were some serious flaws. A couple of weeks back when Ramya asked me if I would be interested in singing a Kannada song, I thought I would give it a try. Thanks a bunch to you Ramya, for sending me this beautiful song with its karaoke and lyrics!

I haven't heard much Kannada songs and this one is really really beautiful. Also I thank Rama maam who spent her valuable time to correct the diction. I know it still has some flaws on diction and I take the whole responsibility of it because I'm such a laaaazy guy when it comes to re-recording.

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Here is the song from the super hit film Mungaru Male, originally sung by Sonu Nigam. Let me know what you guys think. Dedicating this song to Rama maam and Ramya.

Movie: Mungaru Male
Singer: Sonu Nigam
Music: Mano Murthy
Lyrics: Jayanth Kaykani
Language: Kannada

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Etho Vaarmukilin - Pookkaalam Varavaayi

Here is a song requested by my long time friend Linu aka Lindsie. This song is one of my favorite songs sung by Venugopal and a melodious composition, as usual, by the one and only, Johnson. Listen to it and lemme know your comments.

Song: Etho Vaarmukilin
Movie: Pookkaalam Varavaayi
Music: Ouseppachan
Originally sung by: G. Venugopal
Sung by: Jo
Requested by: Lindsie
Language: Malayalam

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Roji P Thomas is one of the first few people whom I made friends with in a short span of time after I joined Envestnet. He is a very down-to-earth person, a techie who is an SQL server MVP and whose tech blog has been chosen amongst the top 20 tech blogs in the Microsoft blog stars contest and above all, a very good friend. Roji is going to join Microsoft from 25th of this month. Here is wishing him all the very best in the days to come and posting his song request Neela Jalaasayathil. Thanks to Thahseen for the karaoke track.


Song: Neela jalaasayathil
Music: A T Ummar
Originally sung by: K J Yesudas
Sung by: Jo
Requested by: Roji Thomas
Language: Malayalam

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Moovanthi Thaazhvarayil - Kanmadam

Moovanthi thaazhvarayil venthurukum vin sooryan...
Munnaazhi chenkalanaay ninnulayil veezhumpol...

One of the most beautiful songs penned by Girish Puthenchery. And when the lyrics were given life by the magicians like Raveendran master and Yesudas, a beautiful song was born. Here is the song requested by another colleague and friend Sitara Anilal - Moovanthi thaazhvarayil from the movie Kanmadam.

Song: Moovanthi thaazhvarayil
Movie: Kanmadam (1998)
Music: Raveendran
Lyrics: Girish Puthenchery
Originally sung by: K J Yesudas
Sung by: Jo
Requested by: Sitara Anilal
Language: Malayalam

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Sundaree - Saalini Ente Koottukari

Dedicating this song to one of the friendliest people on earth, my colleague and good friend Manju V Nair who requested this song. Thanks to her, I could listen this song after a long time. Manju was asking me to sing this one for a long time, but I was waiting for the karaoke track. Anyways, here it is finally.

I will try and complete other pending song requests in the coming weeks.


Song: Nin thumpu kettiyitta
Movie: Shalini ente koottukari
Lyrics: M D Rajendran
Music: G Devarajan
Originally sung by: K J Yesudas
Sung by: Jo
Requested by: Manju V Nair

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It's been a few days since I sang something. Today, when I came back to the lodge room after work I looked into the recent song requests and there was this song that my friend and colleague Sijo asked me to sing long back. I've been waiting to get the karaoke track of this song, but had no luck with that. So I decided to post an un-plugged version of the song.

This song has some beautiful lines by one of the greatest poets/lyricists of our time, Sri. Yusuf Ali Kecheri and music given by Sri. Perumbavoor G Raveendranath, who is also famous for composing beautiful songs in Malayalam.

Song: Perariyaathoru
Movie: Sneham
Music: Perumbavoor G Raveendranath
Lyrics: Yusuf Ali Kecheri
Originally sung by: K J Yesudas
Sung by: Jo
Requested by: Sijo Jose T

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This is a song I love so much. I also like the movie a lot. I love this song for it's lyrics, music and the good old golden voice of KJY.

Song: Unnikale oru kadha parayaam
Movie: Unnikale oru kadha parayaam
Music: ?
Originally sung by: K J Yesudas
Sung by: Jo

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I heard this song for the first time when Suji suggested to sing. I heard Oru Poovithalil from Agnidevan, but never heard this one. I was wondering how I could miss this beautiful song all this time. And then I posted it in the blog which eventually lead to meet one of the greatest music directors Malayalam had, Sri. M G Radhakrishnan, in person. Meeting MGR and his wonderful family is one of the best things Internet gave me.

Recently, I got the karaoke track for this song and I recorded it again. Listen to it and let me know how it sounds.

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Here is one of my favorite songs from Raveendran which is beautifully rendered by Yesudas. Kalippaattamaay is yet another melodious number from the evergreen team of late Raveendran and K J Yesudas.

Song: Kalippaattamaay
Song: Kalippaattam
Music: Raveendran
Originally sung by: K. J. Yesudas
Sung by: Jo
Language: Malayalam

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First of all, wishing all my Malayali friends and visitors of this blog all the happiness and prosperity of this new year - Happy Vishu!!!

Here is a song which me and Divya were planning to sing for a long time. Finally we got the karaoke and here it is - Munpe Vaa from Jillunu Oru Kaadhal. I was totally blown away when I heard Divya's rendition on this because you can hardly differentiate it from the original version sung by my favorite Shreya Ghoshal. I sincerely hope she gets a good break in the music industry pretty soon which she truly deserves.

Let us know how it sounds.

Movie: Jillunu Oru Kaadhal
Music: A R Rahman
Originally sung by: Shreya Ghoshal & Naresh Iyer
Sung by: Divya S Menon & Jo
Language: Tamil

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It is the Holy weekend for Christians all over the world. I am posting one of my favorite Christian devotionals sung by K. J. Yesudas - En mano phalakangalil. I do not have any info on this song except the singer's name. Those who know other details like music director, movie/album name etc, please do share.

Song: En mano phalakangalil
Originally sung by: K. J. Yesudas
Sung by: Jo
Language: Malayalam

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Song: Pookkaalam vannu
Movie: Godfather
Originally sung by: Unnimenon, Chithra
Sung by: Jo
Music: Berny-Ignatius
Language: Malayalam

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This is the third time that I'm composing music to Preethy's lyrics. First one was Ooyalaadunni in BlogSwara V2 and second one is almost getting ready for BlogSwara V3 in Thahseen's voice. This time it's a poetry that I just sang with a tune came to my mind. I added some backing vocals in the last part because I felt those four lines are the most powerful lines in this poem. I feel this is the song of the oppressed.

Click here to read the poem in Malayalam at Preethy's blog.

Poem: Padiyiranguvaan
Written by: Preethy
Composed & sung by: Jo

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Song: iLam poomkaattinodum
Movie: Poomukhapadiyil Ninneyum Kaathu
Music: ??
Originally sung by: K. J. Yesudas, S. Janaki
Sung by: Jo
Backing vocals: Roshni
Language: Malayalam

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Song: Enthe Kannanu
Movie: Photographer
Music: Johnson
Lyrics: Kaithapram
Originally sung by: K. J. Yesudas
Sung by: Jo

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Kannukku Mai Azhagu from Puthiya Mugam

Movie: Puthiya Mugam
Music: A. R. Rahman
Originally sung by: Unnimenon
Sung by: Jo
Dedicated to: Deepa
Language: Tamil

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Song: Sree Raagamo
Movie: Pavithram
Music: Sarath
Originally sung by: K. J. Yesudas
Sung by: Jo
Language: Malayalam

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Song: Ennodenthinee
Movie: kaLiyaattam
Lyrics & music: Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri
Originally sung by: K. J Yesudas (Female version of this song sung by Bhavana Radhakrishnan won a state award for the best female playback singer)
Sung by: Jo
Language: Malayalam

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Song: aarO viral meeTTi
Movie: pRaNaya vaRNangaL~
Music: Vidyasagar
Originally sung by: K. J. Yesudas
Sung by: Jo
Language: Malayalam

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Song: Yamunai Aatrile
Movie: Dalapathi
Music: Ilaiyaraja
Sung by: Jo
Language: Tamil

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