After the secret area on Route 133

#7 - A song that reminds you of a certain event

Back when I was 13 or something, I used to be the authority, even if I do say so myself, on Pokemon in my school. I knew every single thing about every one of all (then) 150 pokemon that anyone around did and perhaps some things that they did not. So, you see, the removal of Cartoon Network from regular cable TV was a cause of great despair to me and the lot of us who followed it closer than an arrest does Tamilnadu state elections.

Once the cartoon series was gone, all we had were the video games. Hours and hours of button-pressing witnessed me playing Fire Red, Crystal, Emerald and a few other Pokemon games, mostly on a couple of Game Boy emulators on my computer. As this was around the time (in class 9) I also picked up a liking for old Tamil songs, many of which are among my all-time favourites even today, the electronically generated background scores of these games were often replaced by classics of A.M.Raja, P.B.Sreenivas and others of that time.

To make it short, the following song reminds me of searching for the Regi-pokemon across Hoenn in Pokemon Emerald, if you know what I mean.

"Vanna Thamizh Pennoruthi", from Paavai Vilakku, sung by C.S.Jayaraman (and some bits in the beginning by Sivaji Ganesan himself)

(The picture in the video is of C.S.Jayaraman.)