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Year Song Film / Album Language Director/Non-Filmy Album Description Ragam Ref 1984 Yerigindra Dheepam Pudhumai Penn: Tamil: Bharathiraja 1986 Aarum Athu Aazham Illai
The song has been dubbed in many languages. Manoharan did a bilingual Sinhala /Tamil rendition of the song which became quite popular in Tamil Nadu , mainly due to Radio Ceylon . Ilayaraja then made a Tamil version – which had very little to do with the Sinhala version except for the refrain – for the Tamil film Avar Enakke Sontham , sung ...
Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanathesigan in a Dalit family in Pannaipuram in present-day Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India, on 3 June 1943. [13] [14] At the time of joining school, his father, Daniel Ramasamy [15] changed his name from Gnanathesigan [16] to "Rajaiya", and the people in his village called him "Raasayya". [17]
Ilaiyaraaja composed 1 song, Naan Oru Ponnoviyam Kanden. The remaining songs were each composed by 4 other composers, Shankar–Ganesh , K. V. Mahadevan , G. K. Venkatesh and T. R. Pappa . The background score was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
Annakili is the debut soundtrack album composed by Ilaiyaraaja to the 1976 film of the same name. [1] The film is directed by Devaraj–Mohan and written by Panchu Arunachalam from a story by R. Selvaraj, and stars Sivakumar and Sujatha with S. V. Subbaiah, Srikanth, Thengai Srinivasan and Fatafat Jayalaxmi in supporting roles.
In May 2015, the FM radio station Radio City commemorated Ilaiyaraaja's 72nd birthday by broadcasting the composer's songs in a special show titled Raja Rajathan for 91 days. "Enna Satham" was one of the most-requested songs on the show. [18] Nandini Ramnath, writing for Scroll.in, described it as a "love song, lullaby and dirge rolled into one ...
The soundtrack received positive critical reception. The song "Ponmeni Uruguthey" that was picturised on Kamal Haasan and Silk Smitha developed cult status. [14] G. Dhananjayan, in his book The Best of Tamil Cinema called the music "outstanding", [15] further saying that the songs contributed significantly to the success of the film. [16]
He entered the Tamil film industry in the year 1980, with the film Nizhalgal, an Ilaiyaraaja musical, directed by Bharathiraja. During the course of his 40-year film career, he has written over 7,500 songs and poems [ 2 ] which have won him seven National Awards , the most for any Indian lyricist.