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data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ilaiyaraaja" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7" title="ایلاییاراجا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ایلاییاراجا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilayaraja" title="Ilayaraja – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ilayaraja" 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href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE" title="इलैयाराजा – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="इलैयाराजा" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Ilaiyaraaja" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%87%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%BE" title="ಇಳಯರಾಜಾ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಇಳಯರಾಜಾ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" 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hreflang="arz" data-title="ايلاياراچا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Ilaiyaraaja" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%88%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%BE" title="ଇଲୈୟାରାଜା – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ଇଲୈୟାରାଜା" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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class="plainlist"><ul><li>Ilaiyaraja</li><li>Maestro</li><li>Isaignani</li><li>Ragadevan</li><li>Isaikadavul</li><li>Isaisami</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1943-06-02</span>) </span>2 June 1943<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 81)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Pannaipuram" title="Pannaipuram">Pannaipuram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madras_Presidency" title="Madras Presidency">Madras Presidency</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output 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right;"><div></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Ilaiyaraaja</b> (born <b>Gnanathesigan</b>) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in <a href="/wiki/Indian_cinema" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian cinema">Indian cinema</a>, predominately in <a href="/wiki/Tamil_cinema" title="Tamil cinema">Tamil</a> in addition to <a href="/wiki/Telugu_cinema" title="Telugu cinema">Telugu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malayalam_Cinema" class="mw-redirect" title="Malayalam Cinema">Malayalam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kannada_cinema" title="Kannada cinema">Kannada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hindi_cinema" title="Hindi cinema">Hindi</a> films. Regarded as one of the most prolific composers, in a career spanning over forty-eight years, he has composed over 7,000 songs and provided film scores for over 1,500+ films,<sup id="cite_ref-musicreligion_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musicreligion-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> apart from performing in over 20,000 concerts.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_200506190401_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_200506190401-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is nicknamed "Isaignani" (the musical sage) and is often referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Maestro" title="Maestro">Maestro</a>", the title conferred to him by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Philharmonic_Orchestra" title="Royal Philharmonic Orchestra">Royal Philharmonic Orchestra</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-huffingtonpost.in_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-huffingtonpost.in-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja was also one of the first Indian film composers to use <a href="/wiki/Western_classical_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Western classical music">Western classical music</a> harmonies and string arrangements in Indian film music,<sup id="cite_ref-filmmusicthenewinterculturalidiomp.110_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmmusicthenewinterculturalidiomp.110-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the first South Asian to compose a full <a href="/wiki/Symphony" title="Symphony">symphony</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_24094187_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_24094187-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1986, he became the first Indian composer to record a soundtrack with computer for the film <i><a href="/wiki/Vikram_(1986_Tamil_film)" title="Vikram (1986 Tamil film)">Vikram</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-m.behindwoods.com_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m.behindwoods.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also composed <i><a href="/wiki/Thiruvasakam_in_Symphony" title="Thiruvasakam in Symphony">Thiruvasagam in Symphony</a></i> (2006), the first Indian <a href="/wiki/Oratorio" title="Oratorio">oratorio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-finndian.com_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-finndian.com-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, when <a href="/wiki/CNN-IBN" class="mw-redirect" title="CNN-IBN">CNN-IBN</a> conducted a poll to commemorate 100 years of <a href="/wiki/Indian_cinema" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian cinema">Indian cinema</a>, he secured 49% of the vote and was adjudged the country's greatest music composer.<sup id="cite_ref-indiatimes_37560912_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indiatimes_37560912-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, the American world cinema portal "Taste of Cinema" placed him at 9th position in its list of 25 greatest film composers in the history of cinema. He is the only Indian on the list, appearing alongside <a href="/wiki/Ennio_Morricone" title="Ennio Morricone">Ennio Morricone</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Williams" title="John Williams">John Williams</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Goldsmith" title="Jerry Goldsmith">Jerry Goldsmith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sify.com_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sify.com-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-White_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-White-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja received <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Ilaiyaraaja" title="List of awards and nominations received by Ilaiyaraaja">several awards</a> for his works throughout his career. In 2012, for his creative and experimental works in the field of music, he received the <a href="/wiki/Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Award" title="Sangeet Natak Akademi Award">Sangeet Natak Akademi Award</a>, the highest Indian recognition given to people in the field of <a href="/wiki/Performing_arts" title="Performing arts">performing arts</a>. In 2010 he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a>, the third-highest civilian honour in India, and in 2018 the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Vibhushan" title="Padma Vibhushan">Padma Vibhushan</a>, the second-highest civilian award by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">government of India</a>. He is a nominated <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Rajya_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha">Member of Parliament</a> in the Indian upper house <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a> since July 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A biographical film about his life titled "Ilaiyaraaja" was announced on 20 March 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanathesigan in a <a href="/wiki/Dalit" title="Dalit">Dalit</a> family in <a href="/wiki/Pannaipuram" title="Pannaipuram">Pannaipuram</a> in present-day <a href="/wiki/Theni_district" title="Theni district">Theni district</a>, Tamil Nadu, India, on 3 June 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-thenewsminute_102837_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thenewsminute_102837-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ToI020620_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ToI020620-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of joining school, his father, Ramasamy<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> changed his name from Gnanathesigan<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to "Rajaiya", and the people in his village called him "Raasayya".<sup id="cite_ref-maalaimalar_01225356_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maalaimalar_01225356-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he joined <a href="/wiki/Master_Dhanraj" title="Master Dhanraj">Dhanraj Master</a> as a student to learn musical instruments, the master changed his name to "Raaja".<sup id="cite_ref-dhanraj_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dhanraj-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While working for his first film <i><a href="/wiki/Annakili" title="Annakili">Annakili</a></i> (1976), Tamil film producer <a href="/wiki/Panchu_Arunachalam" title="Panchu Arunachalam">Panchu Arunachalam</a> added the prefix "Ilaiya" (meaning 'younger' in <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>) to the name "Raaja", and renamed him as "Ilaiyaraaja", because in the 1970s there was another popular music director with the same suffix, namely <a href="/wiki/A._M._Rajah" title="A. M. Rajah">A. M. Rajah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-deccanherald_322751_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deccanherald_322751-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the birthdays of both Ilaiyaraaja and the politician <a href="/wiki/M._Karunanidhi" title="M. Karunanidhi">M. Karunanidhi</a> fall on the same date (3 June), Ilaiyaraaja decided to celebrate his on 2 June so that people of Tamil Nadu can celebrate only that of Karunanidhi on 3 June. This was done in honour of Karunanidhi who gave Ilaiyaraaja the title "Isaignani".<sup id="cite_ref-ToI020620_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ToI020620-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Initial_exposure_to_music">Initial exposure to music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Initial exposure to music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ilaiyaraaja grew up in a <a href="/wiki/Rural_area" title="Rural area">rural area</a> and was exposed to a range of <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Tamil_Nadu#Folk_music" title="Music of Tamil Nadu">Tamil folk music</a> in his formative years.<sup id="cite_ref-Ilaiyarajacomposerasphenomenon_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ilaiyarajacomposerasphenomenon-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of 14, he joined a travelling musical troupe named as "Pavalar Brothers", headed by his elder brother <a href="/wiki/Pavalar_Varadharajan" title="Pavalar Varadharajan">Pavalar Varadharajan</a>, and spent the next decade performing across <a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While working with the troupe, he penned his first composition, a musical adaptation of an <a href="/wiki/Elegy" title="Elegy">elegy</a> written by the Tamil <a href="/wiki/Poet_laureate" title="Poet laureate">poet laureate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kannadasan" title="Kannadasan">Kannadasan</a>, for India's first prime minister, <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hinduonnet_200407090231_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinduonnet_200407090231-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_24080492_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_24080492-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1968, he began a music course with Professor <a href="/wiki/Master_Dhanraj" title="Master Dhanraj">Dhanraj</a> in <a href="/wiki/Madras" class="mw-redirect" title="Madras">Madras (now Chennai)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dhanraj_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dhanraj-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The course included an overview of Western classical music, compositional training in techniques such as <a href="/wiki/Counterpoint" title="Counterpoint">counterpoint</a>, and study in instrumental performance. Ilaiyaraaja was a gold medalist in <a href="/wiki/Classical_guitar" title="Classical guitar">classical guitar</a> after completing the course through a distance-learning channel from <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_of_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Trinity College of Music">Trinity College of Music</a>, London.<sup id="cite_ref-hinduonnet_200506190401_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinduonnet_200506190401-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-infoqueenbee.com_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoqueenbee.com-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He learnt <a href="/wiki/Carnatic_music" title="Carnatic music">Carnatic music</a> from <a href="/wiki/T._V._Gopalakrishnan" title="T. V. Gopalakrishnan">T. V. Gopalakrishnan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-google_20170825_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google_20170825-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-indiatimes_38767109_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indiatimes_38767109-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Session_musician_and_orchestrator">Session musician and orchestrator</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Session musician and orchestrator"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 1970s in Chennai, Ilaiyaraaja played guitar in a band-for-hire, and worked as a <a href="/wiki/Session_musician" title="Session musician">session guitarist</a>, keyboardist, and organist for film music composers and directors such as <a href="/wiki/Salil_Chowdhury" title="Salil Chowdhury">Salil Chowdhury</a> from <a href="/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hinduonnet_200411230058_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinduonnet_200411230058-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hindu_200511200034_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindu_200511200034-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archive_200611171852_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_200611171852-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_3752336_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_3752336-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chowdhury once remarked that "[Ilaiyaraaja] is going to become the best composer in India".<sup id="cite_ref-One_of_a_kind_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-One_of_a_kind-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Our main guitarist in Madras is the best composer in India", he said.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Hindu_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Hindu-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After being hired as the musical assistant to <a href="/wiki/Kannada_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada film">Kannada film</a> composer <a href="/wiki/G._K._Venkatesh" title="G. K. Venkatesh">G. K. Venkatesh</a>, he worked on 200 film projects, mostly in Kannada cinema.<sup id="cite_ref-archive_200802010240_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_200802010240-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Venkatesh's assistant, Ilaiyaraaja would <a href="/wiki/Orchestration" title="Orchestration">orchestrate</a> the melodic outlines developed by Venkatesh, learning about composing under Venkatesh's guidance. During this period, Ilaiyaraaja also began writing his own scores. To listen to his compositions, he used to persuade Venkatesh's <a href="/wiki/Session_musician" title="Session musician">session musicians</a> to play excerpts from his scores during their leisure times.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_score_composer">Film score composer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Film score composer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ilaiyaraaja_at_the_TFPC_Press_Meet_Held_Ahead_Of_The_%E2%80%98Ilaiyaraaja_75%E2%80%99_Concert.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Ilaiyaraaja_at_the_TFPC_Press_Meet_Held_Ahead_Of_The_%E2%80%98Ilaiyaraaja_75%E2%80%99_Concert.jpg/250px-Ilaiyaraaja_at_the_TFPC_Press_Meet_Held_Ahead_Of_The_%E2%80%98Ilaiyaraaja_75%E2%80%99_Concert.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Ilaiyaraaja_at_the_TFPC_Press_Meet_Held_Ahead_Of_The_%E2%80%98Ilaiyaraaja_75%E2%80%99_Concert.jpg/330px-Ilaiyaraaja_at_the_TFPC_Press_Meet_Held_Ahead_Of_The_%E2%80%98Ilaiyaraaja_75%E2%80%99_Concert.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Ilaiyaraaja_at_the_TFPC_Press_Meet_Held_Ahead_Of_The_%E2%80%98Ilaiyaraaja_75%E2%80%99_Concert.jpg/500px-Ilaiyaraaja_at_the_TFPC_Press_Meet_Held_Ahead_Of_The_%E2%80%98Ilaiyaraaja_75%E2%80%99_Concert.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Ilaiyaraaja at the TFPC Press Meet</figcaption></figure> <p>At the start of his career, the music sensibility of Ilaiyaraaja was very different to the film music being composed in those days, so although he spent a lot of his time learning, he "wasn't able to grasp how music was being made for films." However, in 1975, film producer Panchu Arunachalam, impressed by a song casually sung by Ilaiyaraaja, commissioned him to compose the songs and film score for a Tamil film titled <i><a href="/wiki/Annakili" title="Annakili">Annakili</a></i> (1976).<sup id="cite_ref-hindu_200704200023_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindu_200704200023-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the soundtrack, Ilaiyaraaja applied techniques of modern popular film music orchestration to Tamil <a href="/wiki/Folk_poetry" title="Folk poetry">folk poetry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Folk_song" class="mw-redirect" title="Folk song">folk song</a> melodies, which resulted in creation of a fusion of Western and Tamil idioms. Initially he was little apprehensive about how his work would be received, thinking musicians in the industry may write him off. When <i>Annakili</i> released in 1976, the music became a huge hit. For his following 12 films, Ilaiyaraaja based his compositions on the contemporary film music. Later, when a new wave of films started to come, they opened the space for the kind of music he wanted to explore.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja's use of <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Tamil_Nadu" title="Music of Tamil Nadu">Tamil folk music</a> in his film scores injected new life in the Indian film score milieu.<sup id="cite_ref-musicforthepeople_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musicforthepeople-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the mid-1980s, he started gaining increasing stature as a composer and music director in the <a href="/wiki/South_Indian_film" class="mw-redirect" title="South Indian film">South Indian film</a> industries.<sup id="cite_ref-filmmusicsouthernareap.544_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmmusicsouthernareap.544-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked with Indian poets and lyricists such as <a href="/wiki/Kannadasan" title="Kannadasan">Kannadasan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaali_(poet)" title="Vaali (poet)">Vaali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vairamuthu" title="Vairamuthu">Vairamuthu</a>, <a href="/wiki/O._N._V._Kurup" title="O. N. V. Kurup">O. N. V. Kurup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sreekumaran_Thampi" title="Sreekumaran Thampi">Sreekumaran Thampi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Veturi" title="Veturi">Veturi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acharya_Aatreya" title="Acharya Aatreya">Acharya Aatreya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sirivennela_Seetharama_Sastry" title="Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry">Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chi._Udayashankar" title="Chi. Udayashankar">Chi. Udayashankar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gulzar" title="Gulzar">Gulzar</a>. Most of his compositions were sung by <a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._Janaki" title="S. Janaki">S. Janaki</a> and <a href="/wiki/K._S._Chithra" title="K. S. Chithra">K. S. Chithra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Director <a href="/wiki/R._K._Selvamani" title="R. K. Selvamani">R. K. Selvamani</a> claimed that for his film <i><a href="/wiki/Chembaruthi" title="Chembaruthi">Chembaruthi</a></i> (1992), Ilaiyaraaja had composed nine songs in just 45 minutes, which is a record.<sup id="cite_ref-thenewsminute_20190108_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thenewsminute_20190108-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cinematographer <a href="/wiki/Santosh_Sivan" title="Santosh Sivan">Santosh Sivan</a> said that Ilaiyaraaja finished composing for the entire soundtrack of the film <i><a href="/wiki/Thalapathi" title="Thalapathi">Thalapathi</a></i> in less than "half a day".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERamachandran2014140_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERamachandran2014140-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the recording for the song "Sundari" from the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Thalapathi" title="Thalapathi">Thalapathi</a></i> in Mumbai with <a href="/wiki/R.D._Burman" class="mw-redirect" title="R.D. Burman">R.D. Burman</a>'s orchestra, when Ilaiyaraaja gave them the notes, they were so moved and taken in by the composition that all the musicians put their hands together in awe and gave a standing ovation as a mark of respect for Ilaiyaraaja.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_200510210014_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_200510210014-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The score and soundtrack of the 1984 <a href="/wiki/Malayalam" title="Malayalam">Malayalam</a>-language film <i><a href="/wiki/My_Dear_Kuttichathan" title="My Dear Kuttichathan">My Dear Kuttichathan</a></i>, the first stereoscopic 3D film made in India, was composed by him.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He composed the soundtrack for the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Nayakan" title="Nayakan">Nayakan</a></i> (1987), an Indian film ranked by <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)"><i>Time</i></a> magazine as one of the all-time 100 best movies.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-cinematic_output">Non-cinematic output</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Non-cinematic output"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ilaiyaraaja_and_Vikram_at_the_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ilaiyaraaja_and_Vikram_at_the_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg/250px-Ilaiyaraaja_and_Vikram_at_the_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ilaiyaraaja_and_Vikram_at_the_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg/330px-Ilaiyaraaja_and_Vikram_at_the_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ilaiyaraaja_and_Vikram_at_the_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg/500px-Ilaiyaraaja_and_Vikram_at_the_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2700" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption>Ilaiyaraaja and Vikram at the Nadigar Sangam Protest</figcaption></figure> <p>Ilaiyaraaja's first two non-film albums were explorations in the fusion of Indian and Western classical music. The first, <i><a href="/wiki/How_to_Name_It%3F" title="How to Name It?">How to Name It?</a></i> (1986), is dedicated to the Carnatic master <a href="/wiki/Tyagaraja" title="Tyagaraja">Tyāgarāja</a> and to <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">J. S. Bach</a>. It features a fusion of the Carnatic form and <i><a href="/wiki/Ragas" class="mw-redirect" title="Ragas">ragas</a></i> with Bach <a href="/wiki/Partita" title="Partita">partitas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fugue" title="Fugue">fugues</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baroque" title="Baroque">Baroque</a> musical textures.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second, <i>Nothing But Wind</i> (1988), was performed by flautist <a href="/wiki/Hariprasad_Chaurasia" title="Hariprasad Chaurasia">Hariprasad Chaurasia</a> and a 50-piece orchestra and takes the conceptual approach suggested in the title—that music is a "natural phenomenon akin to various forms of air currents".<sup id="cite_ref-archive_200611060940_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_200611060940-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He has composed a set of Carnatic <i><a href="/wiki/Kriti_(music)" title="Kriti (music)">kritis</a></i> which were recorded by electric mandolinist <a href="/wiki/U._Srinivas" title="U. Srinivas">U. Srinivas</a> for the album <i>Ilayaraaja's Classicals on the Mandolin</i> (1994). Ilaiyaraaja has also composed albums of religious/<a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">devotional</a> songs. His <i>Guru Ramana Geetam</i> (2004) is a cycle of prayer songs inspired by the Hindu mystic <a href="/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi" title="Ramana Maharshi">Ramana Maharshi</a>, and his <i><a href="/wiki/Thiruvasakam" class="mw-redirect" title="Thiruvasakam">Thiruvasakam</a>: A crossover</i> (2005) is an <a href="/wiki/Oratorio" title="Oratorio">oratorio</a> of ancient Tamil poems transcribed partially in English by American lyricist <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Schwartz_(composer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Schwartz (composer)">Stephen Schwartz</a> and performed by the <a href="/wiki/Budapest_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Budapest Symphony Orchestra">Budapest Symphony Orchestra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hinduonnet_200507290041_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinduonnet_200507290041-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hinduonnet_200411260303_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinduonnet_200411260303-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His most recent release is a world music-oriented album called <i>The Music Messiah</i> (2006).<sup id="cite_ref-hindu_200612300600_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindu_200612300600-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2025, he composed his first English classical symphony “Valiant”, performed by <a href="/wiki/Royal_Scottish_National_Orchestra" title="Royal Scottish National Orchestra">Royal Scottish National Orchestra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2020, he composed a song titled <i>Bharath Bhoomi</i>, as tribute to the people working amid <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_31709650_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_31709650-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The song was crooned by <a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P Balasubrahmanyam</a> and the video of the song was unveiled by Ilaiyaraaja on his YouTube channel on 30 May 2020, in Tamil and Hindi.<sup id="cite_ref-deccanchronicle_310520_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deccanchronicle_310520-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-newindianexpress_2149984_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newindianexpress_2149984-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On his birthday in 2020, Ilaiyaraaja announced the upcoming launch of his 'Isai OTT' <a href="/wiki/Mobile_app" title="Mobile app">app</a>. He stated that the app would contain much more than just his songs, like behind-the-scenes trivia about how each song was conceived, produced, and delivered, as well as collaborations with other musicians.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_31734573_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_31734573-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja's song 'Naanthaan Ungappanda' from the 1981 film <i><a href="/wiki/Ram_Lakshman_(film)" title="Ram Lakshman (film)">Ram Lakshman</a></i> was part of the playlist for the opening ceremony of the <a href="/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics" title="2012 Summer Olympics">2012 Summer Olympics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His compositions <i>Paayum Puli Title Music</i> and <i>Ilamai Itho</i> were part of the soundtrack of <a href="/wiki/Ashim_Ahluwalia" title="Ashim Ahluwalia">Ashim Ahluwalia</a>'s 2012 <a href="/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival" title="Cannes Film Festival">Cannes Film Festival</a> entry, <i><a href="/wiki/Miss_Lovely" title="Miss Lovely">Miss Lovely</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_Lovebirds_(2020_film)" title="The Lovebirds (2020 film)"><i>The Lovebirds</i></a> (2020) incorporated a section of Ilaiyaraaja's "Oru kili" soundtrack composed for the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Aanandha_Kummi" title="Aanandha Kummi">Aanandha Kummi</a></i> (1983) as background music in its official trailer.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Black_Eyed_Peas" class="mw-redirect" title="The Black Eyed Peas">The Black Eyed Peas</a> sampled the Ilaiyaraaja's composition "Unakkum Ennakum" from <i>Sri Raghavendra</i> (1985) for the song "The Elephunk Theme" in <i><a href="/wiki/Elephunk" title="Elephunk">Elephunk</a></i> (2003).<sup id="cite_ref-hindu_200710175053_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindu_200710175053-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja's song "Mella Mella Ennaithottu" from <a href="/wiki/Vaazhkai_(1949_film)" title="Vaazhkai (1949 film)">Vaazhkai</a> was sampled by Rabbit Mac in the song <i>Sempoi</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Popular American rapper <a href="/wiki/Meek_Mill" title="Meek Mill">Meek Mill</a> sampled one of Ilaiyaraaja's hit songs for <i>Indian Bounce</i>. </p><p>The alternative artist <a href="/wiki/M.I.A._(artist)" class="mw-redirect" title="M.I.A. (artist)">M.I.A.</a> sampled "Kaatukuyilu" from the film <i>Thalapathi</i> (1991) for her song "Bamboo Banga" on the album <i><a href="/wiki/Kala_(album)" title="Kala (album)">Kala</a></i> (2007).<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alphant sampled Ilaiyaraaja's music for his song <i>An Indian Dream</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gonjasufi" title="Gonjasufi">Gonjasufi</a> sampled Ilaiyaraaja's "Yeh Hawa Yeh Fiza" from the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Sadma" title="Sadma">Sadma</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Live_performances">Live performances</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Live performances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maestro_Ilayaraaja_with_fellow_musicians.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Maestro_Ilayaraaja_with_fellow_musicians.jpg/250px-Maestro_Ilayaraaja_with_fellow_musicians.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Maestro_Ilayaraaja_with_fellow_musicians.jpg/330px-Maestro_Ilayaraaja_with_fellow_musicians.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Maestro_Ilayaraaja_with_fellow_musicians.jpg/500px-Maestro_Ilayaraaja_with_fellow_musicians.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4391" data-file-height="2919" /></a><figcaption>Ilaiyaraaja at the inauguration of 91st Music Academy Concerts & Conferences</figcaption></figure> <p>Ilaiyaraaja rarely performs his music live. His first major live performance since his debut was a four-hour concert held at the <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Stadium,_Chennai" class="mw-redirect" title="Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai">Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium</a> in Chennai, India, on 16 October 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-hinduonnet_200510210014_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinduonnet_200510210014-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He performed in 2004 in Italy at the Teatro Comunale di Modena, an event-concert presented for the 14th edition of Angelica, Festival Internazionale Di Musica, co-produced with the L'Altro Suono Festival.<sup id="cite_ref-archive_200709280227_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_200709280227-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A television retrospective titled <i>Ithu Ilaiyaraja</i> ("This is Ilaiyaraja") was produced, chronicling his career.<sup id="cite_ref-archive_200507010242_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_200507010242-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He last performed live at the audio release function of the film <i><a href="/wiki/Dhoni_(film)" title="Dhoni (film)">Dhoni</a></i> and before that, he performed a programme that was conducted and telecasted by Jaya TV titled <i>Enrendrum Raja</i> ("Everlasting Raja") on 28 December 2011 at Jahawarlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai. </p><p>On 5 September 2012, Ilayaraja performed in a live concert in Chennai with the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_National_Philharmonic" title="Hungarian National Philharmonic">Hungarian National Philharmonic</a> orchestra; during this event the music launch of his films <i><a href="/wiki/Neethaane_En_Ponvasantham" title="Neethaane En Ponvasantham">Neethaane En Ponvasantham</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Yeto_Vellipoyindhi_Manasu" title="Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu">Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu</a></i> took place.<sup id="cite_ref-ibs_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ibs-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 23 September 2012, he performed live in <a href="/wiki/Bangalore" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangalore">Bangalore</a> at National High School Grounds. </p><p>On 16 February 2013, Ilayaraja made his first appearance in North America performing at the <a href="/wiki/Rogers_Centre" title="Rogers Centre">Rogers Centre</a> in Toronto, Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-archive_201303011341_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_201303011341-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Toronto concert was promoted by Trinity Events for Vijay TV in India and produced by Sandy Audio Visual SAV Productions with PA+. Following his show at Toronto, Ilaiyaraaja also performed at the <a href="/wiki/Prudential_Center" title="Prudential Center">Prudential Center</a> Newark, New Jersey, on 23 February 2013 and at the <a href="/wiki/HP_Pavilion_at_San_Jose" class="mw-redirect" title="HP Pavilion at San Jose">HP Pavilion at San Jose</a> on 1<span class="nowrap"> </span>March 2013. After his North America tour, he made a live performance at <a href="/wiki/The_O2_Arena" title="The O2 Arena">The O2 Arena</a> in London on 24 August 2013, along with <a href="/wiki/Kamal_Haasan" title="Kamal Haasan">Kamal Haasan</a> and his sons <a href="/wiki/Yuvan_Shankar_Raja" title="Yuvan Shankar Raja">Yuvan Shankar Raja</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karthik_Raja" title="Karthik Raja">Karthik Raja</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_style_and_sensibility">Musical style and sensibility</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Musical style and sensibility"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:33%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>"Only the film director will be with me when the situation and the story are narrated. Then, it's just me and my harmonium. I just think about the situation and touch my harmonium and music flows. If people consider it as an alternate world, so be it. To me, it is something that I can't explain." </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">— Ilaiyaraaja on his creative process<sup id="cite_ref-musicreligion_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musicreligion-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Ilaiyaraaja, once reflecting over his works after turning seventy-five, said his "life experiences and learning" have been the fount from which his musical output poured, but sometimes felt that some of his compositions transcended them as if they were "the reflection of the efforts of past lives — mine, or those of other musical exponents." When enquired if it was mystical as in the case of mathematical genius <a href="/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan" title="Srinivasa Ramanujan">Srinivasa Ramanujan</a>, who insisted he received math formula in <a href="/wiki/Dreams" class="mw-redirect" title="Dreams">dreams</a> from a goddess, Ilaiyaraaja said that unlike Ramanujan who felt a supernatural being guiding him, he always felt a moment of clarity when a composition came to his mind—"It is as if I am the subject and the object of art at the same time when that happens," he said.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja uses the same <a href="/wiki/Harmonium" class="mw-redirect" title="Harmonium">harmonium</a>, both in his studio and in concerts. He has scored with it throughout his career. When he was younger, he was never allowed to touch it by his brother who thought he would spoil it. However, Ilaiyaraaja would play with it whenever he was not there; "that's how I learnt how to play," he said, "the harmonium knows that it was made for me. It tells me that there is more music to be made."<sup id="cite_ref-musicreligion_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musicreligion-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The harmonium was reportedly bought for eighty-five rupees.<sup id="cite_ref-ibs_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ibs-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja's musical style is characterised by an orchestration which is a synthesis of <a href="/wiki/Indian_folk_music" title="Indian folk music">Indian folk music</a> and Western classical music, with traditional <a href="/wiki/Indian_instruments" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian instruments">Indian instruments</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mode_(music)" title="Mode (music)">modes</a>. He uses electronic music technology that integrates synthesizers, electric guitars and <a href="/wiki/Electronic_keyboard" title="Electronic keyboard">keyboards</a>, drum machines, rhythm boxes and <a href="/wiki/MIDI" title="MIDI">MIDI</a> with large orchestras that feature traditional instruments such as the <i><a href="/wiki/Veena" title="Veena">veena</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Venu" title="Venu">venu</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Nadaswaram" title="Nadaswaram">nadaswaram</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dholak" title="Dholak">dholak</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mridangam" title="Mridangam">mridangam</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Tabla" title="Tabla">tabla</a></i> as well as Western lead instruments such as saxophones and flutes.<sup id="cite_ref-filmmusicsouthernareap.544_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmmusicsouthernareap.544-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Music_Maestro_Ilayaraja_speaking_after_receiving_the_centenary_award_at_the_inauguration_of_the_46th_International_Film_Festival_of_India_(IFFI-2015),_in_Panaji,_Goa._The_Union_Minister_for_Finance.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Music_Maestro_Ilayaraja_speaking_after_receiving_the_centenary_award_at_the_inauguration_of_the_46th_International_Film_Festival_of_India_%28IFFI-2015%29%2C_in_Panaji%2C_Goa._The_Union_Minister_for_Finance.jpg/250px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Music_Maestro_Ilayaraja_speaking_after_receiving_the_centenary_award_at_the_inauguration_of_the_46th_International_Film_Festival_of_India_%28IFFI-2015%29%2C_in_Panaji%2C_Goa._The_Union_Minister_for_Finance.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Music_Maestro_Ilayaraja_speaking_after_receiving_the_centenary_award_at_the_inauguration_of_the_46th_International_Film_Festival_of_India_%28IFFI-2015%29%2C_in_Panaji%2C_Goa._The_Union_Minister_for_Finance.jpg/500px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2138" data-file-height="1606" /></a><figcaption>Ilayaraja speaking after receiving the centenary award at the <a href="/wiki/46th_International_Film_Festival_of_India" title="46th International Film Festival of India">46th International Film Festival of India</a> (IFFI-2015), in <a href="/wiki/Panaji,_Goa" class="mw-redirect" title="Panaji, Goa">Panaji, Goa</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Bassline" title="Bassline">basslines</a> in his songs tend to be melodically dynamic, rising and falling in a dramatic fashion. <a href="/wiki/Polyrhythm" title="Polyrhythm">Polyrhythms</a> are also apparent, particularly in songs with Indian folk or Carnatic influences. The melodic structure of his songs demand considerable vocal virtuosity, and have found expressive platform amongst some of India's respected vocalists and playback singers, such as <a href="/wiki/T._M._Soundararajan" title="T. M. Soundararajan">T. M. Soundararajan</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._Janaki" title="S. Janaki">S. Janaki</a>, <a href="/wiki/P._Susheela" title="P. Susheela">P. Susheela</a>, <a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a>, <a href="/wiki/K._S._Chithra" title="K. S. Chithra">K. S. Chithra</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/M._G._Sreekumar" title="M. G. Sreekumar">M. G. Sreekumar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dr._Rajkumar" title="Dr. Rajkumar">Rajkumar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asha_Bhosle" title="Asha Bhosle">Asha Bhosle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a>, <a href="/wiki/P._Jayachandran" title="P. Jayachandran">Jayachandran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uma_Ramanan" title="Uma Ramanan">Uma Ramanan</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._P._Sailaja" title="S. P. Sailaja">S. P. Sailaja</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jency" class="mw-redirect" title="Jency">Jency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swarnalatha" title="Swarnalatha">Swarnalatha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minmini" title="Minmini">Minmini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sujatha_Mohan" title="Sujatha Mohan">Sujatha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malaysia_Vasudevan" title="Malaysia Vasudevan">Malaysia Vasudevan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kavita_Krishnamurti" title="Kavita Krishnamurti">Kavita Krishnamurti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hariharan_(singer)" title="Hariharan (singer)">Hariharan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suresh_Wadkar" title="Suresh Wadkar">Suresh Wadkar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sadhana_Sargam" title="Sadhana Sargam">Sadhana Sargam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shreya_Ghoshal" title="Shreya Ghoshal">Shreya Ghoshal</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Opinion" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TERSE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TERSE"><span title="Statements that may be excessive (July 2024)">excessive detail?</span></a></i>]</sup> Ilaiyaraaja has sung more than 400 of his own compositions for films, and is recognisable by his stark, deep voice. He has penned the lyrics for some of his songs in Tamil.<sup id="cite_ref-hindu_200410150246_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindu_200410150246-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archive_200812260346_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_200812260346-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He considers <a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> as an overwhelming influence on his music.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Hindu_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Hindu-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja is nicknamed "Isaignani" (the musical genius), a title conferred by Kalaignar Karunanidhi. He is often referred to as "Maestro", the title conferred by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Philharmonic_Orchestra" title="Royal Philharmonic Orchestra">Royal Philharmonic Orchestra</a>, London.<sup id="cite_ref-huffingtonpost.in_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-huffingtonpost.in-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Indian film music.<sup id="cite_ref-filmmusicthenewinterculturalidiomp.110_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmmusicthenewinterculturalidiomp.110-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This allowed him to craft a rich tapestry of sounds for films, and his themes and background score gained notice and appreciation among Indian film audiences.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The range of expressive possibilities in Indian film music was broadened by his methodical approach to arranging, recording technique, and his drawing of ideas from a diversity of musical styles.<sup id="cite_ref-filmmusicthenewinterculturalidiomp.110_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmmusicthenewinterculturalidiomp.110-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to musicologist P. Greene,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Is this Patrick Greene (composer) ? (April 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Ilaiyaraaja's "deep understanding of so many different styles of music allowed him to create syncretic pieces of music combining very different musical idioms in unified, coherent musical statements".<sup id="cite_ref-filmmusicsouthernareap.544_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmmusicsouthernareap.544-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ilaiyaraaja has composed Indian film songs that amalgamated elements of genres such as Afro-tribal, <a href="/wiki/Bossa_nova" title="Bossa nova">bossa nova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance music</a> (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Disco" title="Disco">disco</a>), <a href="/wiki/Doo-wop" title="Doo-wop">doo-wop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flamenco" title="Flamenco">flamenco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steel-string_acoustic_guitar" title="Steel-string acoustic guitar">acoustic guitar</a>-propelled <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_folk_music" title="Contemporary folk music">Western folk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Funk" title="Funk">funk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indian_classical_music" title="Indian classical music">Indian classical</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indian_folk_music" title="Indian folk music">Indian folk/traditional</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_march_music#Musicality_and_the_march_music_form" title="American march music">march</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pathos" title="Pathos">pathos</a>, pop, <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_music" title="Psychedelic music">psychedelia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By virtue of this variety and his intermingling of Western, Indian folk and <a href="/wiki/Carnatic_music" title="Carnatic music">Carnatic</a> elements, Ilaiyaraaja's compositions appeal to the Indian rural dweller for its <a href="/wiki/Rhythm" title="Rhythm">rhythmic</a> folk qualities, the Indian classical music enthusiast for the employment of Carnatic <i><a href="/wiki/Ragas" class="mw-redirect" title="Ragas">ragas</a></i>, and the urbanite for its modern, Western-music sound.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sense of visualisation for composing music is always to match up with the movie storyline and help the audience feel the emotions flavoured through his musical score. He mastered this art of blending music to the narration, which very few others managed to adapt themselves over a longer time.<sup id="cite_ref-musical_man_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musical_man-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Ilaiyaraaja uses a range of complex compositional techniques, he often sketches out the basic melodic ideas for films in a very spontaneous fashion.<sup id="cite_ref-Ilaiyarajacomposerasphenomenon_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ilaiyarajacomposerasphenomenon-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-filmmusicsouthernareap.544_41-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmmusicsouthernareap.544-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Actor Rajnikanth noted that Ilaiyaraaja used to complete the <a href="/wiki/Re-recording_(filmmaking)" title="Re-recording (filmmaking)">re-recording</a> of three films in a single day without any sleep, while present generation composers take 30 days for a single film.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_legacy">Honours and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Honours and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Ilaiyaraaja" title="List of awards and nominations received by Ilaiyaraaja">List of awards and nominations received by Ilaiyaraaja</a></div> <p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi conferred an honorary doctorate to Ilaiyaraaja during the 36th Convocation Ceremony of <a href="/wiki/Gandhigram_Rural_Institute" title="Gandhigram Rural Institute">Gandhigram Rural Institute</a> in Tamil Nadu's <a href="/wiki/Dindigul" title="Dindigul">Dindigul</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:He_President,_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Illaiyaraja.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/He_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Illaiyaraja.JPG/220px-He_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Illaiyaraja.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/He_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Illaiyaraja.JPG/330px-He_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Illaiyaraja.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/He_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Illaiyaraja.JPG/440px-He_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Illaiyaraja.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="2088" /></a><figcaption>Ilaiyaraaja receiving the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Vibhushan" title="Padma Vibhushan">Padma Vibhushan</a> from President <a href="/wiki/Ram_Nath_Kovind" title="Ram Nath Kovind">Ram Nath Kovind</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Ilaiyaraaja has been awarded five <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Awards" title="National Film Awards">National Film Awards</a>—three for <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Direction" title="National Film Award for Best Music Direction">Best Music Direction</a> and two for Best Background Score.<sup id="cite_ref-archive_200704181746_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_200704181746-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a>, the third-highest civilian honour in India and the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Vibhushan" title="Padma Vibhushan">Padma Vibhushan</a> in 2018, the second-highest <a href="/wiki/Indian_honours_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian honours system">civilian award</a> by the government of <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of India">India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-news18_1642129_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news18_1642129-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, he received the <a href="/wiki/Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Award" title="Sangeet Natak Akademi Award">Sangeet Natak Akademi Award</a>, the highest Indian recognition given to practising artists, for his creative and experimental works in the music field.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_4234942_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_4234942-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a gold medalist in classical guitar from <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Laban_Conservatoire_of_Music_and_Dance" title="Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance">Trinity College of Music</a>, London, Distance Learning Channel.<sup id="cite_ref-infoqueenbee.com_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoqueenbee.com-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ilaiyaraaja's soundtrack for the 1991 film <i><a href="/wiki/Thalapathi" title="Thalapathi">Thalapathi</a></i> was included in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s <i>100 Albums to Hear Before You Die</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, according to an international poll conducted by <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> of more than half-a million people from 165 countries, his composition "<a href="/wiki/Rakkamma_Kaiya_Thattu" title="Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu">Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu</a>" from <i>Thalapathi</i> was voted fourth in the top 10 most popular songs of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-archive_201503300739_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive_201503300739-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, when the Indian news channel <a href="/wiki/CNN-IBN" class="mw-redirect" title="CNN-IBN">CNN-IBN</a> conducted a poll commemorating 100 years of Indian cinema, he secured 49% of the people's vote and was adjudged as the country's greatest music composer; <a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> stood second with 29% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-indiatimes_37560912_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indiatimes_37560912-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He is reputed to be the world's most prolific composer<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having composed more than 7,000 songs, provided film scores for more than 1,000 movies and performed in more than 20,000 concerts.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_200506190401_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_200506190401-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hindustantimes.com_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindustantimes.com-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Baskaran2009_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baskaran2009-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Das2010_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Das2010-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Tamil film music.<sup id="cite_ref-filmmusicthenewinterculturalidiomp.110_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmmusicthenewinterculturalidiomp.110-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1986, he became the first Indian composer to record a soundtrack with computer, for the film <i><a href="/wiki/Vikram_(1986_Tamil_film)" title="Vikram (1986 Tamil film)">Vikram</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-m.behindwoods.com_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m.behindwoods.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1993, he became the first Indian to compose a <a href="/wiki/Symphony" title="Symphony">full symphony</a>, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London,<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_24094187_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_24094187-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hindustantimes.com_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindustantimes.com-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is also known to have written the entire symphony in less than a month.<sup id="cite_ref-youtube.com_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-youtube.com-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_200211220228_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_200211220228-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Composed by Ilaiyaraaja, the critically acclaimed <i><a href="/wiki/Thiruvasakam_in_Symphony" title="Thiruvasakam in Symphony">Thiruvasakam in Symphony</a></i> (2006) is the first Indian <a href="/wiki/Oratorio" title="Oratorio">oratorio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-finndian.com_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-finndian.com-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Achille Forler, board member of the Indian Performing Right Society, said in 2017, "the kind of stellar body of work that Ilaiyaraaja has created in the last 40 years should have placed him among the world's top 10 richest composers, somewhere between <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber" title="Andrew Lloyd Webber">Andrew Lloyd Webber</a> ($1.2 billion) and <a href="/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger">Mick Jagger</a> (over $300 million)."<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_17682511_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_17682511-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>British musician <a href="/wiki/Andy_Votel" title="Andy Votel">Andy Votel</a>, described Ilaiyaraaja in an essay thus, "Whatever "genre" of music you choose to like/ love/ promote/ protect/ politicise/ over-intellectualize/ despise/ defend or pretend to enjoy, Ilaiyaraaja has done it."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Hindu_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Hindu-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carnatic vocalist <a href="/wiki/T._M._Krishna" title="T. M. Krishna">T. M. Krishna</a> considers that no other film composer has displayed the broad range of understanding music like Ilaiyaraaja, and the way he modifies himself and creates music is "unfathomable" making him the "absolute master".<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 6 July 2022, Ilaiyaraaja was nominated to the <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a> as Member of Parliament by the President of India, <a href="/wiki/Ram_Nath_Kovind" title="Ram Nath Kovind">Ram Nath Kovind</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ilaiyaraaja was married to Jeeva, and the couple has three children—<a href="/wiki/Karthik_Raja" title="Karthik Raja">Karthik Raja</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhavatharini" title="Bhavatharini">Bhavatharini</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yuvan_Shankar_Raja" title="Yuvan Shankar Raja">Yuvan Shankar Raja</a>—all of them are film composers and singers.<sup id="cite_ref-hindu_200701130159_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindu_200701130159-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hindu_200508050167_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindu_200508050167-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife Jeeva died on 31 October 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu_2587916_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu_2587916-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His brother, <a href="/wiki/Gangai_Amaran" title="Gangai Amaran">Gangai Amaran</a>, is also a music director and lyricist in the Tamil film industry,<sup id="cite_ref-behindwoods_20050312_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-behindwoods_20050312-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and both were not on talking terms for 13 years until they met in February 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His daughter Bhavatharini died of liver cancer on 25 January 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_issues_and_controversies">Legal issues and controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Legal issues and controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rajinikanth,_Kamal_Haasan_and_Ilaiyaraaja_At_The_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Rajinikanth%2C_Kamal_Haasan_and_Ilaiyaraaja_At_The_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg/220px-Rajinikanth%2C_Kamal_Haasan_and_Ilaiyaraaja_At_The_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Rajinikanth%2C_Kamal_Haasan_and_Ilaiyaraaja_At_The_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg/330px-Rajinikanth%2C_Kamal_Haasan_and_Ilaiyaraaja_At_The_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Rajinikanth%2C_Kamal_Haasan_and_Ilaiyaraaja_At_The_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg/440px-Rajinikanth%2C_Kamal_Haasan_and_Ilaiyaraaja_At_The_Nadigar_Sangam_Protest.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2700" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption>Ilaiyaraaja (center) with <a href="/wiki/Kamal_Haasan" title="Kamal Haasan">Kamal Haasan</a> (left) and <a href="/wiki/Rajinikanth" title="Rajinikanth">Rajinikanth</a> (right) at the <a href="/wiki/Nadigar_Sangam" title="Nadigar Sangam">Nadigar Sangam</a> Protest in 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2017, claiming copyright violations, Ilaiyaraaja sent legal notices to singers, <a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P Balasubrahmanyam</a>, his son <a href="/wiki/S._P._Charan" title="S. P. Charan">S. P. Charan</a> and <a href="/wiki/K._S._Chithra" title="K. S. Chithra">Chithra</a>, prohibiting them from singing his compositions without his consent, and warned they would have to pay huge <a href="/wiki/Royalties" class="mw-redirect" title="Royalties">royalties</a> and face legal action if they do so.<sup id="cite_ref-hindustantimes_20170320_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hindustantimes_20170320-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ilaiyaraaja's brother Gangai Amaran criticized him, saying legal notice to SPB is 'foolishness'.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, during a talk show in the US, Ilaiyaraaja expressed his doubts regarding the credibility of the Christian belief in the <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">Resurrection of Jesus Christ</a> and claimed that resurrection happened only in the case of the Hindu saint <a href="/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi" title="Ramana Maharshi">Ramana Maharshi</a>. In protest, a Christian group lodged a complaint with the Police Commissioner of Trichy, demanding an apology or police action against Ilaiyaraaja for raising doubt about the "ultimate belief of Christians".<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 2022, talking about the state of music composers in industry, Ilaiyaraaja said, "There are no composers in the film industry today; there are only programmers."<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2022, Ilaiyaraaja triggered a controversy by writing a foreword in the book titled, "Ambedkar & Modi—Reformer's Ideas", in which he praised the Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> and compared him to <a href="/wiki/B.R._Ambedkar" class="mw-redirect" title="B.R. Ambedkar">B.R. Ambedkar</a>. When he received some criticism, leaders from <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> came to his support.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja_discography" title="Ilaiyaraaja discography">Ilaiyaraaja discography</a></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_film_scores_by_Ilaiyaraaja_1970s" title="List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 1970s">Ilaiyaraaja 1970s</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_film_scores_by_Ilaiyaraaja_1980s" title="List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 1980s">Ilaiyaraaja 1980s</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_film_scores_by_Ilaiyaraaja_1990s" title="List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 1990s">Ilaiyaraaja 1990s</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_film_scores_by_Ilaiyaraaja_2000s" title="List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 2000s">Ilaiyaraaja 2000s</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_film_scores_by_Ilaiyaraaja_2010s" title="List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 2010s">Ilaiyaraaja 2010s</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_film_scores_by_Ilaiyaraaja_2020s" title="List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 2020s">Ilaiyaraaja 2020s</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja_discography" title="Ilaiyaraaja discography">New / Non-Film</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Ilaiyaraaja" title="List of songs recorded by Ilaiyaraaja">List of songs recorded by Ilaiyaraaja</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilaiyaraaja&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maalaimalar.com/2013/02/01225356/Illayaraja-songs-created-on-th.html">the original</a> on 4 January 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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M.A. thesis, Wesleyan University (pp. 106–107).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRajadhyakshaWillemen2014" class="citation book cs1">Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (10 July 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8ABAAAQBAJ&q=pavalar+brothers&pg=PA1777"><i>Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema</i></a>. 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Retrieved 19 November 2006.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-thehindu_24080492-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-thehindu_24080492_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFAnanthakrishnanRamani2018" class="citation news cs1">Ananthakrishnan, G.; Ramani, Srinivasan (4 June 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/performance-is-an-important-component-of-a-musical-composition-ilaiyaraaja/article24080492.ece">"Performance is an important component of a musical composition: Ilaiyaraaja"</a>. <i>The Hindu</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0971-751X">0971-751X</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201109033030/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/performance-is-an-important-component-of-a-musical-composition-ilaiyaraaja/article24080492.ece">Archived</a> from the original on 9 November 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Chennai: Sembulam.</li> <li>Ilaiyaraaja. 1998 <i>Vettaveli Thanil Kotti Kidakkuthu</i> (trans.: My Spiritual Experiences) (3rd ed.). Chennai: Kalaignan Pathipagam. → A collection of poems by Ilaiyaraaja</li> <li>Ilaiyaraaja. 1998 <i>Vazhithunai</i>. Chennai: Saral Veliyeedu.</li> <li>Ilaiyaraaja. 1999 <i>Sangeetha Kanavugal</i> (trans.: Musical Dreams) (2nd ed.). Chennai: Kalaignan Pathipagam. → An autobiography about Ilaiyaraaja's European tour and other musings.</li> <li>Ilaiyaraaja. 2000 <i>Ilaiyaraajavin Sinthanaigal</i> (trans.: Ilaiyaraaja's Thoughts). Chennai: Thiruvasu Puthaka Nilayam.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSrinivasan,_Pavithra2010" class="citation web cs1">Srinivasan, Pavithra (20 September 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://movies.rediff.com/report/2010/sep/20/south-ilaiyaraja-bio.htm">"Making Music, Raja-style"</a>. <i>Rediff.com</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210126153207/http://movies.rediff.com/report/2010/sep/20/south-ilaiyaraja-bio.htm">Archived</a> from the original on 26 January 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Arunachalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagdish_Bhagwati" title="Jagdish Bhagwati">Jagdish Bhagwati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose" title="Satyendra Nath Bose">Satyendra Nath Bose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tara_Chand_(archaeologist)" title="Tara Chand (archaeologist)">Tara Chand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suniti_Kumar_Chatterji" title="Suniti Kumar Chatterji">Suniti Kumar Chatterji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._P._Chattopadhyaya" title="D. P. Chattopadhyaya">D. P. Chattopadhyaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhabatosh_Datta" title="Bhabatosh Datta">Bhabatosh Datta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avinash_Dixit" title="Avinash Dixit">Avinash Dixit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahasweta_Devi" title="Mahasweta Devi">Mahasweta Devi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith" title="John Kenneth Galbraith">John Kenneth Galbraith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarvepalli_Gopal" title="Sarvepalli Gopal">Sarvepalli Gopal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Shastri_Joshi" title="Lakshman Shastri Joshi">Lakshman Shastri Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaka_Kalelkar" title="Kaka Kalelkar">Kaka Kalelkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhondo_Keshav_Karve" title="Dhondo Keshav Karve">Dhondo Keshav Karve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gopinath_Kaviraj" title="Gopinath Kaviraj">Gopinath Kaviraj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radheshyam_Khemka" title="Radheshyam Khemka">Radheshyam Khemka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuvempu" title="Kuvempu">Kuvempu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._N._V._Kurup" title="O. N. V. Kurup">O. N. V. Kurup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prasanta_Chandra_Mahalanobis" title="Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis">Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitakant_Mahapatra" title="Sitakant Mahapatra">Sitakant Mahapatra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mathai" class="mw-redirect" title="John Mathai">John Mathai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kotha_Satchidananda_Murthy" class="mw-redirect" title="Kotha Satchidananda Murthy">Kotha Satchidananda Murthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giani_Gurmukh_Singh_Musafir" class="mw-redirect" title="Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir">Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basanti_Dulal_Nagchaudhuri" title="Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri">Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._T._Vasudevan_Nair" title="M. T. Vasudevan Nair">M. T. Vasudevan Nair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bal_Ram_Nanda" title="Bal Ram Nanda">Bal Ram Nanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._K._Narayan" title="R. K. Narayan">R. K. Narayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Parameswaran" title="P. Parameswaran">P. Parameswaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amrita_Pritam" title="Amrita Pritam">Amrita Pritam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._N._Raj" title="K. N. Raj">K. N. Raj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Rangarajan" title="C. Rangarajan">C. Rangarajan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_Rao" title="Raja Rao">Raja Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramoji_Rao" title="Ramoji Rao">Ramoji Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hormasji_Maneckji_Seervai" title="Hormasji Maneckji Seervai">Hormasji Maneckji Seervai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajaram_Shastri" title="Rajaram Shastri">Rajaram Shastri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._L._Shrimali" title="K. L. Shrimali">Kalu Lal Shrimali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govindbhai_Shroff" title="Govindbhai Shroff">Govindbhai Shroff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khushwant_Singh" title="Khushwant Singh">Khushwant Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandeshwar_Prasad_Narayan_Singh" title="Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh">Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premlila_Vithaldas_Thackersey" title="Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey">Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahadevi_Varma" title="Mahadevi Varma">Mahadevi Varma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashir_Hussain_Zaidi" title="Bashir Hussain Zaidi">Bashir Hussain Zaidi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Medicine</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jasbir_Singh_Bajaj" title="Jasbir Singh Bajaj">Jasbir Singh Bajaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._K._Goyal" title="B. K. Goyal">B. K. Goyal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purshotam_Lal" title="Purshotam Lal">Purshotam Lal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._Lakshmanaswami_Mudaliar" title="A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar">A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._I._Padmavati" title="S. I. Padmavati">S. I. Padmavati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autar_Singh_Paintal" title="Autar Singh Paintal">Autar Singh Paintal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Nageshwara_Reddy" class="mw-redirect" title="D. Nageshwara Reddy">D. Nageshwara Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kantilal_Hastimal_Sancheti" title="Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti">Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balu_Sankaran" title="Balu Sankaran">Balu Sankaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Shanta" title="V. Shanta">V. Shanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vithal_Nagesh_Shirodkar" title="Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar">Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prakash_Narain_Tandon" title="Prakash Narain Tandon">Prakash Narain Tandon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihaspati_Dev_Triguna" title="Brihaspati Dev Triguna">Brihaspati Dev Triguna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Valiathan" title="M. S. Valiathan">M. S. Valiathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Mahalanabis" title="Dilip Mahalanabis">Dilip Mahalanabis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sunderlal_Bahuguna" title="Sunderlal Bahuguna">Sunderlal Bahuguna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar" title="B. K. S. Iyengar">B. K. S. Iyengar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rambhadracharya" title="Rambhadracharya">Rambhadracharya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar_(spiritual_leader)" title="Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)">Ravi Shankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishwesha_Teertha" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishwesha Teertha">Vishwesha Teertha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaggi_Vasudev" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaggi Vasudev">Jaggi Vasudev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._V._Doshi" title="B. V. Doshi">B. V. Doshi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Public affairs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/L._K._Advani" title="L. K. Advani">L. K. Advani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montek_Singh_Ahluwalia" title="Montek Singh Ahluwalia">Montek Singh Ahluwalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aruna_Asaf_Ali" title="Aruna Asaf Ali">Aruna Asaf Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fazal_Ali" class="mw-redirect" title="Fazal Ali">Fazal Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adarsh_Sein_Anand" title="Adarsh Sein Anand">Adarsh Sein Anand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhav_Shrihari_Aney" title="Madhav Shrihari Aney">Madhav Shrihari Aney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkash_Singh_Badal" title="Parkash Singh Badal">Parkash Singh Badal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikander_Bakht" title="Sikander Bakht">Sikander Bakht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milon_K._Banerji" title="Milon K. Banerji">Milon K. Banerji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Hameedullah_Beg" title="Mirza Hameedullah Beg">Mirza Hameedullah Beg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._N._Bhagwati" title="P. N. Bhagwati">P. N. Bhagwati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_Chelliah" title="Raja Chelliah">Raja Chelliah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._K._Daphtary" title="C. K. Daphtary">Chandra Kisan Daphtary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niren_De" title="Niren De">Niren De</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._D._Deshmukh" title="C. D. Deshmukh">C. D. Deshmukh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Lancelot_Dias" title="Anthony Lancelot Dias">Anthony Lancelot Dias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uma_Shankar_Dikshit" title="Uma Shankar Dikshit">Uma Shankar Dikshit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazi_Lhendup_Dorjee" title="Kazi Lhendup Dorjee">Kazi Lhendup Dorjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Fernandes" title="George Fernandes">George Fernandes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._B._Gajendragadkar" title="P. B. Gajendragadkar">P. B. Gajendragadkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Gilman" title="Benjamin Gilman">Benjamin Gilman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isma%C3%AFl_Omar_Guelleh" title="Ismaïl Omar Guelleh">Ismaïl Omar Guelleh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakir_Husain_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zakir Husain (politician)">Zakir Husain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._R._Krishna_Iyer" title="V. R. Krishna Iyer">V. R. Krishna Iyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagmohan" title="Jagmohan">Jagmohan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmi_Chand_Jain" title="Lakshmi Chand Jain">Lakshmi Chand Jain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arun_Jaitley" title="Arun Jaitley">Arun Jaitley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aditya_Nath_Jha" title="Aditya Nath Jha">Aditya Nath Jha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murli_Manohar_Joshi" title="Murli Manohar Joshi">Murli Manohar Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anerood_Jugnauth" title="Anerood Jugnauth">Anerood Jugnauth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehdi_Nawaz_Jung" title="Mehdi Nawaz Jung">Mehdi Nawaz Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Yavar_Jung" title="Ali Yavar Jung">Ali Yavar Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Kelkar" title="Vijay Kelkar">Vijay Kelkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Raj_Khanna" title="Hans Raj Khanna">Hans Raj Khanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._N._Khare" title="V. N. Khare">V. N. Khare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagdish_Singh_Khehar" title="Jagdish Singh Khehar">Jagdish Singh Khehar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._G._Kher" title="B. G. Kher">Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akhlaqur_Rahman_Kidwai" title="Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai">Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jivraj_Narayan_Mehta" title="Jivraj Narayan Mehta">Jivraj Narayan Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Krishna_Menon" title="V. K. Krishna Menon">V. K. Krishna Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hirendranath_Mukherjee" title="Hirendranath Mukherjee">Hirendranath Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajoy_Mukherjee" title="Ajoy Mukherjee">Ajoy Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pranab_Mukherjee" title="Pranab Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padmaja_Naidu" title="Padmaja Naidu">Padmaja Naidu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venkaiah_Naidu" title="Venkaiah Naidu">Venkaiah Naidu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulzarilal_Nanda" title="Gulzarilal Nanda">Gulzarilal Nanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govind_Narain" title="Govind Narain">Govind Narain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fali_Sam_Nariman" title="Fali Sam Nariman">Fali Sam Nariman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hosei_Norota" title="Hosei Norota">Hosei Norota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanabhoy_Palkhivala" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanabhoy Palkhivala">Nanabhoy Palkhivala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Parasaran" title="K. Parasaran">K. Parasaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hari_Vinayak_Pataskar" title="Hari Vinayak Pataskar">Hari Vinayak Pataskar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunder_Lal_Patwa" title="Sunder Lal Patwa">Sunder Lal Patwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharad_Pawar" title="Sharad Pawar">Sharad Pawar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._R._Pillai" title="N. R. Pillai">Naryana Raghvan Pillai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Prakasa" title="Sri Prakasa">Sri Prakasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._G._Ranga" title="N. G. Ranga">N. G. Ranga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Narayana_Reddy" title="Ravi Narayana Reddy">Ravi Narayana Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y._Venugopal_Reddy" class="mw-redirect" title="Y. Venugopal Reddy">Y. Venugopal Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Mohammed_Sadiq" title="Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq">Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmi_Sahgal" title="Lakshmi Sahgal">Lakshmi Sahgal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._A._Sangma" title="P. A. Sangma">P. A. Sangma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._C._Setalvad" title="M. C. Setalvad">M. C. Setalvad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyan_Singh" title="Kalyan Singh">Kalyan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karan_Singh" title="Karan Singh">Karan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagendra_Singh" title="Nagendra Singh">Nagendra Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swaran_Singh" title="Swaran Singh">Swaran Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Sisulu" title="Walter Sisulu">Walter Sisulu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soli_Sorabjee" title="Soli Sorabjee">Soli Sorabjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyan_Sundaram" title="Kalyan Sundaram">Kalyan Sundaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sushma_Swaraj" title="Sushma Swaraj">Sushma Swaraj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandulal_Madhavlal_Trivedi" title="Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi">Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._N._Venkatachaliah" title="M. N. Venkatachaliah">M. N. Venkatachaliah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._K._Venugopal" title="K. K. Venugopal">Kottayan Katankot Venugopal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jigme_Dorji_Wangchuck" title="Jigme Dorji Wangchuck">Jigme Dorji Wangchuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Krishna" title="S. M. Krishna">S. M. Krishna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mulayam_Singh_Yadav" title="Mulayam Singh Yadav">Mulayam Singh Yadav</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Science and <br />engineering</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Aatre" title="V. K. Aatre">V. K. Aatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salim_Ali" title="Salim Ali">Salim Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Borlaug" title="Norman Borlaug">Norman Borlaug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar" title="Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar">Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajagopala_Chidambaram" title="Rajagopala Chidambaram">Rajagopala Chidambaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Correa" title="Charles Correa">Charles Correa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satish_Dhawan" title="Satish Dhawan">Satish Dhawan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anil_Kakodkar" title="Anil Kakodkar">Anil Kakodkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam" title="A. P. J. Abdul Kalam">A. P. J. Abdul Kalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnaswamy_Kasturirangan" title="Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan">Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana" title="Har Gobind Khorana">Har Gobind Khorana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daulat_Singh_Kothari" title="Daulat Singh Kothari">Daulat Singh Kothari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verghese_Kurien" title="Verghese Kurien">Verghese Kurien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Anant_Mashelkar" title="Raghunath Anant Mashelkar">Raghunath Anant Mashelkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Madhavan_Nair" title="G. Madhavan Nair">G. Madhavan Nair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roddam_Narasimha" title="Roddam Narasimha">Roddam Narasimha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayant_Narlikar" title="Jayant Narlikar">Jayant Narlikar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajendra_K._Pachauri" title="Rajendra K. Pachauri">Rajendra K. 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Blackwill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafeez_Contractor" title="Hafeez Contractor">Hafeez Contractor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indu_Jain" title="Indu Jain">Indu Jain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heisnam_Kanhailal" title="Heisnam Kanhailal">Heisnam Kanhailal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anupam_Kher" title="Anupam Kher">Anupam Kher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sania_Mirza" title="Sania Mirza">Sania Mirza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallonji_Mistry" title="Pallonji Mistry">Pallonji Mistry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saina_Nehwal" title="Saina Nehwal">Saina Nehwal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarlagadda_Lakshmi_Prasad" title="Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad">Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinod_Rai" title="Vinod Rai">Vinod Rai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._S._Ramanuja_Tatacharya" title="N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya">N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._V._Rama_Rao" title="A. V. 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Sutar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tejomayananda" title="Tejomayananda">Tejomayananda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">Vishwa Mohan Bhatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deviprasad_Dwivedi" title="Deviprasad Dwivedi">Deviprasad Dwivedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratnasundarsuri" title="Ratnasundarsuri">Ratnasundarsuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niranjanananda_Saraswati" title="Niranjanananda Saraswati">Niranjanananda Saraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cho_Ramaswamy" title="Cho Ramaswamy">Cho Ramaswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirindhorn" title="Sirindhorn">Maha Chakri Sirindhorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tehemton_Erach_Udwadia" title="Tehemton Erach Udwadia">Tehemton Erach Udwadia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2018</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pankaj_Advani_(billiards_player)" title="Pankaj Advani (billiards player)">Pankaj Advani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philipose_Mar_Chrysostom_Mar_Thoma" title="Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma">Philipose Mar Chrysostom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Dhoni" title="MS Dhoni">Mahendra Singh Dhoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kadakin" title="Alexander Kadakin">Alexander Kadakin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Nagaswamy" title="R. Nagaswamy">Ramachandran Nagaswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laxman_Pai" title="Laxman Pai">Laxman Pai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvind_Parikh" title="Arvind Parikh">Arvind Parikh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharda_Sinha" title="Sharda Sinha">Sharda Sinha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_T._Chambers" title="John T. Chambers">John T. Chambers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa" title="Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa">Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pravin_Gordhan" title="Pravin Gordhan">Pravin Gordhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharampal_Gulati" title="Dharampal Gulati">Dharampal Gulati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darshan_Lal_Jain" title="Darshan Lal Jain">Darshan Lal Jain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Laxmanrao_Kukade" title="Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade">Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kariya_Munda" title="Kariya Munda">Kariya Munda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budhaditya_Mukherjee" title="Budhaditya Mukherjee">Budhaditya Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohanlal" title="Mohanlal">Mohanlal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nambi_Narayanan" title="Nambi Narayanan">Nambi Narayanan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuldip_Nayar" title="Kuldip Nayar">Kuldip Nayar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bachendri_Pal" title="Bachendri Pal">Bachendri Pal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Shunglu" title="V. K. Shunglu">V. K. Shunglu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hukmdev_Narayan_Yadav" title="Hukmdev Narayan Yadav">Hukmdev Narayan Yadav</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div># Posthumous conferral <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1954%E2%80%931959)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)">1954–1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1960%E2%80%931969)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–1969)">1960–1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1970%E2%80%931979)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–1979)">1970–1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1980%E2%80%931989)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1980–1989)">1980–1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1990%E2%80%931999)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1990–1999)">1990–1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2000%E2%80%932009)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)">2000–2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2010%E2%80%932019)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019)">2010–2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2020%E2%80%932029)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2020–2029)">2020–2029</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Tamil_Music_Director159" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_%E2%80%93_Tamil" title="Template:Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_%E2%80%93_Tamil" title="Template talk:Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_%E2%80%93_Tamil" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Tamil_Music_Director159" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Awards_South" title="Filmfare Awards South">Filmfare Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_%E2%80%93_Tamil" title="Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil">Best Tamil Music Director</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1991–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2009</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharadwaj_(composer)" title="Bharadwaj (composer)">Bharadwaj</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharadwaj_(composer)" title="Bharadwaj (composer)">Bharadwaj</a> & <a href="/wiki/Yuvan_Shankar_Raja" title="Yuvan Shankar Raja">Yuvan Shankar Raja</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._V._Prakash_Kumar" title="G. V. Prakash Kumar">G. V. Prakash Kumar</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Imman" title="D. Imman">D. Imman</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anirudh_Ravichander" title="Anirudh Ravichander">Anirudh Ravichander</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2015)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="National_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Direction106" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #BDB76B"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:National_Film_Award_Best_Music_Direction" title="Template:National Film Award Best Music Direction"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:National_Film_Award_Best_Music_Direction" title="Template talk:National Film Award Best Music Direction"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:National_Film_Award_Best_Music_Direction" title="Special:EditPage/Template:National Film Award Best Music Direction"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="National_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Direction106" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Direction" title="National Film Award for Best Music Direction">National Film Award for Best Music Direction</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">1967–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Mahadevan" title="K. V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a> <a href="/wiki/15th_National_Film_Awards" title="15th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1967)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyanji%E2%80%93Anandji" title="Kalyanji–Anandji">Kalyanji–Anandji</a> <a href="/wiki/16th_National_Film_Awards" title="16th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1968)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Mohinder" title="S. Mohinder">S. Mohinder</a> <a href="/wiki/17th_National_Film_Awards" title="17th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1969)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madan_Mohan_(composer)" title="Madan Mohan (composer)">Madan Mohan</a> <a href="/wiki/18th_National_Film_Awards" title="18th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1970)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaidev" title="Jaidev">Jaidev</a> <a href="/wiki/19th_National_Film_Awards" title="19th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1971)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._D._Burman" title="S. D. Burman">S. D. Burman</a> <a href="/wiki/20th_National_Film_Awards" title="20th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1972)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> <a href="/wiki/21st_National_Film_Awards" title="21st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1973)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananda_Shankar" title="Ananda Shankar">Ananda Shankar</a> <a href="/wiki/22nd_National_Film_Awards" title="22nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1974)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Hazarika" title="Bhupen Hazarika">Bhupen Hazarika</a> <a href="/wiki/23rd_National_Film_Awards" title="23rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1975)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._V._Karanth" title="B. V. Karanth">B. V. Karanth</a> <a href="/wiki/24th_National_Film_Awards" title="24th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1976)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._V._Karanth" title="B. V. Karanth">B. V. Karanth</a> <a href="/wiki/25th_National_Film_Awards" title="25th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1977)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaidev" title="Jaidev">Jaidev</a> <a href="/wiki/26th_National_Film_Awards" title="26th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1978)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Mahadevan" title="K. V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a> <a href="/wiki/27th_National_Film_Awards" title="27th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1979)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> <a href="/wiki/28th_National_Film_Awards" title="28th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1980)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Zahur_Khayyam" title="Mohammed Zahur Khayyam">Khayyam</a> <a href="/wiki/29th_National_Film_Awards" title="29th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1981)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Naidu" title="Ramesh Naidu">Ramesh Naidu</a> <a href="/wiki/30th_National_Film_Awards" title="30th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1982)</span></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/31st_National_Film_Awards" title="31st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1983)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaidev" title="Jaidev">Jaidev</a> <a href="/wiki/32nd_National_Film_Awards" title="32nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1984)</span></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/33rd_National_Film_Awards" title="33rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1985)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Balamuralikrishna" title="M. Balamuralikrishna">M. Balamuralikrishna</a> <a href="/wiki/34th_National_Film_Awards" title="34th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1986)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanraj_Bhatia" title="Vanraj Bhatia">Vanraj Bhatia</a> <a href="/wiki/35th_National_Film_Awards" title="35th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1987)</span></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/36th_National_Film_Awards" title="36th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1988)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sher_Chowdhary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sher Chowdhary (page does not exist)">Sher Chowdhary</a> <a href="/wiki/37th_National_Film_Awards" title="37th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1989)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hridaynath_Mangeshkar" title="Hridaynath Mangeshkar">Hridaynath Mangeshkar</a> <a href="/wiki/38th_National_Film_Awards" title="38th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1990)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajat_Dholakia" title="Rajat Dholakia">Rajat Dholakia</a> <a href="/wiki/39th_National_Film_Awards" title="39th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1991)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/40th_National_Film_Awards" title="40th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1992)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_(composer)" title="Johnson (composer)">Johnson</a> <a href="/wiki/41st_National_Film_Awards" title="41st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1993)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_(composer)" title="Ravi (composer)">Ravi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Johnson_(composer)" title="Johnson (composer)">Johnson</a> <a href="/wiki/42nd_National_Film_Awards" title="42nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1994)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamsalekha" title="Hamsalekha">Hamsalekha</a> <a href="/wiki/43rd_National_Film_Awards" title="43rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1995)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/44th_National_Film_Awards" title="44th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1996)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> <a href="/wiki/45th_National_Film_Awards" title="45th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1997)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishal_Bhardwaj" title="Vishal Bhardwaj">Vishal Bhardwaj</a> <a href="/wiki/46th_National_Film_Awards" title="46th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1998)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismail_Darbar" title="Ismail Darbar">Ismail Darbar</a> <a href="/wiki/47th_National_Film_Awards" title="47th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1999)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anu_Malik" title="Anu Malik">Anu Malik</a> <a href="/wiki/48th_National_Film_Awards" title="48th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2000)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2001–2008</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/49th_National_Film_Awards" title="49th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2001)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/50th_National_Film_Awards" title="50th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2002)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar%E2%80%93Ehsaan%E2%80%93Loy" title="Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy">Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy</a> <a href="/wiki/51st_National_Film_Awards" title="51st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2003)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a> <a href="/wiki/52nd_National_Film_Awards" title="52nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2004)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalgudi_Jayaraman" title="Lalgudi Jayaraman">Lalgudi Jayaraman</a> <a href="/wiki/53rd_National_Film_Awards" title="53rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2005)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Patki" title="Ashok Patki">Ashok Patki</a> <a href="/wiki/54th_National_Film_Awards" title="54th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2006)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouseppachan" title="Ouseppachan">Ouseppachan</a> <a href="/wiki/55th_National_Film_Awards" title="55th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2007)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajay-Atul" title="Ajay-Atul">Ajay-Atul</a> <a href="/wiki/56th_National_Film_Awards" title="56th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2008)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2009–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DFD98D;width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amit_Trivedi" title="Amit Trivedi">Amit Trivedi</a> <a href="/wiki/57th_National_Film_Awards" title="57th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2009)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishal_Bhardwaj" title="Vishal Bhardwaj">Vishal Bhardwaj</a> <a href="/wiki/58th_National_Film_Awards" title="58th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2010)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neel_Dutt" title="Neel Dutt">Neel Dutt</a> <a href="/wiki/59th_National_Film_Awards" title="59th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2011)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shailendra_Barve&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shailendra Barve (page does not exist)">Shailendra Barve</a> <a href="/wiki/60th_National_Film_Awards" title="60th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2012)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabir_Suman" title="Kabir Suman">Kabir Suman</a> <a href="/wiki/61st_National_Film_Awards" title="61st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2013)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishal_Bhardwaj" title="Vishal Bhardwaj">Vishal Bhardwaj</a> <a href="/wiki/62nd_National_Film_Awards" title="62nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2014)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> <a href="/wiki/63rd_National_Film_Awards" title="63rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2015)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bapu_Padmanabha" title="Bapu Padmanabha">Bapu Padmanabha</a> <a href="/wiki/64th_National_Film_Awards" title="64th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2016)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/65th_National_Film_Awards" title="65th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2017)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjay_Leela_Bhansali" title="Sanjay Leela Bhansali">Sanjay Leela Bhansali</a> <a href="/wiki/66th_National_Film_Awards" title="66th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2018)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Imman" title="D. Imman">D. Imman</a> <a href="/wiki/67th_National_Film_Awards" title="67th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2019)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaman_S" title="Thaman S">Thaman S</a> <a href="/wiki/68th_National_Film_Awards" title="68th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2020)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DFD98D;width:1%">Background music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/57th_National_Film_Awards" title="57th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2009)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Thomas_Kottukapally" title="Isaac Thomas Kottukapally">Isaac Thomas Kottukapally</a> <a href="/wiki/58th_National_Film_Awards" title="58th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2010)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mayookh_Bhaumik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mayookh Bhaumik (page does not exist)">Mayookh Bhaumik</a> <a href="/wiki/59th_National_Film_Awards" title="59th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2011)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bijibal" title="Bijibal">Bijibal</a> <a href="/wiki/60th_National_Film_Awards" title="60th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2012)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shantanu_Moitra" title="Shantanu Moitra">Shantanu Moitra</a> <a href="/wiki/61st_National_Film_Awards" title="61st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2013)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gopi_Sundar" title="Gopi Sundar">Gopi Sundar</a> <a href="/wiki/62nd_National_Film_Awards" title="62nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2014)</span></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/63rd_National_Film_Awards" title="63rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2015)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bapu_Padmanabha" title="Bapu Padmanabha">Bapu Padmanabha</a> <a href="/wiki/64th_National_Film_Awards" title="64th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2016)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/65th_National_Film_Awards" title="65th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2017)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shashwat_Sachdev" title="Shashwat Sachdev">Shashwat Sachdev</a> <a href="/wiki/66th_National_Film_Awards" title="66th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2018)</span></a></li> <li>Prabuddha Banerjee <a href="/wiki/67th_National_Film_Awards" title="67th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2019)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._V._Prakash_Kumar" title="G. V. Prakash Kumar">G. V. Prakash Kumar</a> <a href="/wiki/68th_National_Film_Awards" title="68th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2020)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2021–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DFD98D;width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Devi_Sri_Prasad" title="Devi Sri Prasad">Devi Sri Prasad</a> <a href="/wiki/69th_National_Film_Awards" title="69th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2021)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pritam" title="Pritam">Pritam</a> <a href="/wiki/70th_National_Film_Awards" title="70th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2022)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DFD98D;width:1%">Background music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> <a href="/wiki/69th_National_Film_Awards" title="69th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2021)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/70th_National_Film_Awards" title="70th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2022)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Nandi_Award_for_Best_Music_Director97" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Nandi_Award_for_Best_Music_Director" title="Template:Nandi Award for Best Music Director"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Nandi_Award_for_Best_Music_Director" title="Template talk:Nandi Award for Best Music Director"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Nandi_Award_for_Best_Music_Director" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Nandi Award for Best Music Director"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Nandi_Award_for_Best_Music_Director97" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Nandi_Award_for_Best_Music_Director" title="Nandi Award for Best Music Director">Nandi Award for Best Music Director</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1977–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rajan%E2%80%93Nagendra" title="Rajan–Nagendra">Rajan–Nagendra</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Mahadevan" title="K. V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Rajeswara_Rao" title="S. Rajeswara Rao">S. Rajeswara Rao</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981–1990</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Naidu" title="Ramesh Naidu">Ramesh Naidu</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Chakravarthy" title="K. Chakravarthy">K. Chakravarthy</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Naidu" title="Ramesh Naidu">Ramesh Naidu</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Chakravarthy" title="K. Chakravarthy">K. Chakravarthy</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Mahadevan" title="K. V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a> (1987)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._P._Nayyar" title="O. P. Nayyar">O. P. Nayyar</a> (1989)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1990)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1991–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Mahadevan" title="K. V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raj%E2%80%93Koti" title="Raj–Koti">Raj–Koti</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhavapeddi_Suresh" title="Madhavapeddi Suresh">Madhavapeddi Suresh</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vandemataram_Srinivas" title="Vandemataram Srinivas">Vandemataram Srinivas</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Sharma" title="Mani Sharma">Mani Sharma</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vandemataram_Srinivas" title="Vandemataram Srinivas">Vandemataram Srinivas</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vandemataram_Srinivas" title="Vandemataram Srinivas">Vandemataram Srinivas</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2010</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._P._Patnaik" title="R. P. Patnaik">R. P. Patnaik</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Sharma" title="Mani Sharma">Mani Sharma</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._M._Radha_Krishnan" title="K. M. Radha Krishnan">K. M. Radha Krishnan</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickey_J._Meyer" title="Mickey J. Meyer">Mickey J. Meyer</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickey_J._Meyer" title="Mickey J. Meyer">Mickey J. Meyer</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chakri_(composer)" title="Chakri (composer)">Chakri</a> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2011–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (2011)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> & <a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devi_Sri_Prasad" title="Devi Sri Prasad">Devi Sri Prasad</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anup_Rubens" title="Anup Rubens">Anup Rubens</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickey_J._Meyer" title="Mickey J. Meyer">Mickey J. 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Devarajan">G. Devarajan</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Devarajan" title="G. Devarajan">G. Devarajan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Dakshinamoorthy" title="V. Dakshinamoorthy">V. Dakshinamoorthy</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Devarajan" title="G. Devarajan">G. Devarajan</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Raghavan" title="K. Raghavan">K. Raghavan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._B._Sreenivasan" title="M. B. Sreenivasan">M. B. Sreenivasan</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> (1974)</li> <li>Bhaskar Chendra Varker (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._T._Ummer" title="A. T. Ummer">A. T. Ummer</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Raghavan" title="K. Raghavan">K. Raghavan</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._B._Sreenivasan" title="M. B. Sreenivasan">M. B. Sreenivasan</a> (1978)</li> <li><i>None</i> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Amaldev" title="Jerry Amaldev">Jerry Amaldev</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._B._Sreenivasan" title="M. B. Sreenivasan">M. B. Sreenivasan</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_(composer)" title="Johnson (composer)">Johnson</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyam_(composer)" title="Shyam (composer)">Shyam</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyam_(composer)" title="Shyam (composer)">Shyam</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Devarajan" title="G. Devarajan">G. Devarajan</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_(music_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ravi (music director)">Bombay Ravi</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouseppachan" title="Ouseppachan">Ouseppachan</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Aravindan" title="G. Aravindan">G. Aravindan</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_(composer)" title="Johnson (composer)">Johnson</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perumbavoor_G._Raveendranath" title="Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath">Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Amaldev" title="Jerry Amaldev">Jerry Amaldev</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raveendran" title="Raveendran">Raveendran</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_(music_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ravi (music director)">Bombay Ravi</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Venkatesh" title="S. P. Venkatesh">S. P. Venkatesh</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berny-Ignatius" class="mw-redirect" title="Berny-Ignatius">Berny-Ignatius</a> (1994)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaithapram_Damodaran_Namboothiri" title="Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri">Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a> (1998)</li> <li>Sunny Stephen (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._G._Radhakrishnan" title="M. G. Radhakrishnan">M. G. Radhakrishnan</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raveendran" title="Raveendran">Raveendran</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._G._Radhakrishnan" title="M. G. Radhakrishnan">M. G. Radhakrishnan</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Narayan" title="Ramesh Narayan">Ramesh Narayan</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Sithara" title="Mohan Sithara">Mohan Sithara</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharreth" title="Sharreth">Sharreth</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouseppachan" title="Ouseppachan">Ouseppachan</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Narayan" title="Ramesh Narayan">Ramesh Narayan</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Narayan" title="Ramesh Narayan">Ramesh Narayan</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._K._Arjunan" title="M. K. Arjunan">M. K. Arjunan</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishal_Bhardwaj" title="Vishal Bhardwaj">Vishal Bhardwaj</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sushin_Shyam" title="Sushin Shyam">Sushin Shyam</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M_Jayachandran" class="mw-redirect" title="M Jayachandran">M Jayachandran</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesham_Abdul_Wahab" title="Hesham Abdul Wahab">Hesham Abdul Wahab</a> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Director85" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Director" title="Template:Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Director" title="Template talk:Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Director" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Director85" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_State_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Director" title="Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director">Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1968-1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Mahadevan" title="K. V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunnakudi_Vaidyanathan" title="Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan">Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan</a> (1970)</li> <li><i>Not awarded</i> (1971-1976)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar%E2%80%93Ganesh" title="Shankar–Ganesh">Shankar–Ganesh</a> (1979)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981-2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> (1982)</li> <li><i>Not awarded</i> (1983-1987)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1988,1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deva_(composer)" title="Deva (composer)">Deva</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1992,1993,1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deva_(composer)" title="Deva (composer)">Deva</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._A._Rajkumar" title="S. A. Rajkumar">S. A. Rajkumar</a> (1997)</li> <li>Bobby (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deva_(composer)" title="Deva (composer)">Deva</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001-present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirpy" title="Sirpy">Sirpy</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Srikanth_Deva" title="Srikanth Deva">Srikanth Deva</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuvan_Shankar_Raja" title="Yuvan Shankar Raja">Yuvan Shankar Raja</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a> (2007)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundar_C._Babu" title="Sundar C. Babu">Sundar C. Babu</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuvan_Shankar_Raja" title="Yuvan Shankar Raja">Yuvan Shankar Raja</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Imman" title="D. Imman">D. Imman</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Vinayakam" title="Ramesh Vinayakam">Ramesh Vinayakam</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghibran" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghibran">Ghibran</a> (2015)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Filmfare_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_–_South179" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #EEDD82"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Filmfare_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_%E2%80%93_South" title="Template:Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Filmfare_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_%E2%80%93_South" title="Template talk:Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_%E2%80%93_South" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Filmfare_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_–_South179" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Awards_South" title="Filmfare Awards South">Filmfare</a> <a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_%E2%80%93_South" title="Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South">Lifetime Achievement Award – South</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1983–1989</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sowcar_Janaki" title="Sowcar Janaki">Sowcar Janaki</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivaji_Ganesan" title="Sivaji Ganesan">Sivaji Ganesan</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thikkurissy_Sukumaran_Nair" title="Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair">Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Bhanumathi" title="P. Bhanumathi">P. Bhanumathi</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akkineni_Nageswara_Rao" title="Akkineni Nageswara Rao">Akkineni Nageswara Rao</a> (1988)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1990–1999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Padmini_(actress)" title="Padmini (actress)">Padmini</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._T._Vasudevan_Nair" title="M. T. Vasudevan Nair">M. T. Vasudevan Nair</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._V._Prasad" title="L. V. Prasad">L. V. Prasad</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemini_Ganesan" title="Gemini Ganesan">Gemini Ganesan</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Balachander" title="K. Balachander">K. Balachander</a>, <a href="/wiki/K._Viswanath" title="K. Viswanath">K. Viswanath</a>, <a href="/wiki/B._Saroja_Devi" title="B. Saroja Devi">B. Saroja Devi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madhu_(actor)" title="Madhu (actor)">Madhu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hrishikesh_Mukherjee" title="Hrishikesh Mukherjee">Hrishikesh Mukherjee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soumitra_Chatterjee" title="Soumitra Chatterjee">Soumitra Chatterjee</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagesh" title="Nagesh">Nagesh</a> & <a href="/wiki/Manorama_(Tamil_actress)" title="Manorama (Tamil actress)">Manorama</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishna_(Telugu_actor)" title="Krishna (Telugu actor)">Krishna</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sharada_(actress)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharada (actress)">Sharada</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nedumudi_Venu" title="Nedumudi Venu">Nedumudi Venu</a> & <a href="/wiki/S._Janaki" title="S. Janaki">S. Janaki</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allu_Ramalingaiah" title="Allu Ramalingaiah">Allu Ramalingaiah</a> & <a href="/wiki/Lakshmi_(actress)" title="Lakshmi (actress)">Lakshmi</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandari_Bai" title="Pandari Bai">Pandari Bai</a> & <a href="/wiki/Mugur_Sundar" title="Mugur Sundar">Mugur Sundar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Ramanaidu" title="D. Ramanaidu">D. Ramanaidu</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sheela" title="Sheela">Sheela</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2001–2010</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> & <a href="/wiki/Dasari_Narayana_Rao" title="Dasari Narayana Rao">Dasari Narayana Rao</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Raghavendra_Rao" title="K. Raghavendra Rao">K. Raghavendra Rao</a> & <a href="/wiki/Vishnuvardhan_(actor)" title="Vishnuvardhan (actor)">Vishnuvardhan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> & <a href="/wiki/Vijayashanti" title="Vijayashanti">Vijayashanti</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._R._Vijaya" title="K. R. Vijaya">K. R. Vijaya</a> & <a href="/wiki/Ramoji_Rao" title="Ramoji Rao">Ramoji Rao</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thilakan" title="Thilakan">Thilakan</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sukumari" title="Sukumari">Sukumari</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnam_Raju" title="Krishnam Raju">Krishnam Raju</a> & <a href="/wiki/P._Susheela" title="P. Susheela">P. Susheela</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivakumar" title="Sivakumar">Sivakumar</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jaya_Prada" title="Jaya Prada">Jaya Prada</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veturi" title="Veturi">Veturi</a> (<a href="/wiki/56th_Filmfare_Awards_South" title="56th Filmfare Awards South">2008</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambareesh" title="Ambareesh">Ambareesh</a> & <a href="/wiki/K._P._A._C._Lalitha" title="K. P. A. C. Lalitha">K. P. A. C. 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Muthuraman</a> & <a href="/wiki/Seema_(actress)" title="Seema (actress)">Seema</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bapu_(director)" title="Bapu (director)">Bapu</a> & <a href="/wiki/Vani_Jairam" title="Vani Jairam">Vani Jairam</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balu_Mahendra" title="Balu Mahendra">Balu Mahendra</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jayabharathi" title="Jayabharathi">Jayabharathi</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/I._V._Sasi" title="I. V. Sasi">I. V. Sasi</a> & <a href="/wiki/Radhika_Sarathkumar" title="Radhika Sarathkumar">Radhika Sarathkumar</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Babu" title="Mohan Babu">Mohan Babu</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijaya_Nirmala" title="Vijaya Nirmala">Vijaya Nirmala</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaikala_Satyanarayana" title="Kaikala Satyanarayana">Kaikala Satyanarayana</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hariharan_(director)" title="Hariharan (director)">Hariharan</a> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2020–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Puneeth_Rajkumar" title="Puneeth Rajkumar">Puneeth Rajkumar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Allu_Aravind" title="Allu Aravind">Allu Aravind</a> (2020–2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Srinath_(Kannada_actor)" title="Srinath (Kannada actor)">Srinath</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_–_Telugu100" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_%E2%80%93_Telugu" title="Template:Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Telugu"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_%E2%80%93_Telugu" title="Template talk:Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Telugu"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_%E2%80%93_Telugu" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Telugu"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_–_Telugu100" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Music_Director_%E2%80%93_Telugu" title="Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Telugu">Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Telugu</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilaiyaraaja</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. 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Meyer">Mickey J. Meyer</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2011–2018</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._Thaman" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Thaman">S. 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