[Lillie_Steins]

Songs in shankar and Manirathnam films have excellent choreography. All songs in 'Mudalvan' and 'alai Payuthe' stand out, in my opinion.

If I may add on irritating choreography as well, I simply hate those Bharathi Raaja songs with white angels dancing around the couples!! How unnatural!!

Having group dancers around is an important phenomenon in Tamil films nowadays. But barathiraja type angels are irritating I agree I have a number of favourites when it comes to choreography. I usually enjoy songs without group dancers around. Of recent movies I loved the song sequence of 'ding dong kOvil maNi' in 'Ji'. Very pleasant , soothing and different. Let me try to give some of my favourites.

1.Chippi irukkuthu muththu irukkuthu - vaRumaiyin niRam sivappu - kamal/sridevi

2. poongkaatRu un pEr solla kEttEnE inRu - vetri vizha - Kamal/amala

3. vaanam enna keezhirukku boomi enna mEl irukku - kamal/prabhu - vetRi vizha (prabhu with his bulky body does a superb jot almost equal to Kamal)

4. nee oru kaadhal sangeetham - naayagan - kamal/saranya

5. anthi mazhai mEgam thanga mazhai thoovum - kamal and group- naayagan - excellent work by camera man P C Sriram

6. kaattukuyilu manasukuLLa paattukkenRum panjamilla - rajini/mammootty - thaLapathy

7. adi raakkammA kaiyya thattu - Rajini/shobana and co - thaLapathy

8. Ooooo lallallaa - kajol/nasar/prabhudeva - minsara kanavu - the song that makes me dance every time I see .

9. ninnukkOri varNam - amala/prabhu - agni natchathiram

10. rambambam aarambam - kamal/kushboo - mmk raajan

11. santhana thenRalai - ajith/thabu and co - kanukondEn2

12. sollaamal thottuchchellum thenRal - ajith - deena ( ajith lip-sync is great here)

13. sOnA ei sOnA I love you love you da - ajith/simran/jothika - vaali

14. uppu karuvaadu oora vechcha sORu - arjun/manisha koirala - mudhalvan - (again the camera work was excellent here.)

15 pachchai niRamE pachai niRamE - maadavan/shalini - alaipAyuthE ( superb cinematography)

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