Invincible Music Composer

 Invincible Music Composer

I am taking this opportunity to write a few words about Ilayaraaja, a great south Indian music composer. He excelled all boundaries with his film music and there are innumerable fans across all India. Of course, he has given concerts on the prestigious platforms like Albert hall in London. At the same time, he has given sizzling music to the films, prominently Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies. And few Hindi movies like Sadma. He has great fanbase almost in every south Indian state. It's very rare having such fanbase as a popular film hero usually does have. 

What makes him so special ? With what quality of music composition he gained that iconic position..? Well, his forte is experimentation, newness, variety whatever you say. Ilayaraaja brought that with his very first film, In Tamil Annakili and in Telugu Bhadrakali. In fact, I started listening to Tamil movie songs for enjoying his way of composition. Whatever the instrument, that sounds with his own signature. Orchestration fills with experimentation. Chorus in the songs is heavenly. I can give you number of examples but one post is not sufficient for it only.

In his 45 years of film music life, composed 7000 songs. Folk , classical,  Western and many other traditions have happily blended in his compositions. In my opinion, In Indian film music, his entry influenced many music directors. We better compare it as after and before Ilayaraaja. I won't give the account of my favorite songs here. Because there is nothing I dislike whatever come from him. Anyway I will post a video of some of his ever lasting compositions.

----- Murthy Kvvs

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