The Rajas, the Tamil film legends, who held sway over the Tamils in the late 70’s and 80’s have reunited for a new Tamil serial which is going to be telecast in Kalaignar TV shortly.
Both Bharathi Raja and Ilayaraja, both were new trend setters in the Tamil Film Industry in the late 70’s, with their epoch making and trend setting movies, like ‘Pathinaru Vayathinile,’’Kizakke Pogum Rayil’,’Puthiyavarpugal’ and ‘Sigappu rojakkal’etc all of them were box-office hits and silver jubilee movies.
But as time went on Barathiraja got estranged from Ilayaraja and engaged music director A.R.Rahman for his movies and of course gave only one hit, namely ’Kizakku seemaiyile’,but subsequently he met with repeated failures, the last one being his own production, the ‘Tajmahal’with his son as the starrer. But the movie bombed at the box office, because of the lack of natural flavor of the soil in the music.
When both Barathiraja and Ilayaraja became obsolete in the Tamil filmdom, naturally they came closure and reaffirmed their bosom friendship.It was Ilayaraja who was the chief guest for the marriage of Barathiraja’s son held at Cochin, a year ago. Now the friendship got strengthened further, both of them having signed for a Tamil serial in the Kalaignar TV.
On April, 14, the Tamil Serial with the title,’Thekkathiponnu’ directed by Barathiraja and the music for the serial scored by none other than the Maestro Ilayaraja, is being telecast in the Kalaignar TV. No doubt the serial will be a hit and refurbish the image of both the legends in the Tamil Film Industry.