1978 - 2. SINDHU NADI POOVE
2) SINDHU NADI POOVE (MOVIE: SHANKAR SALIM SIMON, RELEASE DATE: 10 Feb, MUSIC: MS Viswanathan, LYRICS: Kannadasan) Madras was a simple city back then, the smallest and the most unpretentious of the four Indian metros. It had a casual air about itself. It never wanted to be somebody else. People were laidback, traffic was sparse, shops opened and closed early, mamas and mamis wore veshtis and saris to get about. It was Calcutta without the roshgollah and the pretension. There was very limited scope for entertainment in the city back then. There were the movies, which Madras made plenty of; even more than Bombay. There were music concerts, often movie-related, and then the Carnatic variety which attracted well-heeled enthusiasts to the exclusive sabhas. There was theater that produced many a doyen, but were gradually being outstripped by comic plays. But the crown jewel of the city, for leisure and “breeze-catching” (you needed torrents of it in hot and muggy Madras), was the M