Stalin Recalls How Karunanidhi Called Ilayaraaja ‘the Sage Of Music’ – FilmyVoice
When the maestro of the South Indian music world, Ilaiyaraaja, turned 80 on Friday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin was the primary amongst a galaxy of tourists who paid wealthy tributes to the ‘Isaignani’ on his birthday.
Taking to Twitter, Stalin wrote in Tamil: “He doesn’t string musical devices, he caresses our hearts.” The Chief Minister stated that his late father, M Karunanidhi, vastly appreciated the music of Ilayaraja and spoke of him because the ‘Isaignani’, or the sage of music.
South Indian celebrity Kamal Haasan additionally took to Twitter and hailed Ilaiyaraaja because the ‘Emperor of Music’.
Ilaiyaraaja’s music basically mirrors the richness of Tamil tradition. Lots of his followers have even commented on Twitter about how his music expresses a variety of feelings.
The music maestro was born at Pannaipuram village within the Theni district of Tamil Nadu and through his service spanning six a long time (and counting!), he has labored in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi movies.
The music ‘Amma entrazhaikath uyirillaye’, in P. Vasu’s 1992 film ‘Mannan’, on a mom and her love, was probably the greatest compositions by the mastero. ‘Vaa Ponmayile’ in ‘Poonthalir’ is an excellent love music tinged with unhappiness.
The music of Ilaiyaraaja evokes each an elevated spirit and a way of melancholy, giving it an ageless high quality, which is clear in ‘Fashionable Love Chennai’, an anthology of brief movies streaming on Amazon Prime Video since Could 18.
It has 13 tracks composed by the maestro. The anthology has 18 tracks – the remaining 5 have been composed by younger music administrators akin to Yuvan Shankar Raja (Ilaiyaraaja’s extremely proficient son), Sean Roldan and G V Prakash Kumar.
The Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties had been clearly Ilayaraaja’s a long time within the Tamil music business. He wrote the music for greater than 40 movies a yr within the Nineteen Eighties, ending the last decade with 400 movies carrying his credit score line.
Past Tamil cinema, Ilaiyaraaja’s music was an indispensable a part of the success of the Malayalam motion pictures ‘Manasinakkare’, ‘Raasathanthram’ and ‘Pazhasi Raja’. Little surprise then that the maestro has received 5 nationwide awards and host regional and state awards, together with honours bestowed upon him by a number of state governments.
