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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 66 – Sandhaikku vandha Kili

Sandhaikku Vandha Kili is your agmark Illayaraja Themmangu song and the orchestration takes you right to the village festival. Even the thavil notes don’t change much throughout the song only in the second charanam when the song switches to Kummi it slightly takes a turn but comes back to the same note.

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 65 – Thaanandhana Kummi kotti

Athisaya Piravi is one of those rare fantasy films that came in Tamil during those days and it is a remake of a Telugu film Yamudiki Mogudu which had Chiranjeevi helming the lead role. Telugu Directors are always good with adding fantasy elements into their stories while S.P. Muthraman adapted to tamil brilliantly.

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 64 – Maanin Iru Kangal

Maanin Iru Kangal is one of those mellifluous Illayaraja songs that doesn’t come across as a song from a Rajnikanth film but it is. This song is composed in the Mayamalawagowla raga which is also called a Morning raga. This raga is said to evoke peace that creates a soothing effect hence can be sung anytime.

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 63 – Iru Vizhiyin

Siva directed by Ameerjan is one of the big-budget movies from the Director. Unlike other movies back then this movie had Rajni and Raguvaran playing friends and foes. I loved this film when I was a kid and again this is another banger of an album from Illayaraja for Thalaivar.

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 62 – Un Nenja Thottu Sollu

Raajathi Raja is one of the widely popular albums of Thalaivar and Maestro so popular that they sold 22000 cassettes back then. While many must have listened to all the songs from this film, this song might have slipped out because the song was not part of the film but only the album and went unnoticed.

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 61 – Naarkalikku Sanda podum

An interesting way to Introduce Rajni in the film. Unlike today, where we see their legs, head, shoulder, Mustache, and finally the face, but back then it wasn’t the case and I believe this trend started with Suresh Krishna’s Baasha. Naarkalikku Sanda podum is the political song that teases

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 60 – VUzhaipaali Illadha

I especially chose this song because it was one of my favorites when I was a kid. Whenever this song gets played on TV or Radio I used to dance like Rajni it seems and it still is one of my favourites. Vaali brilliantly laces the song with the typical Rajni message but also does justice to the title and the Coolies. Mano simply elevates the song up a notch.

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 59 – Maamanukku Mylaporeu thaan

Maamanukku Mylaporu thaan is a fun song and through this song, I got to know some of the areas in Chennai like Mylapore, Tambaram, Avadi, Mannadi, etc., With Malaysia Vasudevan’s mimicry voices this got even more enjoyable.

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 58 – Vaangada Vaanga

Vaangada Vaanga is yet another typical Rajni Intro song with all the elements to it, from giving a message to how good a man he is and whatnot. Maaveeran (1986) is an official remake of the Hindi film Mard and also has two distinct specialties. This is the first film to record all the six-song tracks using the stereophonic sound and the first Tamil film which was completely shot in the 70mm Film format.

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Echoes of the Maestro – Song 57 – Rajavukku Raja Naan da

Rajavukku Raja Naan da can be attributed to your typical Rajni Intro song which it is fun to watch and laced with a life message. I remember watching this song on a Music channel when I was a kid and was amusing to see the car driving on top of buildings when I rewatch this song now all of them are iconic buildings of Chennai