This also pushed the new directors with new ideas of film making towards Illayaraja. Illayaraja was displaying extraordinary felicity in background music composition, an area which most Indian music directors never concentrated. These movies depended a lot on camera work and the background music to make an impact. The likes of K S Gopalakrishnan, with their reams and reams of dialogues had no place here. It was also the time when the films were becoming more visual than vocal. So he was saddled with old directors with old ideas, with people like Balachander being the exceptions. So MSV could not get to work on the movies which were like a new wave as far as Tamil cinema was concerned. These directors wanted a more authentic folk sound which they found in Illayaraja. 'Annakili' was the beginning and it picked up speed with the entry of BharathiRaja with 'padinaru vayadhinile'. The first one was the entry of newer directors who made village based films. I think there were two other factors which contributed to MSV's decline in those years. You can check out the movies with MSV's music in those years and you may be surprised that you don't remember many of them. While the songs like the ones I had quoted above did happen a lot of very middling songs also happened. 'kamban emandhan' from 'Nizhal Nijamagiradhu'įrom 1976 to 1983 MSV did close to 20 films or more each year but unfortunately the number of films that were major hits, the percentage of albums that were major hits and the percentage of songs that would go in MSV's canon were all decreasing. This was more in tune with his new sound.ġ978 had another K.Balachander film and that too carried a superb MSV melody in the voice of SPB. In 1978, the famous, 'therukovile odivaa' (I don't know how MSV allowed this !!) from 'Andaman Kadhali'. In the same year, for the K Balachander directed 'Avargal' starring Kamal and Rajni. 'malligai mullai' from 'Annan Oru Kovil' from 1977. Here is a standard MSV melody for Sivaji. He had to follow the same path in the coming years. Like this song from 'Polladhavan' for Rajnikanth, 'idho varandi varandi' This would be the sound MSV would use more for the newer heroes.
#AAYIRAM MALARGALE MALARUNGAL LYRICIST MOVIE#
Here is 'Hello My Dear Wrong Number' from the movie 'Manmadha Leelai' which also had the famous, 'manaivi amaivadhellam' K.Balachander was a director who is associated with novelty and his combination with MSV produced many a classic. We can take a couple of songs from 1976, the year Illayaraja entered, and see the above mentioned aspect.įrom the movie, 'Neethiku Thalai Vanangu', here is S.Varalakshmi singing, 'indha pachai kiliku' representing the traditional MSV. So in this period you will hear both sides of MSV, the traditional side and the modern one. The world of Sivaji and MGR which demanded a certain standard sound and the world of Kamal and Rajni which wanted a newer sound.
It was an era of change and MSV had to straddle two worlds.
Sivaji Ganesan was still a leading hero but slowly the newer heroes were replacing him in the box office. In 'Aboorva Ragangal' Rajnikanth pushed open the gates, literally, and stepped into the Tamil film industry. M G R would become the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 1977 and give up on movies. Gemini Ganesan, the king of romance, started fading as Kamal Hassan took over that space and was branded as the prince of romance. The old order was slowly getting replaced by a new one. Illayaraja's entry was not the only new thing to happen to Tamil film world in the mid 1970s.
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