Valentine Special-Share your songs of love..

Yours songs and dedications this Valentine's Day..Songs that tenderly touch a raw nerve ...puts you in the mood for love...lingers on for the whole day...casts a spell on you..and keeps you yearning for more...Our South Indian cine music has thousands of such songs..

Share YOUR favorite songs of love (3-4) this Valentine's Day and tell us why you are bewitched by them...Happy Valentine's Day!

1. Valayosai Movie-Sathya Music-Ilayaraja Singers-SPB, Lata M
   This song captures the thrills and adrenalin rushes of love..superb picturization..honest and eloquent..has a new freshness to it even if you hear it a hundred times...
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-dqX6Fggqk&feature=channel_page
   
   
2. Azhage Azhagu Movie-Raaja Parvai Music-Ilayaraja Singer-KJJ
   Awesome combination of sangeetam and sahityam..not to mention flawless acting by Kamal and Madhavi..true testament to the axiom, "Love is Blind"..because the interpretation are infinite if you are blind...
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDGR9XD6jM
   
   
3. S/Jathi Malli Poocharame Movie-Azhagan Music-Maragathamani Singer: SPB
   King of handsome and Queen of beauty unite in this classic song from the movie aptly titled Azhagan. Isn't life and everything around you so beautiful when you are in love? Who said red is the color of love..after seeing the picturization of this song, I would say the new color of love is WHITE :)
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmj4GejQ0w
   
   
4. Ayengar Veetu Azhagae Movie-Anniyan Music- Harris Jayaraj- Singers: Hariharan, Harini
   Brilliance of Hariharan and Harini and their impeccable expressions gives this song a big thumbs up. Though the lyrical quality is not stellar, fusion by Harris Jayaraj makes this a winner!
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX7OMsrIOko
   
   
5. Nilave Mugam Kaatu Movie-Yejaman Music-Ilayaraja Singers: SPB, S. Janaki
   If you are lucky to find true love, then your lover is your friend, mother, sibling, child and guide. Ilayaraja teams with SPB and Janaki amma to give us this gem of a song...head over heels in love with this one!
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ROrcvK2S98
   
   
6. Chentarmizhi Poonthenmozhi-Movie-Perummazhakalam Music-M. Jayachandran- Singers: Madhu Balakrishnan, K.S. Chitra
   Madhu Balakrishnan is a singer to watch out for..He has taken this sensual Sahana piece to great heights. (Also loved his rendition of Ethilum Ingu Iruppan from the movie Bharati...you must hear that..but I digress...)
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcgk6ctUpAo
   
   
7. Sundari Neeyum Movie-Michael..Rajan Music-Ilayaraja Singers: Kamal, S. Janaki
   Often termed as "our song" Santu and I never get enough of this one...has all the charms, naughtiness and cute wonder of a typical Palakkad Iyer pair in love...
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zed9Kve-b6I&feature=related

(For my selected list of 38 songs visit:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DB18A4EFC506B8F7)

Miss you

6:30 am: a warm, chubby and cozy hand hugs me tight..I sleepily turn around..Kunju has sneaked into our room and is getting her "5 more minutes"
7:15 am: Kunju is waiting for the school bus, blissfully humming "Bhavayami Raghuramam"
7:30 am: Chai with Santuma in the recliner catching the morning news (Chai tastes extra great because he made it )
7:45 am: Tour of the garden ...4-5 pink peonies are in bloom, 4 buds on the red rose, a few day lillies, and (still) no activity on the dahlias. The lawn was nicely mowed last evening..it has been a week without rain and I wish for some...
8:00 am: Miraculously, a brief, light shower, that was equivalent to 2 hours of watering using the sprinkler. The lawn looks rejuvenated instantaneously. The Sun creeps out again causing the leaf blades to glitter like diamonds...I go to the patio to sit outside..the cushions are wet on my lungi. I don't mind...2 red birds are chasing each other...another chanaka pakshi is stealing our pine straw mulch for its nest...
Life is good, I miss you, wish you could be here to share this morning with me...
9:00 am: Check emails and have Cereal/Fruit with Santuma, he gives me his usual lecture of the chores he wants me to do by the time he is back (go to bank, get the car registration renewed, put the photos in the album etc)..I just smile..poor thing cannot help being jealous at my freedom...
9:15 am: I rummage the fridge and mix up a yogurt, rice flour and kasturi manjal face mask and head upstairs...A huge heap of laundry snarls at me saying FOLD ME.
I sigh, did I say I miss you, Mom?