Cumulatively, Tamil electro synth-pop may even represent the triumph of import-substitution in cultural production. Besides reflecting national preoccupations, their absorption of transnational trends serves to show the global influences on Kollywood even before India’s liberalization in 1991. Here’s a curated playlist on Spotify!īy listening to, and looking at, electro synth-pop’s staging in Tamil cinema, we see how they were repositories for the zeitgeist, material and sonic culture of its time. If you’d like a soundtrack for your reading experience, we’ve embedded or linked in each song on YouTube.

Curated here therefore is an audio-visual playlist from that era as cultural artefacts for the unacquainted. While the record labels B-Music and Bollywood Connection have tried to compile a sample of some of these, the full auditory and ocular significance of Ilaiyaraaja’s compositions remains to be explored.

Ilaiyaraaja’s most prodigious output in electro synth-pop came in the years between 19. In the process, he also ushered in a digital revolution in music technology in India. South India thus opened another node in the global cultural flows of electronic music just as synth-pop in the west entered a period of relative decline. At times, he did so by fusing them with Indian classical and folk music forms. Though she has sung several chartbuster songs of Bollywood, she couldn’t achieve the same status which she received with south Indian language films.Ilaiyaraaja experimented with electronic funk and synthesizer pop. Rahman, Anu Malik and Anand-Milind, and rendered her voice for Kajol, Manisha Koirala, Karishma Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Tabu, Vidya Balan, Juhi Chawla, Raveena Tandon, Urmila and many leading heroines of Bollywood. Raat Hamari To Chand Ke Saheli Hai of Parineeti, Tu Maange Dil Main De Doon Jaan of Aflatoon, Dil Mere Tu Deewana Hai and Har Subha from Sooryavansham, Chup Tum Raho from Is Raat Ki Subah Nahi, Tu Hi Meri of Ada A Way of Life, Title track (sad version) of Pyar Tune Kya Kiya, Ghar Mein Bajti Dhun Ko Sun Kar from Via Darjeeling, Sawan ki Baharein and Zindagi Mein Tum Mile of Saza-E-Kaalapani etc are a few more. She sang the popular title track of Rang De Basanti aside Daler Mehndi. With the songs listed above, any melody fan can agree with the fact that she is indeed the queen of melody.

Malayalam Song Lyrics & English Translation.

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