Kannadasan, on his part, keeps toying with the concept of “edhu thevaiyo adhuve dharmam” in increasingly amusing ways.Īnd right there, Rajini gets a little moment to showcase his another avatar, something he had consciously stayed away from, for the past four minutes. Rajini uses the opportunity to flaunt some of his crazy moves, and boy, does he own them! The trumpets and the percussions return for a few seconds, and before you know it, SPB is goofing around, yet again, with the cheeky lyrics. The dialogues are a scream, but one particular part, where the duo walk back to their bike with a super-conceited celebratory gait, will make you laugh your ass out.
KB now intercepts the track with a hilarious sketch, where Rajini and Kalyanam pilfer a bottle of petrol from an unsuspecting passerby’s bike, right under his nose, to fill up their bullet’s dry tank. While SPB goes about this unparalleled pearl of wisdom armed with his trademark chuckle, Rajini plays this on-screen with a one-of-a-kind cocky charm that promptly rubs off on you. Even as he keeps escalating the bounce in his voice, the “Ho Ho” chorus in the background fleshes out the track’s devil-may-care vibes.īut, the song’s signature moment of irreverence happens just after this chorus, with Kannadasan having a field day at the studio. This is the part where SPB truly aces the wacky tone of the composition. Meanwhile, Rajini is rollicking on-screen, doing all kinds of zany steps. The man is set on having some screwball fun, and it readily shows. SPB resumes after a mini-interlude, featuring some exuberant brass. But, the ‘party mood’ explodes like crazy. The backing arrangements are pretty minimal, with some light trumpets, subtle percussions, and a hint of the bass guitar. His vocals, despite the gleeful satire, stay firmly grounded and largely relatable, to an extent that it’s tough not to sing along.
If you have a cynic friend who’s still in doubt about the actor’s charisma, this is the visual that will make him a convert.Īnd when SPB gets the show on the road with “தில்லு முள்ளு தில்லு முள்ளு, உள்ளமெல்லாம் கல்லு முள்ளு,” you can sense this cheerful sparkle in his voice.īut, what sets the track apart from the numerous others in this space is the man’s assiduity in not overselling that buoyancy at any point. This feeling gets intensified when you hear SPB going “லா ல லா… லா ல லா… லா ல லா…லா ல லா… லா ல லா” after ten seconds of the zappy “Thillu Mullu Thillu Mullu” chorus.Īnd exactly coinciding with the delightful hum, the name ‘Rajinikanth’ appears on-screen, in the backdrop of the man doing his swag version of “Endrendrum Punnagai” on the classic Enfield, with Gundu Kalyanam on the pillion for company, albeit for a mere 5 seconds. Sometimes, you wish you could take that kind of unadulterated joy, blow it up into a bubble, and live inside it forever. There’s something about these ‘happy’ songs that you hear in your early days that stays with you till the end of time. On one such occasion, when MSV and Kannadasan decided to whoop up the party to the next level, this cheery beauty called Thillu Mullu Thillu Mullu happened. Ask Alexander Babu.īut, before Rajini became a demigod of sorts, and started spouting random ‘catchy’ vocables in the pallavi, and profound life lessons in the charanams, there was a time when the two could afford to let their hair down and have some madcap fun, like how we normal souls do. Damn, what power in those renditions, man! I guess the amount of energy that the singer has packed into those Superstar intro-songs from the 90s through the 2000s, if bundled together, could easily beat a rocket blast-off. SPB’s opening songs for Rajinikanth are a genre of their own, aren’t they? In fact, they should coin a name for it.
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