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In 2010, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour in India and the Padma Vibhushan in 2018, the second-highest civilian award by the government of India. In 2012, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to practising artists, for his creative and experimental works in the music field.

Ilaiyaraaja is a recipient of five National Film Awards-three for Best Music Direction and two for Best Background Score. He also composed Thiruvasagam in Symphony (2006), the first Indian oratorio.

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He was one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Tamil film music, and the first South Asian to compose a full symphony. In 1986, he was the first Indian composer to record film songs through computer for Tamil films for Vikram. He is known for integrating Indian folk music and traditional Indian instrumentation with western classical music techniques. Ilaiyaraaja is nicknamed 'Isaignani' (musical genius) and is often referred to as ' Maestro', amongst others by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London. He has composed more than 7,000 songs, provided film scores for more than 1,400 movies and performed in more than 20,000 concerts. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian music composers, he is often credited for introducing Western musical sensibilities in the South Indian film musical mainstream. Gnanathesikan (born 2 June 1943), known as Ilaiyaraaja, is an Indian film composer, conductor-arranger, singer and lyricist who works in the Indian film industry, predominantly in Tamil. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.R.

This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. Soon, she and her family members flew down to Chennai and visited Sivaji Ganesan and Lata tied him a ‘rakhi’ and thus began their ‘friendship forever’ and this is well known, he said. Ram Kumar recalled that his father Ganesan loved Lata Mangeshkar’s songs and ‘Aye mere watan ke logon’ and ‘Raina beeti jaye’ were among the favourite songs of both his father and him, he said.Īsked on the starting point of the friendship between Lata and Ganesan, Bharat said it all began after the iconic singer watched Ganesan’s ‘Paava Mannippu’ (1961) and Lata and her siblings found that the actor had a resemblance to their father, Deenanath Mangeshkar. Lata Mangeshkar is a family friend and she remained in touch with them all along, he told reporters here.Įvery year, she used to send gifts for Deepavali to the family and similarly, his father had the practise of sending ‘Seervarisai’ (term to refer traditional gifts given to a sister by a brother) to her, Kumar, a film producer said.Įven after his father’s death and according to his wishes, the bond between the two families continued, he said. Her collaboration with ace music composer A R Rahman is noteworthy.” On Lata’s bond with Sivaji Ganesan and his family, the legendary yesteryear star’s son Ram Kumar said the iconic singer regarded his father as her own elder brother. After that, she did not sing for any Tamil flick. So, the role of the maestro Ilayaraja is unmissable.

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“The Engirundho Azhaikkum song in the 1988 movie En Jeevan Paduthu was also a melody and music was again by Ilayaraja.

“The lyrics was by Gangai Amaran and the Aararo song was such a fantastic melody and it was Lata Mangeshkar’s first song in Tamil.” While Sivaji Ganesan’s family was instrumental in making her sing for a Tamil song for the first time, Ilayaraja played a key role in making it happen, he said. “Her first song in a Tamil movie happened in 1987 and it was Sivaji Production’s Prabhu starrer film Anand and music was composed by Ilayaraja,” Bharat said. Though Lata Mangeshkar had sung Tamil songs right from the 1950s these were for a couple of Tamil remakes of Hindi films and were not much noticed, the film critic said. SPB brilliantly equalled her and the marvelous music composition by Ilayaraja and great choice of smart, rhyming words by ace lyricist Vaali and the energy shown by Kamal Haasan and Amala on screen has all made the ‘Valayosai’ song an ‘everlasting duet,’ he said.

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