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Mickey J Meyer 101: Energetic, Powerful Pranavalaya Music Video 2021

Kotha Bangaru Lokam Mickey J Meyer Telugu Movie

I first got hooked with ‘s style of composition with the , Kotha Bangaru Lokam which I discovered accidentally when I was searching for a Paiyaa Tamil movie song. I don’t understand Telugu but then the language of music is universal and thus found the Telugu song Nijangaa Nenena which was so refreshing that I started to dig further and created a personal Mickey J Meyer playlist. Image source: Amazon.

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Nostalgic Tamil Song 101: When Great Poets Gets Cheated Song by MSV 1978

Nizhal Nijamagiradhu Balachander Kamban Emanthan Poet

Nizhal Nijamagiradhu is a 1978 directed by K Balachander starred by Kamal Haasan as the main character with the background score and songs composed by MS Visvanathan. The movie only has 2 songs and both are classic with written by the poet . Image source: IMDB

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Tamil Movie Review: Beautiful Sarvam Thaala Mayam 2019, GV Prakash High Point Movie

GV Prakash Sarvam Thaala Mayam Tamil Music Movie

Before , my impression of GV Prakash is that he is a really good who has composed some of the best hits in the industry. I had never rated him as a good actor perhaps due to the types of roles that he has done in the past.

My personal favourite is his composition for the 2010 , Aayirathil Oruvan titled “Maalai Neram” sung by Andrea Jeremiah. He also did a great job in scoring for other blockbusters like Madrasapattinam, Deiva Thirumagal and Raja Rani. Image source: Wikipedia.

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Nostalgic Tamil Song 101: Ponnoviyam Kandenamma by Illaiyaraaja 1981

Kazhugu Illayaraaja Tamil Music

Kazhugu is a that came out in 1981 starring and was directed by S. P. Muthuraman with scored by maestro Illayaraaja. It will be 40 years since this movie first came out and yet the songs from that era are still fresh and can still engage any generation of music lovers like it was yesterday. Image source: Rajinifans

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Tamil Movie Review 101: SP Bala As Brilliant Music Director, Actor and Singer

sigaram sp bala 1991 tamil movie radha rekha

Most of us are still reeling from the great loss, the late was not only known as a great playback and actor but also a director. Image source:

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Nostalgic Tamil Song 101: Classic Beautiful Edho Ninaivugal by Ilaiyaraaja 1979

Agal Vilakku ilaiyaraaja 1970s tamil music

is a 1979 starring and Shobha and the was composed by the one and only Ilaiyaraaja. Image source: .

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My Favourite Tamil Song 101: Beautiful Vidyasagar Tamil Hits Part 1

Vidyasagar Tamil Music

It is difficult to place in the scene – you see the and 1990s was dominated by the one and only Maestro Illayaraja and then 2000s thereafter we had AR Rahman changing the whole way we hear Tamil songs and then we had other directors like Vidyasagar. Image source: Times of India

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RIP Maestro MS Viswanathan: 1928 – 2015

Viswanathan RIP Death Maestro

(Before and , there was only one great and that was . Image source)

: Legendary music composer and singer MS Viswanathan (MSV), who had been critically ill for the past few days, passed away at a private hospital in Chennai in the early hours of Tuesday. He was 87.

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Ilaiyaraaja: Project “Then, Now & Forever” 2013

Western classical is perspective – look at the number of people involved in a symphony! Our traditional music is lonely –

ilaiyaraaja sp bala s janaki old photo

A very young Ilaiyaraaja with the very talented and S. Janaki in the early during a recording session. Image source: The Federal

As long I could remember, I have been listening to Ilaiyaraaja music since I was still young and started to have an appreciation of his style of music – all the way from the (you are aware that Annakili was not his first and that he had to impress the producer Panchu Arunachalam by singing a song that his mother sang and using the table as a music instrument?) to his latest flick in “Neethane En Ponvasantham” – thanks to my Dad who was a big fan of Ilaiyaraaja (Ilaiyaraaja means the “younger” Raja – that is because the music industry already had another named Raja – the famed A.M. Raja).

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