The prime focus over the past week has been Tamil film music and Geeta Dutt. Thanks to many friends across the world, I have managed to lay my hands on about 10 rare Geeta melodies which I am still to enjoy in all serenity. I am looking forward to the weekend to enjoy in peace. The Tamil melodies were courtesy Mr Ali Khan who has a dream collection of old Tamil music. Its almost complete. Its almost impossible that you would turn out without getting your hands on the song you have yearned to have so long. The only problem is that the years past have squeezed the man of most of his enthusiasm. His business of providing song collections is running a loss. He does not receive any support from the film industry to preserve this musical treasure. The govt is not to be trusted - it would relinquish it to some dark room and there it would decay. A few conneisseurs from the US and Canada have offered to buy his entire collection and he is seriously considering doing ! What a huge shame ! Lord, I wish I had some few lakhs with me so that I could buy off his wealth.
Anyway, thanks to him, I managed to listen a wonderful Ghantasala-P.Suseela duet "thoodhu selaayO" from the film "Vaazhkayin otpandam". The song still plays in my ears. There were a number of A.M.Raja duets as well that I got my hands on but well, Ghantasala took the cake.
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