Lost and Found - A long lost tune.
The year was 1967! I was studying in the 4th Year of Engineering ( It used to be a 5 year integrated course at that time) at Jodhpur. It was a requirement of the course that we were to spend our summer vacation time as a trainee in any reputed engineering firm. I applied to ITI Bangalore as I had my uncle's place to stay. Duration of the training was about three months. At the ITI factory , during the lunch period of 30 minutes, instrumental version of popular film songs were played on their PA system in the canteen as well as in the work spots. These tunes used to be from Tamil, Kannada and many other languages. I used to find one of the tunes quite catchy and appealing which I still remember. It was from a Tamil Movie , that much I knew. It had a notable feature that in the midway there was a change of pitch, which was a bit unusual in the Indian context. About a fortnight back I remembered that tune again and got an urge to identify and listen to it. But...