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Ilaiyaraaja is an Indian film composer who works in the South Indian cinema predominantly in Tamil since mid 1970s. Widely regarded as one of the the greatest Indian music composers of all time, Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer, and songwriter. He has composed more than 6500 songs and provided film scores for more than 1000 films, also being acclaimed for his exceptional background scores.
Singers S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra and S. Janaki have sung more of his songs than any other singers. He integrated folk—in Tamil—and introduced western musical sensibilities into the South Indian musical mainstream. Ilaiyaraja is also known for creating music by fusing symphonic orchestration with traditional Indian instrumentation, often performed by Budapest Symphony Orchestra. In 1993 he organised a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and thus became the First Indian to compose a full symphony, with Ravi Shankar being the only other Indian to do so. He is also the first Asian to compose a full symphony performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has won five Indian National Film Awards (the highest film honor in India); three for Best Music Direction and two for Best Background Score. In 2010 he has received Padma Bhushan, awarded by the Government of India.
In the 2000s, he composed a variety of non-film music, including religious and devotional songs, an oratorio, and world music. He is usually referred to by the title Isaignani (English: Musical Genius), or as The Maestro. Ilaiyaraja is a gold medalist in classical guitar from Trinity College of Music, London. In 2003, according to an international poll conducted by BBC, more than half-a million people from 165 countries voted his composition Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu from the 1991 film Thalapathi as the fourth in the world's top 10 most popular songs of all time. He was also nominated in the Best Indian album Music Awards category at US based Just Plain Folks Music Organization, which is the largest grassroots music organization in the world, and stood third for his "Music Journey: Live in Italy". In 2012 he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for his creative and experimental works in music field. In 2014 he has been chosen for his outstanding contribution to the Indian film music and was awarded the SIES Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati National Eminence award. In 2015, he was also honoured with the Centenary Award for lifetime achievement at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) at Panaji, Goa. On December 31, 2015, he was nominated by the Kerala Government for Nishagandi Puraskaram, the top award conferred by the Kerala Government's Tourism Ministry, for his artistic excellence and contributions to the Indian film industry.
Popular world cinema portal Taste of Cinema placed Ilaiyaraja at the 9th position in its list of 25 greatest film composers in the cinema history thus becoming the only Indian to feature in that list. In a poll conducted by CNN-IBN celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema in 2013, Ilaiyaraaja was voted as the greatest music composer of India with a maximum of 49%.
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13 February 2004
The film is a biographical sketch of the former Chief Minister of the then Madras State and the All-India Congress Committee secretary and a respected national figure.
14 January 2001
A man values his best friend more than anything else in the world. One day he confesses a dark secret from their childhood to his wife, which is overheard by another.
23 May 2024
Three young men plan a heist but find the bank already hijacked by elderly men. The public supports the elderly, exposing corruption among bank officials and igniting a wave of community fervor.
14 April 1994
The hero falls in love with a girl and learns music for her. The girl's house is destroyed in a cyclone and the hero believes the girl is dead.
30 June 1997
Chinnabbayi is drama based movie in which, Sundarayya (Venkatesh), the orphan, is the care taker of l
14 November 2001
Nandha returns after serving his term for killing his father. Although he killed him to save his mother, she does not forgive him.
24 June 1993
Rajini is working as a coolie in a factory. He is asked by three brothers to act as a foreign-returned rich man the heir of a property.
12 June 1987
Balaraman, an honest policeman manages to capture an international criminal, Michael Raj. However, Radha, a simple lady believes Balaraman killed her brother Raghu.
25 January 1982
Olangal is a 1982 Indian film in Malayalam, directed by Balu Mahendra.[2] The film's plot is inspired from novel Man, Woman and Child by Erich Segal.
14 April 1993
Pop singer Inderjeet is the main suspect after his female fans are killed by a serial killer. Divya, whose sister was a dancer in his troupe and the first target, comes to the city to find the killer.
09 October 2015
Rudraba, daughter of Ganapatideva, the emperor of the Kakatiya dynasty, was officially designated a son through the ancient Putrika ceremony and given the name Rudradeva so that she could succeed her father after his death.
05 November 1991
Surya, a courageous man who was raised in the slums, fights for the rights of the poor and befriends Deva, who hires him as his commander and changes his life completely.
06 March 1981
Raja, an atheist, is constantly at a war of wits with his brother who is a firm devotee of a god man.
14 January 2004
Angela, a civil advocate interviewing inmates at the Madras Central Prison for a documentary on the death penalty meets Virumaandi and Kothaala, who are sentenced to death and life respectively for their roles in perpetrating the massacre of 24 people during a brutal clash between feuding villages.
22 December 1978
A leading film actress is controlled by her producer who even refuses to let her get married. Therefore, she seeks the help of a lawyer to get rid of her producer.
28 January 2005
Achuvinte Amma is a movie that tells the deep rooted relation between a mother, Vanaja and a daughter Achu.
10 December 2021
The lives of six individuals across the city change just as the city is reeling under floods. Will they all make it safely to the other side?
15 January 1995
Arun, a married man, has an affair with Priya as he dislikes his wife Leelavathi, who is plain-looking and overweight.
24 October 1994
A very efficient cop, whose entire family has served India at some time, must coax a terrorist to reveal information.
14 April 1991
Prabhakaran, an Indian Forest Services officer, is sent to Sathyamangalam to nab the notorious smuggler, Veerabhadran.
21 March 2015
A corporate man who sets out on a journey of self-discovery and heads to the Himalayas.
09 March 1979
Rosapoo Ravikaikari (1979) was Sivakumar’s 100th film. He debuted in Tamil with A. C. Tirulokchandar’s Kaakum Karangal (1965).
14 August 1982
Ponni wants to live a lavish life but gets married to her cousin Kumaran. Her love for worldly pleasures makes her abandon Kumaran and her daughter for a richer man.
17 February 1989
Kannan, a teenager, falls in love with his uncle's daughter, Radhika, but things turn upside down when her grandmother disapproves of their relationship.
29 May 1986
Vikram, a cop who is mourning the death of his wife, is assigned to retrieve a missile. He is aided by a highly educated engineer Preethi, who holds the knowledge to disarm the weapon, in his mission.
07 July 1983
When the sole person to inherit the family wealth is missing, her grandmother desperately searches for her.
01 March 1990
A wicked man separates a set of quadruplets after their birth and one of them ends up with their biological father, while the other three find new homes.
23 February 2007
A village tough finally succumbs to the unconditional love of his angelic cousin, but his romance faces insurmountable challenges, including family opposition and his own delinquent personality.
01 May 1986
The film was launched by C. V. Sridhar in 1980 as a Cinemascope venture and was then titled as Sakthi.
04 June 1980
This is the story of a street dancer, a policeman, and a thief - and the latter two are brothers
15 August 1981
A criminal, Chelladurai, frames the innocent Dharmalingam for a crime which leads to the latter being jailed.
10 January 1986
Businessman Gopinath abandons Shanti, his first love, to marry a rich heiress. Later, Bharath, Gopinath and Shanti's illegitimate son, seeks revenge from him for the injustice meted out to his mother.
25 December 1998
Vishwa spends his time hanging out with Anandham to avoid his mother, who always quarrels with his dad.
19 October 1979
Rajinikanth catches forest animals through traps and sells them. Rajni's mother will tell him to stop his business, but he will not listen.
30 April 1999
Prakash and Murthy have been thick friends ever since Prakash took Murthy into his house - against the wishes of his own parents - after his father killed Murthy's mother in an accident.
16 July 1987
Rajalakshmi raises Ramu, an orphan, as her own son who in turn always protects his foster family. However, he must stop his malicious foster brothers from marrying off their real sister to a gangster.
21 October 1987
Suhasini, a divorced nurse, is the sole wage earner of her large family and navigates various struggles in her life.
20 August 1993
Valli returns to her village after studying for 15 years in the city. Her cousin celebrates her arrival to the city.
15 August 1981
The story revolves around Chakravarthy (Older Rajini) who is a successful textile businessman in Coimbatore.
12 July 1990
After a few years, Chitra learns that her child, who was believed to be dead, is alive but is suffering from a mental illness.
03 September 2004
An autorickshaw driver bumps into a beautiful young woman at a coffee shop, who seems to be smitten by him.
14 January 1992
The village head is a man who sticks to honesty while making judgements. However, when he falls prey to a conspiracy, he bravely fights to ensure that justice prevails in his village.
07 March 1980
The son of a wealthy man suffers from a condition whereby he cannot stand the sight of fire as he has a violent outburst every time.
30 July 1988
Soora Samhaaram is a 1988 Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the role of police officer, ACP Athi Veerapandiyan.
23 October 1984
Madan, a disco dancer, finds his life partner in Kalpana, a classical dancer. When Madan starts getting strange visions, he is advised to go on a trip where he learns about his tormented past.
05 June 1981
A fisherman who is in love with a woman in his village is presumed dead after he fails to return from sea on one of his trips.
17 March 1989
Arivu and Shanthi are in love, but when Arivu's father goes to Shanthi's father with a marriage proposal, he is humiliated and dies of shock.
13 April 1988
Guru and Babu meet a man who has been framed for murder. To help him and find the real culprit, Guru fractures his hand so that his death sentence can be delayed.
05 March 1993
Vadivelu, who belongs to a small rural community and leads a carefree existence with his friends, but also takes a strong stand against injustice and exploitation.
14 January 1992
Circumstances force the union leader of a factory to marry his own boss, a rich and arrogant lady who has ulterior motives.
16 April 1992
Bharath is framed for the murder of his elder brother by Gangadharan, a powerful businessman. In jail, he befriends three convicts who help him escape and take revenge against Gangadharan.
04 November 2002
Ramana decides to abolish corruption once for all with the help of his students who are now working in various government offices.
16 October 2009
Set in the backdrop of the seventeenth century, the royal family of Kottayam is ruled by Pazhassi. The British government begins to impose heavy taxes on the locals in the Thalassery region of Kerala.
06 February 2009
This surreal Tamil entry tells the story of Rudran, who is abandoned as a child in Kasi and grows up to be a mystic who indulges in strange rituals and believes that he has power over life, death and rebirth.
02 October 1986
Pursha is searching for his mother. He meets JK, who has the information on his mother but he first wants Pursha to finish off his rivals.
11 July 1982
Anand is a motocycle champion for six years in a row. Winning the championship brings him the introduction of Uma, the daughter of Thilakavathy - a haughty, rich woman.
