Echoes of the Maestro – Song 83 – Navvindi Malle Chendu

Abhilasha is the first combination of Illayaraja and Chiranjeevi. This movie is based on a novel by the same name by legendary Telugu writer Yendamuri Veerendranath, exploring the theme of capital punishment. The novel seems to have taken inspiration from Two American films The Man Who Dared (1946) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956).

Echoes of the Maestro – Song 82 – Kiliye Kiliye

Okay, this is one of those Malayalam songs that became a trend across the globe and never in my wildest dreams I thought it was composed by Raaja himself. I mean I understand old Tamil compositions finding their way to the New generation and becoming a hit but this is a surprise for me and I’m glad that it was composed by Raaja.

Echoes of the Maestro – Song 81 – Santhoshakke

Geetha (1981) film by Shankar Nag has a popular song album I guess as mentioned in my previous posts many songs from this album has been reused by Illayaraja himself for other languages (mostly Tamil though). Despite him reusing the original tunes he changed the base and we saw the difference in Kelade Nimageega and Devadhai Ilam Devi