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Illayaraja made his debut down South in 1975 with Annakilli. When in Hindi film music, Laxmikant-Pyarelal’s record of 480-plus films remains unbeaten, Ilayaraja has extended the parameters of the word ‘prolific’ by scoring a mind-boggling 848 films in two-thirds of their time period. The man under whom A.R.Rahman learnt the practical ropes, Ilayaraja made his Hindi debut in 1983 with Romu N.Sippy’s Sadma, some more films like Kam-Agni (1987), Mahaadev (1989),Shiva (1990) and dubbed and bi-lingual films from the South that ranged from the B-graders of the ‘70s and early ‘80s to prestigious ventures that include Appu Raja, Mayor Saab, Anjali, Dal-Pati, Velu Nayakan, Sazaa-E-Kaala Pani and Hey!Ram down to last year’s Mumbai Xpress. The whizkid from Chennai, who has also had the distinction of working on a symphony at London’s Royal Philharmonic.Here I present an evergreen number of the great Illayaraja-Yesudas magic
