Actually, it came as a surprise to me to know that Chinnamma gets reused in Tamil only now.
Its opening chorus gave an impression of it being a language song, so I was always thinking that it must have been some originally tamil original song that ARR had reused in Meenakshi. Think about it. ARR - originally Tamil speaking, uses south Indian Chorus in a Hindi original. I don't exactly remember the situation of this song in the film - ok, it was Hyderabad based in part but was there anything that warranted bringing a south Indian flavor. Could be that he had the tune ready for some Tamil film which got shelved and he used it in Meenakshi. Not sure, just guessing. -- V
