He was married to Jeeva and the couple has three children - Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, and Bhavatharini - all of them are famous film composers and singers. He even learned Carnatic music from celebrated Carnatic singer, T.V. He is a gold medalist in classical guitar after learning the course through distance learning from Trinity College of Music, London. At a young age, he joined Master Dhanraj, a famous Tamil musician and instrumentalist to learn musical instruments. Ilayaraja was born in Pannaipuram, presently in the Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India on 2nd June 1943. He was also one of those earliest Indian film composers to utilize western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Tamil film music. Ilayaraja is popular in the music industry for his skills to integrate Indian classical folk music and traditional Indian instrumentation along with western classical music techniques. He contributes his voice in varied regional language songs, but predominantly in the Tamil language. Gnanathesikan, popularly known as Ilayaraja in the music industry, is an Indian film composer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, orchestrator, lyricist, and conductor-arranger.
The latest and hit Ilayaraja songs are a must-add in your playlist if you love listening to soulful Tamil & Telugu songs. His songs made us fall in love with our crush, made us dance our hearts out on the floor, made us cry for losing our loved ones, and filled rainbows on our gloomy days. He will be shooting for Selvaraghavan's 'Naane Varuven' and his two Telugu movies in 2022 while talks are on for more Hindi and Tamil projects.Whenever we talk about acclaimed Tamil singers who touched the strings of our hearts with their melodious voices, we simply cannot miss mentioning Ilayaraja in our talks. The talented actor's new movies ready for release in the new year are 'Maaran', 'Thiruchitrambalam' and 'The Gray Man'. Similarly the multifaceted star stated that his costar Sara Ali Khan used to call him Thalaiva on the sets of the film and he had requested her over a million times not to address him that way.ĭhanush said that to him there is only one Thalaivar and it is his father in law Superstar Rajinikanth and he will not take up that tag. He added that the maestro's tunes are like a mother to him and also his lullaby. The film directed by Anand L Rai has Akshay Kumar and Sara Ali Khan as his costars.ĭuring the promotional activities for 'Atrangi Re', Dhanush revealed that he considers Ilayaraja as god and adores him beyond words.
He is one among the few South Indian actors to have delivered super hits in Hindi and has now completed shooting for his Hollywood debut 'The Gray Man' directed by The Russo Brothers for Netflix.ĭhanush's new Hindi film 'Atrangi Re' is releasing on the Christmas weekend on Disney Plus Hotstar. Dhanush at a very young age has risen among the ranks of the best actors in Indian cinema.
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