You’d ask what? We will explain… Kishore Kumar had yoddling as his signature and he used to randomly add yoddles to his songs making them all the more interesting. Secondly, we think, he is the only singer after Kishore Kumar who has his own signature. (Bryan Adams is on the other extreme of the scale with all treble and no bass… just in case you needed this piece of info) All his songs will sound like they are being played on 3D Dolby Surround Sound. And it is our promise that this gentleman’s song will still make it sound like you have bass at its highest. You can try and keep your bass settings to 0 and keep your treble settings at the highest and listen to an SPB song. SPB doesn’t have an ounce of treble in his voice. You can take sometime to re-read the above and try and make sense out of it. And the other 10 never made it to the audiences… So here’s our ode to south-india’s most favourite singer SPB.įirst and foremost SPB is a singer of ALL BASS AND NO TREBLE.
Also being a southie, we really can’t write this man off because 90 out of 100 southie (excluding mallu) songs were sung by SPB. We are here to just unravel our thoughts about this great singer. We suggested this because what we have to say about him is anything but knowledgeable and would add no value to whatever the above people had to say about him. So if there any of you here who think SPB is some sort of chemical compound to cure the allergies of skunk fur, we are sorry to have disappointed you.įirstly, you go and read all that knowledgeable people have to say about SPB out here. So here’s a post about my favourite singer “ S P Balasubramaniam”… also known as SPB to almost all the southies. But as a blog that is of the southie flavour, we really don’t think we are doing too much justice to this wonderful singer. In the early 90s that was the benchmark of an ideal father.We remember that we had made a special mention of SPB in this post. In the romantic drama, which was directed by Shankar, SPB had played the role of an easy-going police constable and a warm and doting father, who gets his son drunk so that he can mend his son’s broken heart. As after this film, he became a go-to actor to play the hero’s father. Kadhalan (1994): It won’t be wrong to say it was a turning point in the acting career of SPB. It is easily one of the sharpest performances by SPB as an actor. Thiruda Thiruda (1993): Who can forget SPB’s performance as CBI officer Lakshmi Narayanan? His effortless screen presence and his ability to naturally add to the underlying humour helped Mani Ratnam’s heist comedy. It is difficult to sperate SPB from his performance in ‘breathless’ song “Mannil Indha Kaadhal”. With maestro Ilaiyaraaja’s compositions, the film’s soundtrack also became a huge hit. The film follows the ensuing family drama when his teenage daughter doesn’t approve of his idea of getting married again. SPB played the role of a widower with an impressive singing talent. Contrary to SPB’s concerns, the film became a huge hit successfully running for 285 days in Tamil Nadu theaters.
But, a determined Vasanth persuaded the singing legend to act in the film.
Breathless song by spb movie#
He told Vasanth that if the movie fails, he has nothing to lose but the young director will be doomed even before he starts. Keladi Kanmani (1990): SPB recommended director Vasanth, who was a longtime assistant of K Balachander, not to do his debut movie with him. Here is a list of films in which SPB delivered as an actor: