@thozharvaliant Well, true that All India Radio contributed to the increase in popularity. But it's not 1980. It's 1976. And yes, LP records were more popular. Just not as affordable as shown in this video
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Wish they didn’t use AI and tried to retrofit their imaginations. The compositions of Raaja as mentioned by OP was percolated through Radio and not as shown.
AIR and even more Radio Ceylon played Raaja songs and in 1980 it was cassette player
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Raaja’s unpopular Masterpieces - 2.
தேவதை வந்தாள் / ஜல் ஜல் ஜல் சலங்கை குலுங்க - பொண்ணுக்கேத்த புருஷன் (1992)
இசை: இளையராஜா
பாடகர்கள்; ஜெயச்சந்திரன் & ஸ்வர்ணலதா
பாடலாசிரியர்: கங்கை அமரன்
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Day 24: Female solo. There was this genre of songs performed by dancers - song as a camouflage for something happening in the background. I had this specific one as an option for Carnatic - a Panthuvarali based club song :) #ilaiyaraaja
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@Sylvianism Lovely tune. Sounds like idhayame idhayame from Julie Ganaparhi
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Day 19: Kannada :) I am going back to an original score. The sax questions and the violin answers. #Ilaiyaraaja
Movie: Prema Raga Haadu Gelathi (1997)
Director: Sunil Kumar Desai
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@Sylvianism Also, I heard that Ilaiyaraaja himself dislikes categorizing songs into ragams. Probably because he doesn't stick to one ragam in a song.
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@HailBeeGee Apparently, in some fusions they use them together. But the other Vagadeeshwari you can hear is Vennilaavin from Ramana. Also, this article helps - thehindu.com/features/frida…
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Day 12: Carnatic. I repeat there is no one in the world who could fuse Carnatic and Western like #Ilaiyaraaja did. Yet another beautiful fusion in one of the rare ragas - Vagadeeswari.
Movie: Urangatha Ninaivugal
Singer: S Janaki
Lyricist: MG Vallabhan
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@Abhi2kU1 @Sylvianism This is the most comprehensive list I have seen in the past 2 decades. I refer back to it often. It's maintained by Vels from what I know.
ilaiyaragam.blogspot.com/2021/08/ragas-…
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@Sylvianism @HailBeeGee Hi sir, do you have the list of Raja songs based on Ragas, the ones on the net are all incomplete.
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@Sylvianism Thank you so much. I'll dig further. That's a lonely song from Ramana.
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@sooryaca27 Wow, thanks for this rare one.
It's very similar to Pallaviye Saranam, which is in the same ragam.
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Obligated to share one more gem from another unreleased movie - Panchami
Maargazhi maadham munpani velaiyile
Composed in the lilting Khamas ragam
Sung by Janaki ma and the legendary TV Gopalakrishnan (TVG)
Requesting all to close your eyes while playing this on headphones ♥️
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@rajabalanm Thanks for reminding us of this lovely song.
It's it in chala natta ragam? Sounds like it.
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Raaja’s unpopular love song.
மிகப்பெரிய வெற்றி பெற்ற படப் பாடலா இருந்தாலும், படத்துல இல்லாததுனாலயே பிரபலம் ஆகல.
வெண்ணிலவின் பேரை மாற்றவா - ரமணா (2002)
இசை: இளையராஜா
பாடகர்கள்: ஹரிஹரன் & சாதனா சர்கம்
பாடலாசிரியர்: பழனி பாரதி
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@Bubby_bones @ilaiyaraaja Please tell your near and dear family members that you wrote this disrespectful line to the great legend. I hope you learn how to behave in public.
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@ilaiyaraaja ayya namskaram janani padi dengesev hyderabad loo eppudu chennai ki ravala nenu
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@SridharRavi90 @ilaiyaraaja Lovely list. Thanks.
I've listened to most of these at least 20 times this year. It's good to be reminded of them so that we can revisit them often.
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Despite the synthetic mix of Dinasari and the less impactful School and Desiya Thalaivar, 2025 still gave us many beautiful, soul-stirring, purpose-driven songs (and the OST of beautiful breakup) from maestro @ilaiyaraaja.
Happy to share my music recap of the year. 👇
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@sai_balaguru Wow. I've been listening to this for ages and haven't caught this until now. Thanks.
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@sai_balaguru FYI, this post has been viewed by Keeravani garu. And he responds with a namaste.
Nice of you Mr Bala.
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MM Keeravani should be the head of Ilaiyaraaja fan club. Never seen this level of adoration for a fellow contemporary composer.
Also the way he sang and explained the 2nd interlude of Paruvame! 🎼❤️
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The one thing who turns the most lustful emotion into pure divinity, like almighty turning the salt of the sea into rain, that’s Ilaiyaraaja
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@Sylvianism Agreed. I've heard it excessively for a period. This gem is a cut above the rest for recent Ilaiyaraaja gems.
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Yesterday morning, I chose to start with this song while I walked to office and realised how beautiful this interlude is! Sung by Saptaparna Chakraborty and the song is based in Abheri. #Ilaiyaraaja
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@HailBeeGee Yes and hence i say flavours of sreeragam.. manirangu and sreeragam have same notes
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@pnamblat It's not in the same ragam. Ilaiyaragam lists it as Manirangu ragam.
ilaiyaragam.blogspot.com/2021/08/ragas-…
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4. #ilaiyaraaja has another lovely classical melody in this scale - sugaragame .. it has flavours of sreeragam but not fully
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@Suryadev2004 Ilaiyaraaja used this song for the background...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfrdQ…
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