Ilayaraja songs - brings back old memories

Some of the melodious songs of Ilayaraja have become part of my life. These are some of the songs which always remind me of my childhood days since I grow up listening to these songs. I know I have company here because each and every one of us would definitely have some wonderful childhood memories and songs like these would definitely play an important role in bringing back those old memories.

I’ am putting across few such nostalgic songs of mine. When I listen to these songs, my heart beats faster and my mind races back to those vaguely glorious childhood days.
I have uploaded the full song here, so that you listen to it as well.

Rasaave unai nimbi.

RASAAVE UNNE | Upload Music
This is a very beautifully composed song by Ilayaraja, who has made sure that each and every tune and beats of this song touches your heart. It would be even more effective and romantic if you can understand the lyrics of this song. Though I cannot understand each and every part of the lyrics, when I listen to this, I get a feeling that a girl is waiting for her sweetheart to come back to her and she is very tenderly expressing her feelings towards him. This is one song which I used to listen a lot in one of our old recorded audio cassette. My dad had some wonderful audio collections of old tamil songs those days.

Vaan megham

vaan megham - original track | Music Upload
Another classic from Ilayaraja. Beautifully sung by K.S Chitra. Very very nostalgic song.

Nilaave vaa

Nilaave vaa | Upload Music
I remember this tamil movie ‘mouna ragam‘ where in a very joyful and full of life character played by actor Karthik, very much in love with the charming and beautiful Revathi, meets a tragic death in the first part of the movie. This song comes in the second part of the movie sung fabulously by SPB and no better song can suit the gloomy situation in the movie.

Antha nilaava than

Antha nilaavathan | Upload Music
This song is from the classic tamil movie ‘modal mariyaaday’. This movie is about a old man, the character played by the versatile actor late Sivaji Ganesan, one of the finest actors I have ever seen, falling in love with a girl of much younger age. Ilayaraja has composed this song and sung himself which again suits aptly to the situation in the movie.

Aalipazham

aalipaz - malayalam classic | Music Upload
This one is a typical Ilayaraja song. This Malayalam song from the 3D movie ‘my dear kuttichaatan’ is full of melodious background chorus and nicely supported by instruments commonly heard in many of his songs. Especially sounds good in the antra part and well sung by Sujata as well. You can immediately catch the innocence of the kids singing in the movie through this song.

As usual, the list is not over. I have many more such songs which are close to my heart but let me stop here and get on with my present. And I leave it to you to tell me which nostalgic songs comes to your mind.