Choosing to explore Illayaraja songs from different languages and not writing about Jotheyali will be the biggest sins. One of the popular songs that was loved across languages and remade in Tamil and Hindi as far as I know but not sure about other languages. I’ll loop in all the versions for you to enjoy this beautiful song.

Most importantly all the songs from this album became a blockbuster and have been reused or remixed in many Kannada films even now. Mani Ratnam’s 1969 Movie Geetanjali is reported to have borrowed the lead character’s role from this movie.

Song – 76

Song: Jotheyali
Movie: Geetha
Singers: SPB and S. Janaki
Lyricist: Chi. Udaya Shankar
Actors: Shankar Nag, Akshatha Rao, C.S. Aswath, Sowcar Janaki, Ramesh Bhat and others
Director: Shankar Nag