Interlude in Saroja samaan nikaalo (Chennai 600028)

A very interesting case of interlude inspiration that mandates a mid-week update! Anantha of Superstarksa blog has made a fantastic find on how Yuvan Shankar Raja could possibly be a huge Spiderman fanboy! Remember the theme music of the original cartoon Spiderman series? The same one we used to wait desperately on weekend noons on Doordarshan, just before heading to start the cricket match! Ah, who can forget that? Now, how would you react if I say that the same theme tune has been used in Yuvan's latest, 'Chennai 6000028'? Hard to believe, huh? But yes, it has been used - if I may add, very very intelligently, right upto the choice of instrument, as an interlude, in the track, 'Saroja saamaan nikaalo' (more on this song's title - in the trivia!). Very smart, Yuvan. No, I'm not blaming him this time - this is perhaps the real way to pay homage, I guess! Incidentally, many others have done it, with this theme, according to Wikipedia!

Listen to Saroja saamaan nikalo first interlude | Spiderman cartoon theme

Trivia on Spiderman cartoon theme: A spidey fan site helps us with the details of the cartoon theme's credits - Words by Paul Francis Webster and music by Bob Harris, Stu Phillips and D Kapross. Also, the mention of Charlie Mingus' 1959 boogie track, 'Boogie stop shuffle' as the possible inspiration for the cartoon theme seems well grounded too! Listen to Boogie stop shuffle (Charlie Mingus). Watch the Spiderman cartoon opening video here in YouTube!

Trivia on the words 'Saroja saamaan nikaalo'!: I recall reading Chennai 6000028's director Venkat Prabhu talking about where he got these words. Director Shankar's Arjun starrer Mudhalvan (Nayak, in Hindi) had a scene, where, after becoming the 'one-day-CM', one of the chores that Arjun attends to is to weed out subletting on government-allotted quarters for slum dwellers. They had incidentally sublet their quarters since it fetches better returns. One of the doors Arjun knocks with the entire media in tow is a 'Sat(e)' (Chennai parlance for any North Indian businessman/ moneylender - usually a Marwadi!). After the initial resistance the sat(e) agrees to move out and yells out to his wife (Sushma, not Saroja, however! - Source: Triviapettai), 'Sushma saara samaan nikaalo' (In existential terms, it means, "Saroja, get our worldly belongings out!")