Captivating melodies seemed to flow out of his imagination in matchless profusion in the colourful extravaganza ‘Pattanathil Bhootham’ (1967). But even a sleeper hit like ‘Kairasi’ did not wake up Govardhanam’s luck as an individual composer though he was going great guns assisting the Viswanathan Ramamurthy duo in their most fecund and magical years.
Even MSV was inspired by ‘Kaathirundhen Kaathirundhen’ to hone a melody of the same hue in ‘Athai Madi Methai Adi’. ‘Kairasi’ (1960) brought out the best in Govardhanam, with its limpid melodies brimming forth sweetly with lyrical intimations of love and romance. The Sudarsanam-Govardhanam duo were known to score the background music for alternate reels of AVM’s film projects aiming at fast completion, but films like ‘Jathakam’ (1953) and ‘Orey Vazhi’ (1959) saw the younger brother wielding the musical baton on his own. After this, during a song recording, Nadaswaram exponent, Tiruvavadudurai Rajarathinam had played his beloved ‘todi’ to the boy and been astounded by the latter’s swiftness in scanning the raga’s notational contours.
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It was while accompanying his elder brother to a recording, that 10-year-old Govardhanam’s natural proclivity of deciphering music had suddenly burst out in full bloom. Govardhanam’s elder brother, R Sudarshanam had joined Gubbi Veeranna’s troupe and then worked in film music orchestras before helming one himself in AVM Studio and its gramophone record wing, Saraswathi Stores. Govardhanam’s father had been an accountant in a grocery store, though he was a musician too. Looks apart, the fact remains that Govardhanam was a fiend with notes - he had only to give ear to a piece of music before he poured out the notes in all their profusion.
"One could mistake him for an accountant in a provision store," MSV once remarked. Some, like sound engineer Sampath who was his colleague in AVM Studio, put down the scarceness of opportunities to plain ill luck, while his musical colleague and competitor MSV blamed it on his plain appearance. R Govardhanam was neither an M S Viswanathan nor a K V Mahadevan in prolificacy of melodies, but it was the tacit conviction among Tamil film music connoisseurs that he was an equally gifted composer who came up with entrancing songs.
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