what is the speciality if Ilayairaaja's music ?
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For guys like me who are 7os born, he is god. I very clearly remember the first Raja song that I heard. It was simply out of the world. While on vacation from Mumbai to my native place in Kerala, I chanced to hear the song on radio. The opening violin piece just blew me away and also the rich orchestration in the entire song. The magic number was ‘Ay zindagi gale laga le from Sadma (En vaanile anbe vaa for Tamil folks). It was nothing of the kind that had been heard before in Bollywood and was different from what was being dished out by the Bollywood composers (with due respect to RD Burman, Bappi Lahiri and Laxmikant Pyarelal and all other veterans on whose songs I grew up in Mumbai). This one song was a mystery to me and I was hell bent on finding out the composer. So I jotted the first lines of the song on a bus ticket and started my hunt at all cassette selling shops in my native place, but no success.
Finally on reaching Mumbai the first thing I did was search all the major cassette and recording shops and finally lady luck smiled on me and I found the LP of 1980-hit Sadma at one shop. And finally I got to see for the first time the name of mystery composer I was looking for - Illayaraja (and thanks to that one song, his name is etched deep in my heart for ever). But unlike today - when every cacophonic music director (if at all you can call them) has his face pasted all over the site and magazine even before giving a decent hit - those days genius composers used to shy away from publicity. Because of that there were no picture of his on the LP. BUt it had Kamal and Sridevi’s picture. I really felt dejected and cheated that I could not put a face to that great name. But finally I got to see Rajasir’s photo in some malayalam magazine a few years later.
To me he is, he was and will be the greatest composer. Even RD could not give this many hits as Raja sir. During the 80s Rajasir’s Echo music studio was nicknamed melody churning factory where 24/7 new songs were being composed at an unimaginable pace and all of them big hits. The genius was so busy composing tunes that he was not aware most of his songs were being copied in Hindi very religiously by Bollywood composers Anand Milind. They shamelessly copied lot of his songs lock stock and barrel. But they hit a big low when the song stealer brothers lifted one of Rajasir’s Telugu hit song and used it in Beta - Dhak Dhak karne laga.
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