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How Ilaiyaraaja Reshaped His Music With Modern Directors

  • Posted on June 2, 2021June 4, 2021
  • by Ashutosh Mohan
The music in Illaiyaraaja’s collaborations with directors like Bala, Balki, Kamal Haasan, Prakash Raj and Mysskin isn’t about making independent hits, which could bring audiences to the theatre. This is music that captures abstract ideas in a story and makes them evocative by converting them to sounds
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Govind Vasantha on his favourite Raaja songs

  • Posted on April 28, 2021April 29, 2021
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
In terms of the melody, it’s surely ‘Thendral Vanthu’, says the composer about his favourite Illaiyaraaja song
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Vijay Became A Star Exactly 25 Years Ago, With ‘Poove Unakkaga’

  • Posted on January 12, 2021
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
From the perspective of pop-culture history, it’s fun to see a very “normal” Vijay, a young man looking for a job, a young man we see on the 18S bus, a young man who’s a “soft romantic hero
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When Vetrimaaran Is Asked To Choose Between The Music Of Illaiyaraaja And AR Rahman

  • Posted on May 24, 2020May 29, 2020
  • by Team FC
“Our generation grew up listening to Illaiyaraaja songs”, says the Asuran movie director
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Southern Lights: Ilaiyaraaja 75. His Lesser-known Songs For Tamil Heroes

  • Posted on February 2, 2019May 9, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
If you take Rajinikanth films, you’ve probably heard the ‘Guru Sishyan’ numbers, or the ones from ‘Veera’. But ‘Sodi kili enge’? Read on.
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“It Will Be A Huge Flop”. 20 Fascinating Facts About The Making Of Manichit...

  • Posted on December 24, 2018May 15, 2020
  • by Neelima Menon
A disappointed Illaiyaraaja, Shobana the editor and an angry KPAC Lalitha…25 years after the release of the classic, here are facets about the film you probably didn’t know
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Meet Yuvan Shankar Raja, the Illaiyaraaja fan

  • Posted on October 13, 2018May 12, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
We ask the hit composer to pick favourites from among his father’s compositions in various genres
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