

It is now well-known that when Venkatesh was making music for Rajkumar-starrer Sampattige Saval (1974), Ilaiyaraaja pitched for the actor as singer, and the result was the wildly successful ‘Yaare koogaadali.’ He speaks Kannada, thanks perhaps to his long association with G K Venkatesh, composer of hit Kannada songs. It was dominated by Kannada songs, with a sprinkling of Tamil, Telugu and Hindi numbers.Īt many points, Ilaiyaraaja explained the context of his songs. The concert began at 7 pm, about an hour late, and went on for a little over three hours. The distance did not deter his fans: they turned up in large numbers, braving the jams along the way. Titled Pallavi Anupallavi, after one of his hit films, the show was held at the Kempegowda International Airport concert arena, a good 40 km from the heart of the city. Congratulations for his recent achievement of 25 golden years in cinema.Songs from the 1980s received the loudest applause at the Ilaiyaraaja concert in Bengaluru on Saturday.

His involvement with World filmmakers and musicians are also special to his name. The Mozart of Madras is the only person can do a Traditional music of different states and still make it to all type of audiences. His works of Sufi qawwali are one of the important explorations and very popular among the fans. The First person to bring out Rap, Pop, Blues, Electronica, and much more in India. His mix of Hindustani classical with electronica has its own flavors. He is the pioneer of Integrating the Indian classical music with the Electronic and world music orchestral arranging. He was the one who has given a special status to Indian music which helped the International audiences to understand and listen to Indian musical system. Of course, this genius is still doing it for the last 25 years. Though it may sound simple but to give a meaning of it in real is highly unimaginable. 'New' 'Fresh' 'Different' 'Distinct' 'Typical' 'Unique' are the very common words for his every single piece of music.

He is one of our Identity cards for Tamil Nadu sometimes for the whole India too. Rahman is the most popular and the influential music director in India. If there is a statistics on every Child Birth for an hour in India and there is also a statistics of his song play for every minute in Tamil Nadu. He is also holding a name that "Uncredited person of every Family card" in Tamil Nadu. There is always a resemblance of his music notes with most of our Tamil music directors which are either they get inspired by his music or he has achieved everything.
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An approximate calculation: A single movie have at least 6 songs multiplies with 50 movies gives 300 songs (least) per year + BGM of 50 movies which defines his pure legacy.

There is also record in mid 80's, for continuous three years, he has produced music for more than 50 movies per year. The Industry believes that nobody has the dare to break this record forever. This BGM scoring genius has recorded around 6000 songs (including BGM) for 1000 movies in 40 years. He is the pioneer of Symphony Orchestra with Traditional Indian instrumentation. Isaignani Illayaraja sir is our Father of Tamil Modern Music system.
