Maestro Ilayaraja News and Tidbits 2014

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Am I the only one in this thread who gets irritated whenever Kamal talks about IR? If he really means all that he says he would have at least done one movie with IR in the last 10 yrs, there really could be no excuse! Based on what he says in interviews ("they pay me whatever I ask now!") and the fact that he produces his movies, he has full control of his projects, i.e the choice of music director. Let alone the masala movies, at least his gimmicky self indulgent serious movies would vastly benefit from IR's music. Vishvaroopam would've been palatable with IR... he claims to love his artform but seems to enjoy the movie making process (I spent 3 months learning kathak!) more than the end product.

I cant think of one Kamal-IR movie that had average score/songs, goofy comedies like singaravelan (that ended RV Udhayakumar's career) had kick-ass music! Recently watched "Aval appadithaan" after reading kamals writeup about director rudhraiah, incredible ahead of times movie with awesome performance by Rajini, Kamal and Sripriya with minimal and very effective IR BGM score, whatever happened to that actor kamal? Rajini playing a multi dimensional role was incredible, guess "super stardom" buried the actor Rajini... I digress.. the point is, amongst all these commercialized "artists" who claim to love their art, IR seems to be the one who really means it.

So Kamal, 10 yrs is a long F'ing time to not work with your "elder brother, younger friend and the hero of wonders"! Your "can turn my answer into a hit song" friend unfortunately has chosen a medium which needs a platform from people like you to create. Until you provide that platform, stop serenading him with poems! Just shut the F** up!