No stopping this evergreen melody
The Hindu
Devadoothar paadi has become a bigger hit four decades after its composition by Ouseppachan
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When Ouseppachan created the first tune of his life, and played it on his violin, he was 17. He never imagined at the time that director Bharathan would make him play it as background music for a film and then ask him to turn it into a song for another.
Neither could he have imagined that the same song would return, some 37 years later, in a new form and become a rage. Devadoothar paadi... is giving the kind of recognition to Ouseppachan that he did not get when the song, from the 1985 film Kathodu Kathoram, first caught the music lover’s attention.
The new version of the song for the film Nna Thaan Case Kodu, featuring Kunchacko Boban’s delectably humorous dance sequence, continues to trend on YouTube five days after it was released.
It has been viewed over 80 lakh times already.
Ouseppachan, a winner of the National and State Film Awards for music, is happy the song, which proved the turning point of his life, has won over a new generation of music fans.
“It feels nice to know that my song has stood the test of time and it is great to find the kind of response the song is generating now,” Ouseppachan told The Hindu over phone. “I could not enjoy the song’s success when it first reached the audience. I was in Chennai then and had no clue about the impact the songs of my debut film (as composer of songs) Kathodu Kathoram made. There was little media attention those days, and of course no social media.”