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Utube ilaya raja movie songs7/2/2023 Like most social/cultural phenomena, the answer is a little complex and involves several variables. So here are some questions: Was Hindi music popular all over Tamil Nadu before Raja came? Or was it just Chennai? So we want them to have performed superhuman acts not just in their field (music, in this case) but in the cultural space of the times. I don’t doubt where and how this urban myth comes from: we like to deify our deities. And as I began to explore non-MSV 60s/70s Tamil music, my doubts grew further. I have asked many people born in the 1950s and 60s about this - family and others. So this comes from a recent comment from a reader (as it keeps coming up) that in the 1970s, Tamils were under sway to Hindi film music until the arrival of Ilaiyaraaja brought them back to Tamil music.
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