MAESTRO ILAYARAJA MOVIE
In his first movie Annakili, Tamil film producer Panchu Arunachalam added "Ilaiya" (Ilaiya means younger in Tamil language) as prefix in his name Raaja and he named as "Ilaiyaraaja" because in the 1970s there was one more music director A. Ilaiyaraaja joined Dhanraj Master as a student to learn musical instruments and the master renamed and called him as just "Raaja". When he joined the school his father changed his name as "Rajaiya" but his village people used to call him as "Raasayya". Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanathesikan in 1943 in a normal middle-class family in Pannaipuram, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India. In a poll conducted by CNN-IBN celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema in 2013, Ilaiyaraaja was voted as the greatest music composer of India with a maximum of 49%. On December 31, 2015, he was nominated by the Kerala Government for Nishagandi Puraskaram, the top award conferred by the Kerala Government's Tourism Ministry, for his artistic excellence and contributions to the Indian film industry. In 2015, he was also honoured with the Centenary Award for lifetime achievement at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) at Panaji, Goa. In 2003, according to an international poll conducted by BBC, more than half-a million people from 165 countries voted his composition Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu from the 1991 film Thalapathi as fourth in the world's top 10 most popular songs of all time. Ilaiyaraja is a gold medalist in classical guitar from Trinity College of Music, London. He is usually referred to by the title Isaignani (English: Musical Genius), or as The Maestro. In 2010 he has received Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India. He has won five Indian National Film Awards (the highest film honor in India) three for Best Music Direction and two for Best Background Score.
MAESTRO ILAYARAJA FULL
He is also the first Asian to compose a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Ilayaraaja introduced Western type of music into the Tamil cinema.He is also known for creating music by fusing symphonic orchestration with traditional Indian instrumentation.In 1993 he organised a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and thus became the First Indian to compose a full symphony, with Ravi Shankar being the only other Indian to do so. He has composed more than 6000 songs and provided film music or movie soundtrack for more than 1000 films, particularly being famous for his background music. Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer, and songwriter. He did and from then on became ‘Maestro’ Ilayaraja.Ilayaraaja is a famous film composer and singer in South Indian cinema especially in Tamil cinema. He was commissioned to write a Symphony for them. Countrymen ignored him but the world didn’t: Raja became the first Asian to perform in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. Rehman’s feet now (he is also from Chennai). Both albums are defacto additions to a fan’s collection.Īfter achieving dizzying heights in movie music and making the day for so many music directors from up north (like Anand-Milind who became famous by giving hits that were lifts from Raja’s compositions ‘Dak dak karne laga’ from Beta is one such hit.) However, the Hindi movie makers shunned him I don’t know why.
He released two instrumental albums ‘Nothing but wind’ and ‘How to name it’. I don’t know how amazing is that, but what’s amazing is the fact that he used to ‘write’ score for five or six songs under a few hours. He ‘writes’ the score without playing a note. There are 100s more… I can write all night, but I think for the uninitiated this is motivation enough. Ilayaraja was unleashing his repertoire in electronic music at that time and yet… the music was nothing less that soul stirring. God, the more I dug the more I unearthed.Īnother movie that will stay dear to me -this time it was Tamil- is Punnagai Mannan. ‘Aamani Paadave’ is my all time fav Telugu song. It was like Potato chips: you just can’t eat one.
I can’t remember anyone who’d watched that movie only once. Everyone around me at that time was occupied in falling in love. The music -I am pretty sure about it- probably increased the average number of people falling in love in a month, to Himalayan proportions. In 1988 Manirathnam’s Gitanjali was released. And how his music can connect and make you laugh or cry or reflect based on the mood of the song.
How it can make being broken hearted a trip.
I am going to touch upon how Ilayaraja’s music moves me: how Ilayaraja’s music can make you fall in love. Enough has been said about his genius, divine touch, and the prolific number of songs he’d created. All those who grew up in South-India during the early 80s to the late 90s are bound to have been touched by the musical magic of Ilayaraja.
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