Gangai Amaran Claims Ownership For Ilaiyaraaja Songs? Says 'Many Of His Songs Were Composed By Me'

Gangai Amaran Claims Ownership For Ilaiyaraaja Songs: Ilaiyaraaja's elder brother Gangai Amaran, who is also a music composer in Tamil film industry claimed in a recent interview to a leading media portal that many of Ilaiyaraaja's songs were composed by him.

Gangai Amaran's this statement that he has composed music for many songs attributed to Ilaiyaraaja has sparked a debate.

Isaignani Ilaiyaraaja

Ilaiyaraaja has a unique place among Tamil cinema music composers. Ilaiyaraaja was also the one who changed the musical style of Tamil cinema that existed till then. A lot of people can't do any job without Ilaiyaraaja's music. To that extent, Ilaiyaraaja has won a place in people's hearts through his songs.

Ilaiyaraaja, who was composing music for stage plays with his brothers, made his debut as a music composer in the 1975 film Annakkili. All the songs featured in the film became mega hits.

After this Ilaiyaraaja became an indispensable music composer. He was so busy composing music for ten films in a day. The directors were waiting for Ilaiyaraaja's music at his studio. The popularity of Ilaiyaraaja was such that if Ilaiyaraaja's music was enough for a film, the film would become a success. Though Ilaiyaraaja has composed music for many films simultaneously, he has made each song fresh and catchy with fans.

Ilaiyaraaja was the first choice of the directors of their first film. Ilaiyaraaja, who has composed music for more than 1000 films so far, also composed the music for the recently released film, Viduthalai directed by Vetrimaaran.

The songs and background music of Viduthalai movie have made the audience enjoy it even today. Ilaiyaraaja most recently composed the music for three stories in an anthology called Modern Love Chennai. With this, he has composed music in a form suitable for 2K kids and has impressed the present generation as well.

Gangai Amaran Composed Many Of Ilaiyaraaja Songs?

Like Ilaiyaraaja, his brother Gangai Amaran is also a music composer. Gangai Amaran, who made his debut as a music composer with the film Oru Vidukathai Oru Thodarkathai, has composed music for several films. He has also directed films like Kozhi Koovuthu and Karakatakkaran. Apart from this he has also written many songs.

In a recent interview, Gangai Amaran said, "Many of the songs that you think were composed by Ilaiyaraaja were composed by me. If Ilaiyaraaja had gone abroad, I would have composed the music. Before becoming a solo composer, I had composed songs for Ilayaraja. That wisdom made me a musician too.

For example, I did music for Rajini's Nallavanku Nallavan movie. All the songs are composed by me. But the name comes as Ilaiyaaraja. All that was never said outside." This interview of Gangai Amaran is going viral on the internet.