A disclaimer I wish to enter here (and this holds to every lyricist I am going to list) is that the playlists I share here are by no means exhaustive in an oeuvre of thousands of songs. This was a playlist of 52 songs I did of Vaali’s with IR.
Their combination began with Bhadrakali in 1976 and they have worked all the way to a yet-to-be-released film on Ramanujacharya. Vaali has written more than 1000 songs for Raaja, this being the most prolific association for Ilayaraaja as far as lyric-music goes. So to pin a person with such a career record down to any one lyricist (who is limited to the language he writes) is questionable.īut having said this is an objective analysis, I intend not to stop with such a superficial statement. He was the commercial numer uno in Telugu in the 80s, was briefly a commercial star in Malayalam and Kannada in the early 80s and a commercial colossus in Tamil through the late 70s down to the early 90s. That aside, he has composed music for about 180 films in other languages (roughly 80 in Telugu, 55 in Malayalam 25 odd in Kannada and not more than 15 in Hindi and 2 in Marathi). This is a humongous achievement in itself.
Raaja has composed close to 5,000 songs in roughly 950 movies, mostly all by himself (he has worked with MSV on occasions). I’m just trying to put all of that to test. Some of the popularly held beliefs in this topic include, “Raaja owed much of his success in the 80s to his partnership with Vairamuthu”, “Raaja’s humongous successes are with Vairamuthu and Vaali”, “Vaali and Vairamuthu have written the maximum songs for Raaja”. I shall try to be as objective as possible. You may consider this to be one such attempt. A prominent exercise involves trying to putting into perspective Raaja’s music with the various lyricists. Recently, I made a playlist on youtube of Gangai Amaran written – Ilayaraaja composed songs.
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