In 1992 it was the first time I alone visited chennai. just completed 12th STD. I was walking near Devi theatre, there was a cassette shop playing this Nothing but wind. I enquired about the cassette I think it was Rs.30/- or something I didn't have money as I had only money for return journey to kalpakkam. It was very much attracting me I spend whole time with the shop listening to the music. The shop boy also suggested one more How to name composed by Maestro. It has always been with me, whether sad mood or happiness, I listen to them. It helps me boost my energy. My mother gets angry when I play what do you understand from it. But truly speaking, when any music is played it should enter your heart should have emotional reaction to your heart soul, this composer Ilayaraja has done this for me. Now I am 43years. I can't think a life without him. And there is one Richard Clayderman.
Hi Siva, good to see that you are a Raja veriyan (tamil for fanatic) like me and music runs in your blood. Other than this common raja craze there is another thing that binds us. We also were born around the same time. I will be 43 in January. I too had similar experience like standing in the cassette recording shop or a tailor shop for hours listening to Raja sir's innumerable melodies. All this craze began in the 8os when I first got the taste of Isaignani's music at a radio repair shop in Kerala while on school vacation from Mumbai.
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.
Raja is my life... If feel more happy living with his music than anything else on this earth. And I'm not from 80s .... my Lord penetrated my heart with his pure music, nobody else could do that till today. No musician has ever made people feel so happy with his composition, my Lord Ilayaraja has made. He's a gem in 1000 years, We need to celebrate this genius.
How many phrases, it's not just one tune composition.. here the music is just going on and on.. and touching everything.. seems one track has so many tunes.. He is unbelievable man👏👏👏👏 respect to this composition
Really mozart would have been very happy if he had heard this raja's composition
In 1992 it was the first time I alone visited chennai. just completed 12th STD. I was walking near Devi theatre, there was a cassette shop playing this Nothing but wind. I enquired about the cassette I think it was Rs.30/- or something I didn't have money as I had only money for return journey to kalpakkam. It was very much attracting me I spend whole time with the shop listening to the music. The shop boy also suggested one more How to name composed by Maestro. It has always been with me, whether sad mood or happiness, I listen to them. It helps me boost my energy. My mother gets angry when I play what do you understand from it. But truly speaking, when any music is played it should enter your heart should have emotional reaction to your heart soul, this composer Ilayaraja has done this for me. Now I am 43years. I can't think a life without him. And there is one Richard Clayderman.
and there is one more he is Richardclayderman
Hi Siva, good to see that you are a Raja veriyan (tamil for fanatic) like me and music runs in your blood. Other than this common raja craze there is another thing that binds us. We also were born around the same time. I will be 43 in January. I too had similar experience like standing in the cassette recording shop or a tailor shop for hours listening to Raja sir's innumerable melodies. All this craze began in the 8os when I first got the taste of Isaignani's music at a radio repair shop in Kerala while on school vacation from Mumbai.
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.
Raja is my life... If feel more happy living with his music than anything else on this earth.
And I'm not from 80s .... my Lord penetrated my heart with his pure music, nobody else could do that till today.
No musician has ever made people feel so happy with his composition, my Lord Ilayaraja has made.
He's a gem in 1000 years, We need to celebrate this genius.
Beautiful reminiscences!
WOW!! BLISS-ology! IR music is always to pleasure to listen to on stage as well!
Nothing but wind..... Nonono its nothing but heaven.... Blissful xperience
How many phrases, it's not just one tune composition.. here the music is just going on and on.. and touching everything.. seems one track has so many tunes.. He is unbelievable man👏👏👏👏 respect to this composition
we love you Mozart of Tamilnadu
🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼நவின் உங்கள புகழ்ந்து புகழ்ந்து தமிழில் வார்த்தைத் தட்டுப்பாடே வந்துவிட்டது 😍
A masterpiece. And the Conductor is switching between the batoning & violin playing is effortless and such a hard work by him.
Violin Prabhakar...
hey, this was used in one of the bgms in Geethanjali movie :)
Touching my heart.
The first one was the bgm in the movie Geethanjali
Super marvelous
Super it's my raja sir
People who dislike should mention valid reason for their decision. Just one sane reason.
Genius!!!
Awesome...no words to express...
HATS OFF NAVIN FEEL NO MUCH DIFFERENCE THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK I MEAN HARI JI
Heaven 🎉
wooo.... great.....
😇❤️
This music not human being composing.. Raja sir only do this....
O my god!!!!!!!
🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼
v.s.narasimhan should have been in the middle instead of prabakar.vsn Is a violin legend
Where is VSN here, in this video?