Ilaiyaraja Is ‘Father Of Music’: Samuthirakani

Multi talented actor-director Samuthriakani has taken time out to pay tribute to music veteran Ilaiyaraja on his 73 rd birthday. The man who has composed over 1000 films has widely worked in movies of all the industries. He recently composed for R. Balki’s Bollywood flick Ki & Ka.

Samuthriakani has worked previously with the legendary music composed and shared his experience over a video he released, “Appa is my tenth film. I finished the film and approached Raja sir. After watching the film he accepted to do the musical score. I asked about his salary and he just said that the salary part can be discussed later and insisted on starting work immediately.

He went on and said that for eleven days he worked with Ilaiyaraja and he was nothing less than a teacher to him. Samuthriakani told that he learned how the background music for the films should be in a film. In the end of the video, he went ahead and said that he prays to the almighty to bless him with many more years and called him the ‘Father of Music’. 

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