Even for the outsiders who came to live here, living
without Ilayaraja’s Music is not possible in Tamilnadu. That is the impact of
his songs done so far in the last four decades. Even one didn’t like Ilayaraja,
and one who didn’t like even films also will like the music of Ilayaraja. There
is no doubt about it.
But today a doubt raised in my mind. Ilayaraja himself
told that he is not a good musician. Even he told it indirectly, is any truth
in that?
Ilayaraja had denied to receive the national award on
the stage from The President of India, for the best background music 2015.
Because he didn’t like the bifurcation of the award for best music to best
music for the songs and best background music.
He felt that the award committee didn’t assess his
works totally, or they didn’t honour his caliber fully. He think that giving
away the award for the best music for songs to someone, and giving only the
award to him for the background is not fare. He felt that denying the award for
best music for the songs is an attempt to degrade him.
Ilayaraja is a master in both music, ie., is music for
songs and background music. There is no doubt for anyone in it for the last four
decades.
But the awards are not for the persons. They are not
given to persons on the basis of talent. They are given for the selected best
work of that year. So, giving an award will not be an assessment of a man.
When compared to the others, the selected work may be
the best one among the works done in that particular year. That didn’t means
that all other works are bad or other creators are bad.
In the last forty years Ilayaraja got this award only
four times. If his opinion is correct, he might be a bad music director for the
rest 36 years! And we all are bearing his works as treasure.
His songs are the number one in the list of music liked
by the people in this world today. In total, one thing is true! His music is
eternal, but as a person, he is a bad musician!
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