Global Journal of Human-Social Science, A: Arts and Humanities, Volume 22 Issue 5
agreement by merely refusing to pronounce the name of God. For example, the story i.e Kathavarayan, I have no faith in the tantric scenes in the movies. My-own uncle was a tantric, and I know the nuances of tantric. You cannot produce mango through tantric tactics, and that was the reason why I did not wish to propagate such a sophistry to the masses in the movie. I rank as the big actor with huge fan followers, many of whom are children, and they follow me as their hero, I do not wish to instill wrong notions in their minds. Since they are the future wealth of the nation, I refrain from acting in such movies though I recorded my protest in a very polite manner. Take another movie by name Lalithangi , it was designed in such a way that the hero hates the entire women-hood in the society as prostitutes. Finally, he falls in love with a dancer and changes his views. I never liked the idea of criticizing the women hood in such a degrading manner; moreover, I did not like the climax scene therefore I refused to act in that movie. Question: If you change the story of the movie as you like, what will happen to the producer who aresupposed to invest quantum of money? Answer: Nothing will happen; the movies that were released after my suggestions were run well. For example, the various scenes that were changed in accordance with my suggestions in the movie Madurai Veeran, attained success (this movie ran in 40 theatres in Tamil Nadu for 100 days). In the movie, Malaikkallan also the producer accepted my suggestions. The movie, Alibaba also my suggestions were well taken. It is my request, that people should not come to a conclusion that I convey my political ideologies in the movies. I am an artist, and I am duty bound to express my views and the producers are availing my expertise. The irrelevant scenes that were taken with a view to make profit by cheating the public is curtailed (12). Such a determined efforts put in by Dr.MGR made his films ever green for example, the Hindu Tamil daily dated 9 th July 2019, reported that “54 years after the release of the movie “Ayirathil Oruvan”. It might have been 39 years since his last film released and 30 years since he died. But the legacy of the legend, M.G.Ramachandran, more so identified with the famous three letters ‘MGR’, lives on and doesn’t seem to be coming to an end anytime soon. She further goes to emphatically say that “MGR’sspectacular rise in movies should be attributed to his wisdom for carefully ascertaining the right script for himself. The lead protagonist was always portrayed as an epitome of virtue who raises his voice for the downtrodden and ensures that justice prevails in the end. The scripts were message oriented for the society, at the same time; they had a mother-son relationship, brother-sister bonding, philosophical songs apart from sensuous heroines, who would romance MGR in colourful costumes during scintillating duets”. The researchers go one step further to add that MGR scans through the lyrics of the songs and sits with the lyric writers and brings the best out from them and that is the reason why his film songs contain full of socially acclaimed content. He also sits with the composer of music to finalize the tunes for his film songs. The realistic fight scenes wherein MGR shows his powers of wrist by means of sward, silambam and stic - rolling, fist by means of hitting the opponent with full force to make them roll on the floor etc. (13). To justify the above concepts the following facts was published in the magazines and other evidences are elicited below: The weekly Tamil Magazine, “KUMUDAM” had published several articles under the title of “Ayirathil Oruvan (one in thousand)” in the memory of Bharat Ratna Dr. Maruthur Gopala Menon Ramachandran’s (Dr. MGR) centenary celebrations, wherein, celebrities who had associated with Dr. MGR, shared their experiences. It becomes important to refer Kavinger (Poet) Na Muthulingam who recorded his perception about Dr. MGR. Na Muthulingam, a popular lyricist of Tamil Cinema, had written, more than 1500 film songs including number of songs for MGR films. Muthulingam states “like Purachithalaivar (i.e. Revolutionary Leader “Dr. MGR”) his songs are also immortal”. It is Dr. MGR, who gave importance to aesthetics to tunes, and construction of new and meaningful words in the songs, and that is the reason why Dr. MGR film songs stands tall; generation after generation. He further states, that it was very difficult to get MGR’s concurrence and finalize songs in his movies.Some songs were accepted by him on a single day. At the same time, it took moths to get the songs accepted by Dr. MGR. Muthulingam, further states that he wrote three songs for MGR’s movie “Madhuraiyai Meeta Sundara Pandian” and it took months for him to get consent from Dr. MGR. Again in his essay (chapter), in the book Edited by Sabitha Joseph (14). Muthulingam reiterates that - as MGR wanted to introduce good ideas in his film songs that will serve useful purpose to his fans – he paid enormous attention, to the lyrics of his film songs. Muthulingam quotes “after MGR became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, the daily Washington Post exclaimed that it was because of popularity gained through his philosophical songs MGR was able to snatch such a victory (15). Muthulingam further states, that MGR used to advise him in the following manner (in the words of MGR): “Even when you write songs relating to sad news for the movies, you should not use incomplete sentences”. When Pattukottaiar writes, sometimes, incomplete sentences would occur (that will make the concept of the song in- complete) however, it will not happen to Kannadasan. Therefore, mix Pattukottai and Kannadasan in your writings’. In the movie “Indrupol Endrum Valka (live like today for ever)” the original first song was different and what had taken place was different. The first song was “pathai mari © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue V Version I 43 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 A A Study on Bharat Ratna Dr.M.G.Ramachandran’s Philosophical Film Songs that Contain the Ideas of Socialistic and Communistic Ideas Which can be Compared More Specifically with the Communist Manifesto as Propounded by Karl Marx and Engels – An Academic Comparative Study, using a Novel Methodology
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