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Music maestro Ilayaraaja with daughter Bhavatharini. | Photo Credit: PTI Music legend Ilaiyaraaja will organise an all-girls orchestra in memory of his daughter, Bhavatharini. The playback singer passed away on January 26, 2024. The orchestra has been named ‘Bhavatha Girls Orchestra’. The music maestro has invited samples from aspiring musicians for the event. “If you…
A still from Good Bad Ugly Producers of Ajith Kumar-starrer Good Bad Ugly (GBU) have urged the Madras High Court to vacate an interim injunction granted by it on September 8, 2025, restraining the production firm from exhibiting, screening, selling, distributing, publishing, or broadcasting the movie on any platform along with three songs composed by…
Ilaiyaraaja. File | Photo Credit: L. Srinivasan Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Monday (June 2, 2025) extended birthday wishes to music director and ‘Maestro’ Ilaiyaraaja, who was born on June 3, 1943. In his birthday message, Mr. Stalin said he was one of the crores of…
Ilaiyaraaja was learning western music from Dhanraj Master while the latter was staying in a lodge in Chennai’s Luz Corner. I belong to the generation that grew up listening to the songs of Ilaiyaraaja, probably the first music director whose fame overshadowed even actors with a mass fan following. This was evident in any cinema…
Ilaiyaraaja; a still from ‘Good Bad Ugly’ | Photo Credit: Ragu R/The Hindu and Special Arrangement Veteran music composer Ilaiyaraaja on Tuesday (April 15) sent a legal notice to Mythri Movie Makers, the producers of Ajith Kumar’s Good Bad Ugly, alleging they used his songs in the Adhik Ravichandran-directorial without permission or due authorisation. The…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Music ‘maestro’ and Rajya Sabha MP Ilaiyaraaja, in New Delhi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Music composer and Rajya Sabha MP Ilaiyaraaja met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday (March 18, 2025). According to a statement from the Press Information Bureau, Mr. Modi lauded Ilaiyaraaja’s first-ever…
Music Director Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. File Photo. Ragu R./The Hindu Music director Ilaiyaraaja, the first Indian to write a symphony, has said a symphony should not be explained but experienced. “Music is an experience,” he said in a conversation with The Hindu at his studio in Chennai on Wednesday (January 29, 2025). Asked whether some knowledge…
