RAAJA'S SONGS & BGMS REUSED IN CURRENT MOVIES

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http://www.desipundit.com/baradwajra...mine-a-double/

B Rangan once again talks about the phenomenon of using IR songs in current movies

YOU DON’T NEED TO KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN to see that Vasanth’s new telefilm – Visaranai Commission, shaped for Doordarshan and sourced from Sa Kandasamy’s Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel – is rooted in the senses and the sensibilities of The New Tamil Cinema. You just need your ears. You just need to listen to the soundtrack spilling over with Kannan oru kaikuzhandhai and Ponmaalai pozhudhu and Ennadi Meenatchi and En vaanile ore vennila. What is it about Ilayaraja’s glorious early period that today’s filmmakers seek to recapture in their works? Is it just a whiff of a particular time – and if that is all, why not sneak in the occasional chartbuster by Shankar-Ganesh or T Rajendar or even Chandrabose? Or is the connection more personal, a declaration that this is the music these filmmakers were weaned on, this is the music that became milestones along the way to where they are today?

That, thankfully, is not the only way Visaranai Commission slots itself alongside the likes of Subramaniyapuram and Pasanga.

Right from early 2000's Iam Observing this phenomenon of Using Raaja's songs to add an effect (or) to rekindle the memories (or) to add a comical effect. It has just gone to an extent today that every film has atleat one Raaja song along the lines of reason mentioned herein.
I Was watching 'Nadodigal' Yesterday and saw the song 'Antha Vanathai pola manam padaicha' used in a comical scene and started off with a discussion wherein who started this trend for comical effect? I didnt remember then But said, It Should be Raaja, as I vaguely remembered some Goundamani scenes with Raaja's own earlier hits... Here is one which came to my mind now - from Raajakumaran. Using 'Raasathi unnai kaanatha nenju'. Lets start discussing this trend and try to recollect Where else Raaja has redone his own songs to add an effect in BGM.