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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 24/365 – Chatriyan Theme – Remembering Subhash
The Tamil cinema world forgets people, quickly. While India was mourning for Balamuralikrishna, Tamil movies lost a talented writer-director, K Subhash. K Subhash (born as Shankar Krishnan) started...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 25/365 – Maalai Karukkaiyil
After a couple of tributes, I have a simple duet for you (or is it?) – Needhiyin Marupakkam is from SA Chandrasekar stable. The path to Vijayakanth’s stardom and in turn SA Chandrasekar’s were because...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 26/365 – Kaalan Kaathale
Thooyavan was a famous writer and producer during the late 70s and 80s. He wrote novels, short stories and also produced more than 80 movies in Tamil. His notable productions were with Rajnikanth...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 27/365 – Then Sumantha Mullaithana
Song Then Sumantha Mullaithana Movie Kairasikkaran (1984) Director SSK Shankar Singer SP Balasubramaniam Actors Prabhu, Radha, Silk Smitha Lyricist Vairamuthu … The post Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 28/365 – Enna Sugamana
Garjanai has an interesting history. The movie was originally made in Malayalam with Jayan (Krishnan Nair) in the lead. Jayan passed away in a helicopter crash while shooting for Kollikalam. The movie...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 29/365 – Kungumam Manjalukku
Liyakat Ali Khan is known for his fiery dialogues in movies like Pulan Visaranai, Captain Prabhakaran and Makkal Aatchi. He also directed Vijayakanth in a number of films, the most notable being Ezhai...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 30/365 – Paadi Vaa Thendrale
Mudivalla Aarambam was directed by N.Moideen with Sarath Babu, Jothi and Rajesh in the lead. This song has interesting guitar progressions and flute interludes. Wish we had a good recording but this...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 31/365 – Vaan Megam
I know the rains had a bad impact last year in Chennai. But people have to welcome rains in a bad monsoon year. We are having the worst monsoon year ever for TN in 150 years. So let’s welcome the …...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 32/365 – Inge Iraivan
Sir, I Love You is a 1991 movie directed by GN Rangarajan. He assisted SP Muthuraman and his first movie was Kalyanaraman with Kamal Hassan. His best was Karaiyellam Shenbagapoo. Sir, I Love you had...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 33/365 – Paradise – Non-Film Albums Special
One of the problems with fans like us is that we tend to ignore the non-film albums of the film music composers. Not so surprisingly, these albums allow brilliant music composers like Ilaiyaaraja to...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 34/365 – Non-Film Albums Special – Swappnam
It’s so usual for western composers to create music for their broadway musicals and Grammy has a separate category for such albums. The flip side of having film based musical culture is that we fail...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 35/365 – India 24 Hours Theme
Ilaiyaraaja has this notorious luck – some of his brilliant compositions never made it to the screen or public viewing. The most important one is his Symphonic Work in 5 movements with the Royal...
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Projekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 36/365 – Remembering Jayalalitha – Thavikuthu...
Puratchi Thalaivi J Jayalalitha passed away yesterday and her acting paved her way to the leader she became. Nadhiyai Thedi Vandha Kadal was the last Tamil movie that she acted as a heroine and the...
View ArticleProjekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 37/365 – Non-Film Albums Special – Raajavin...
The article you are reading is from www.sylvianism.com Ilaiyaraaja is an ardent Ramana Maharishi devotee and frequent visitor of Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai. You can find him at Arunachalaeswarar...
View ArticleProjekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 38/365 – Putrilval Aravum Anjaen
The article you are reading is from www.sylvianism.com When you have a favourite album, you always a favourite song in it that you go back every time you feel happy or sad. Putrilval Aravum Anjaen is...
View ArticleProjekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 39/365 – Non-Film Albums Special – Nothing...
The article you are reading is from www.sylvianism.com Nothing But Wind is a second crossover album that was released in 1988. An album that showcases the natural elements and sounds was performed by...
View ArticleProjekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 40/365 – Non-Film Albums Special – And we had...
The article you are reading is from www.sylvianism.com Vardha created havoc in Chennai and hence I was not able to post any songs for you. While Chennai is getting back on its feet, I am here to soothe...
View ArticleProjekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 41/365 – Non-Film Albums Special –...
The article you are reading is from www.sylvianism.com Let me end the non-film albums special on a high note. I am going to feature an album that has been lost in the mirage of many other albums....
View ArticleMovie Review – Chennai 600028 Second Innings – Home Ground Advantage
The article you are reading is from www.sylvianism.com The most common thing you see with directors when they fail with a couple of movies, they go back to their basics. It works with a few directors...
View ArticleProjekt Ilaiyaraaja Season II – 42/365 – Non – Tamil Songs – Ee Neelima Than...
The article you are reading is from www.sylvianism.com Disclaimer: My repertoire of Ilaiyaraaja’s music is concentrated around Tamil film music and albums. I am exploring his music from other languages...
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