
This was one of the songs chosen and the end result, the playful, Jaane do na.
RAAGA COM KANNADA OLD FILM SONGS MOVIE
To rectify this and to bring some of Ilaiyaraja’s best compositions to a wider audience, he selected 4 of the maestro’s tunes and requested him to “recreate” them for his movie Cheeni Kum (2007). Janaki) that has been remade in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi is one of Kannada cinema’s best songs! In a televised tribute to Ilaiyaraja on his 68th birthday, the ad-film maker turned director, R.Balki, who considers him the greatest composer in the world said that since only one-half of the country has heard the maestro’s compositions. Still extremely popular, 38 years after its release, this timeless tune (sung by SPB and S.

No song, as in the original version, in this list is post that.Īlso, having grown up in the North, I haven’t watched that many Tamil/Kannada movies – just the rare ones that DD showed on Sunday afternoon or the video cassette that would be sourced once in a while from the local South Indian store. I restricted myself to songs in just these two languages and to songs from either the late 70s or 80s.

Here is a list of Ilaiyaraja songs – songs from Tamil and Kannada that have been reused/ recreated or blatantly lifted in Hindi cinema. Burman and Salil Choudhary have reused their Bangla tunes in Hindi to much success – examples are aplenty – and require another list altogether. However, the difference in this case was that the music director Ilaiyaraja used his older tune in a different film, different language and different context.


Here was an extremely popular Tamil song (from a movie that is remembered even today – for Rajnikanth and Sridevi’s stellar performances), being reused in Hindi and the result was good but the original was definitely much better! It shouldn’t have been a surprise – the 90s did see a lot of such “inspired”/ plagiarised songs, especially in the case of someone as prolific as as the legendary Ilaiyaraja. And then a familiar, much-forgotten tune wafted through the sound waves – bringing with it memories long forgotten something seemed wrong to me. A few days back, the FM channel was blaring “old” songs from the 80s and 90s – some passable tunes and some not-so-bearable.
