Both Mani Ratnam and Ilayaja have been big legends in their respective fields. The growth of both of them has grown to an unattainable level according to the fact that Touche Telu is a hit. Both of them have worked together in many films in terms of cinema.
What they have in common is that both have their birthdays on June 2. Mani Ratnam and Ilayaraja’s first collaboration was a Kannada film. Mani Ratnam was a struggling director then. But Ilayaraja had achieved achievements even then.
It was a Kannada movie called ‘Pallavi Anu Pallavi’. After that they worked together in Mani Ratnam’s second film in Malayalam. ‘Pagal Nilavu’ was Mani Ratnam’s first film in Tamil. The song ‘Boo Malaye’ from the film became an unspeakable hit.
After that, the duo teamed up for the fourth time in the movie ‘Ithaya Koil’. Their combo was a huge success. After that they worked together in everyone’s favorite movie Mounaragam. It is known to everyone how the songs of that film recorded success.
Mani Ratnam and Ilaiyaraaja entered the Tamil cinema as a successful alliance by working in hit films like Nayagan, Agni Nakshatram, Geetanjali, Anjali. The film that came after that was ‘Thalapati’. It is known that the song ‘Rakamma Kaithatu’ from this film has made an impact till today. And this Thalapathy movie was the last movie they teamed up.
During this film, there was some resentment between the two. Because of that, Mani Ratnam did not use Ilayaraja. It was only after that that Tamil cinema was taken to a different direction by the arrival of Rakhuman. People started enjoying a new cinema with Mani Ratnam and Raghuman alliance. Chitra Lakshmanan told this interesting information.
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