He kept silent to all the questions posed by the reporters, but kept staring at the opposite side. After the function, when Naushadji came out of the venue, he was surrounded by press reporters.
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The venue is the movie theatre opposite to the park where Naushadji spent his early days in Mumbai. Years later, a function was organised to celebrate the silver jubilee of a movie for which Naushadji had scored the music. Finally, after so many years of hard work, he became an independent music composer. With the acquaintance of other musicians, he learnt to play the piano, became their assistants. After so many hurdles, he some how got a job of piano tuner in a film studio. When Naushadji was 17 years and new to Mumbai, he seemed to have spent most of his time on a cement bench in a park that was opposite a movie theatre. Of all the conversations Ilaiyaraaga had with the great musician, Naushad, he says the narration of his early years in Mumbai are the most unforgettable. Tyagarajar died in 1847 and is buried at the banks of river Kaveri (Cauvery) at Thiruvaiyaru in Tamil Nadu. The special cover issued in 2017 by South India Philatelists’ Association (SIPA) commemorates 250 years of Tyagarajar. Tyagaraja was born in 1767 at Tiruvarur in Tamil Nadu. Since, it was found that the music helps to increase the children’s memory, they play Mozart’s music on a daily basis. In a school in Australia, they play Mozart music for the students before teaching. To a different question, he says about a research, which indicates that among the world musicians, it is only Mozart’s music that activates the human brain cells more. Ilaiyaraaja says that writing a musical score including all the parts after listening to it just once is almost impossible. It seems that Mozart’s father almost cried after seeing his musical score. He visits the church next day to make any corrections in his score for that music, if any. On the same night, Mozart, who heard that music only once at the church, was able to write the complete score for that music. There was a music being played at the church at that time and Mozart mentally took note of it. He gets a prize from the pope for his musical skills. Mozart goes to Paris with his father to play before a pope. He mentions the incident that happened when Mozart was 11. However, he says there is no one like Mozart.
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To a question about who is the most talented among the world musicians, Ilaiyaraaja says that in general all famous musical geniuses are different. I never thought that such a great king who ruled south Asia would have had such a tragic end. He wondered what remedy was done for this as darshans are held these days in the temple. For a long time, no darshans were performed in the temple after the king’s death.
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He also mentions that lot of government officers and well known people who have visited the temple have lost their jobs. Ilaiyaraaja mentions that there is proof of this information in the Chennai Connemara Library.
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Before passing away, he seemed to have cursed the king that whoever visits this temple will lose their jobs.Ī month later, unable to cope with Karuvurar’s curse, the king went to the top of the temple and jumped to his death. He dig a burial hole near the temple, sat in it, and gave his life. This angered Karuvurar so much that he decided to give away his life immediately. To satisfy his ministers and palace astrologers, the king followed only half of the Karuvurar’s instructions. However, the king did not completely follow the instructions given for the temple’s consecration (kumbhabhishekam). Ilaiyaraaja mentions that the great king Raja Raja Cholan constructed the Big Temple at Tanjavur based on the guidelines from Siddhar Karuvurar.
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One of the readers asked about Siddhar Karuvurar. I am sharing few of those here along with related stamps from my personal collection. The two books contained some interesting facts. Two books of Ilaiyaraaja Interesting Facts from the Books