One Song at a Time - 60 : Ennodenthinee Pinakkam
(Kaithapram Damodaran Namboodri) Sahana is one of those ragas which has so much inherent classicism in it that it is very difficult to mould it to the needs to film music. K V Mahadevan did a wonderful job of morphing Sahana enough to fit it into film music with the 'parthen sirithen' song in 'Veera Abhimanyu'. It has since then remained the gold standard as far as Sahana in Tamil / Telugu film music. Later, Deva did a take on Sahana in 'Avvai Shanmugi'. The song was 'rukku rukku rukku'. A fun song but a cliched Sahana. There are traces of Sahana in Rahman's "kannamoochi enada" but there are too many ragas mixed in that song, not just Sahana. Raja, surprisingly, hasn't given any major song in Sahana. I hear that in some ragamalika song of his, Sahana appears and as background music in 'Unnal Mudiyum Thambi' but no full song in this raga. Another song by Rahman, 'anbe sugama' from 'Parthale Paravasam' als...