Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

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Aakarsh, I suspect the Telugu dubbings of Tamil hits and such hindi dubbings happened without Raja's involvement. Basically, as App keeps alluding even w.r.t Raja's original recordings, a fixed cost contract sort of. In this case, possibly contracted to someone who is not Raja and he hired cost effective singers possibly. App alleges that during late 80s even Raja might have resorted to cost-effective singers like Mano for the cost factorm