The things we come across during our mid & late adoloscent age stays with us for long. Whether it is the college friends who stay together for life, which is a proved fact or the dream girls are those whom we come across the late teens, we always hold the things that come in our late teens special. Today when I wanted to hear some Telugu songs, I unconsciously built a playlist in Youtube that had the songs which I heard & loved in my first year of Engineering College. It was one of the best times of Telugu movies, M.M Keeravani was at his peak of the career, Soundarya ruled the roost, Simran was getting popular in Andhra and above all Ram Gopal Varma was in terrific form making Tollywood a known name across the country.
These 10 songs are on my top of the mind, when I thought of my college days.
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1. Song: Maa Perati Jaamchettu:-
Film: Pelli Sandadi
Music: M.M Keeravani
This movie was inspired by the Hindi's wedding hit "Hum Aapke Hai Kaun" and this love story had an elaborate wedding portions weaved into the narrative. First I saw the "Soundarya Lahari.." song in the 'Midnight Masala', but when I saw this song in Gemini Top 10, I fell in love with this song instantly. Thankfully the cassette was available in Salem and it was played non-stop for few days. When it was announced that this movie is being remade in Tamil as "Ninaithein Vandhaay" with Vijay, I was bit worried about how this song will be in Tamil. I was relieved when the same tune was retained in Tamil too.
2. Song: Koosthandi
Film: Maina (Unreleased)
Music: M.M Keeravani
I loved this song immediately when I watched it in the "Bioscope" - a Trailor programme in Gemini TV. Since I couldn't read Telugu at that time, I wrote down the name in a paper and when I went to college, I asked a Telugu friend what it is. He said it is "Maina" and asked me how I knew it. I said that it was from a movie name and asked him to bring that cassette when he came from home after a vacation. I had that cassette for a while and my classmate Maheshkumar took it from me but hadn't returned it. It was a low budget movie with newcomers which was not at all released. So I couldn't find its cassette when I went to Tirupati. After a very long time I was able to get some songs from that movie in CoolToad. So this song is bit special for me.
3. Song: Yemma Kopama
Film: Anaganaga Oka Roju
Music: Sri Kommineni
Ram Gopal Varma had just created a screen Goddess named Urmila Matondkar and she scorched the screen in Rangeela. Ramu made her next movie in Telugu with her and I asked my Andhra classmate "Who is that lucky bearded guy acting with Urmila?". He said that this guy is called JD. When I saw his another movie "Gulabi" first, I came to know that he is Chakravarthy. I fell in love with Hyderabad with this movie and it was a sort of dream destination for me for a while. I saw this movie in Tamil as "Andru oru naal" twice with my friends in Salem and Cuddalore.
