Tamil songs by Ilayaraja in 1980s

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More songs by Ilayaraja, composed in the 1980s. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated)

Don’t worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green.

Score: 0 / 30
Song 1
Song 2
Song 3
Song 4
Song 5
Song 6
Song 7
Song 8
Song 9
Song 10
Song 11
Song 12
Song 13
Song 14
Song 15
Song 16
Song 17
Song 18
Song 19
Song 20
Song 21
Song 22
Song 23
Song 24
Song 25
Song 26
Song 27
Song 28
Song 29
Song 30

197 thoughts on “Tamil songs by Ilayaraja in 1980s”

  1. I identified only 18. but it is very interesting. Even they give 100 songs like above. its really time passing.

  2. Movie Name :kan simittum neram Song : unnai thotta thendral enru ennai thottu sonnathoru seidhi ullukulae aasai vaithu thalli thalli povathenna needhi.. please sent the song lyrics

  3. Hey! good one… i could get all 30 right …except for 26 which took some time to hit my mind…good work… thanks

  4. Hai Anand, hw r u? i like to down load the song ‘anandaragam’-panneer pushpangal. But i could’nt. hw can i?. pls .

  5. Hi, I was able to find for 22 out of 30 could u please tell me what is the answer for 2, 4, 5, 10, 15, 16, 18, 21

  6. Most of these bits have the movie name in the file info when played in Windows Media player!

  7. the clue u ve gvn s wrong.2nd s a movie starring karthik and 3rd s the one wth ramarajan

  8. thalaiva … thats just great collection. BTW, if you have the BGMs alone, could you put them as well ?

  9. The Quiz was great..I saw ur site today..I have completed 28..if you could give another 5 more seconds of music for the songs 10 & 11, i would appreciate

  10. Have you written the common.js yourself ? thats great. I would like to re-use/flick the “maptamil” function. You are quite wicked that you use one way SHA1 hash … there is no way to hack the answer (is there a way ?). So pls do post the answers ;-(

  11. Yeah, wrote mapTamil myself. Took me 2 weeks of testing on raaga.com — feel free to reuse!

  12. This is awesome work … nice pics …I got 20 … @5 …know the song ..dunno the movie … Can’t wait for your 90s and 2000 list … when can we expect that .. I can give you a list of these kind of marquee songs that people are expected to find in

  13. What’s the film name for 26. I have listened to that BGM several 100 times… but couldnt find the name… 🙁

  14. Hi,
    How your are managing your time for this?… songs in diff langueages, movie… and others.

    Its great stuff. I have gone thro your site/ diff experiences.

    Fantastic. All the best

    Prakash.K

  15. Very nice song from illayraja sir specialy i like song Tendral vanthu thidhum podu(Avadaram) i like so much becoz some time i think the song special to me….thanks for u sir>>>>>>

  16. hi friend
    fantastic work by u
    gr8 hits of ilayaraja still remains!!!!!!
    r u fan of ilayaraja
    reply
    regards
    balaji

  17. Great work..

    Found most of them. Can you tell me where the answers are so that I myself on the head for not getting that.. thanks

  18. Dude,

    I got 28 right. Song 26 song information clearly displayed in real player. Song 8 was a real challenge. Give me a clue.

    Regards,
    Barath

  19. I got all thirty. GREAT quiz. keep going. why can’t you try SPB’s songs? You can pick up all rare gems out of his 36K + songs.Thanks for the initiative.

  20. Hey, amazing work dude,, keep it up 🙂 but couldnt get 3 songs,, no 1 and no 10 & 26 , though 10 sounds very familiar and known,, pls do let know,,
    thankin you in advance

  21. This is a good one… I accidentally came to this site while searching for something else. I was able to listen to such nice bits after a very long time. It brought back memories. I don’t know how to get the results; but all answers were green. I am sure all of them are correct but I need to confirm.

  22. Hello All, I manage to score 27/30 – Box for song#18 never turned green despite the fact the answer is correct (I am 100% sure on the answer and my memory)

  23. Hi! I tried again and got a score of 28/30 – Song#18 and Song#26 are still eluding. Would you mind mailing me the answers to my email id? Could not resist the temptation of knowing the answers.

  24. hi, this is very interesting.i got 20 correct out of 30.and i want d answers for 4,5,9,11,16,18,21,26,27

  25. Dr SIVARAMAKRISHNAN

    I am highly interested because I am a thick fan of RAJASIR.Iam now at kerala .He won the hearts of malayalees too.His latest BHAGYADEVATHA songs are big hit.

  26. good collection, 29/30,one mistake is from song 23 .It is kathal oyivathillai .directed by bharathiraja .actors are kannan and radha .but it is not showing green signal

  27. It really brings out …. I cant express the feelings …his work is such a heart touching that a piece is helping us to remeber the song ,I know all 30 but am not getting the spelling rite….

  28. sir i like this type of approach very much and i enjoyed the same. i feel very interesting and spent my deep reactions in your quiz. thanking you and once thanks a lot for you.

  29. nice one anand… i got 27 though the other three i know the songs but not the films… good

  30. would like to know the answers for 30,16, 13, 12 and 7. i think it was pacha mala poovu from kilakku vasal. jst let me know the answers but i enjoyed taking it

  31. S.Thangakani,Tuty

    What a great quiz for ilayaraja fans.Keep it up Mr.Anand. I love ilayaraja songs from my childhood days.My best wishes to him.

  32. This is a good quiz.I remembered Raja sir films and i scored 30 out of 30,Good effort .

  33. Excellent Quiz for Raja’s fan.Could have been more challenging.Do you have moe quizzes for the maestro’s fans?

  34. Excellent Mr. Anand. Great effort. Once I was just dreaming about such projects and now you have made it a reality. Fine. Thanks a lot. By the way I scored 28/30. I can’t find the song No.1, but managed to idendify the song No.5 as “Puttham Pudhu Kaalai” but not sure about the “Film Name”

  35. hai……good effort.i accidently entered this website.after that i know its like a quiz………iam a great fane of ILAIYARAJAsir.i loved his songs…………thanks for giving this website to us anand……….expecting more from u like this

  36. Nice quiz. Myself and my wife could manage to get 29/30. Many thanks. However, Song 1 took one full day.

  37. Really Fantastic work Anand ! im a great fan of Raja sir… looking forward more and more from you.. i guessed 27/30.. can somebody help to find out 10,21 & 26.

    Awesome!!

  38. Hi Anand, really a good web site. I came to this site with a great hope. I am looking for a song which was sung by his highness isaignaani ilayraja himself – the song goes some thing like this “…unnadamale ponnagamaa marayidey…” may be the words which i wrote might not be correct but sounds some thing like that… pls help me…

  39. Hi and Hello,
    At last I have got the song which I was looking for – it is Thendral Vanthu Theendu bothu from Avadharam movie. 🙂

  40. Anand, If possible listen to the song ” nana yaar eval” from the movie ” Ninaya ninatha paathen.
    This is a movie which was not a hit, but this song i feel is awesome. Pls comment

    Saaju

  41. great feeling in answering the 30 wonders of the music world. i scored centum, and hope to score a real cent-um of isai kadavul’s songs. good work , pls continue

  42. hello,Ananad sir,I scored 29/30.26th song is your checkpoint.this song not hit song and song duration very low time.anyway Goodjob.all the best.

  43. Good one.. got everything except 26.. agree with angayarkannan, it isn’t a popular one i think so.. appreciate if answers are made available..

  44. Hi,i just want download maestro’s famous melody cum rap song casted by silk smitha in a bar.which starts from ‘la la la la la laa laa la la’pls i dont know the words.pls if somebody can help me it will be greatful.thanku

  45. @ selvam: can somebody help to find out
    10 : Film : Kadal meengal, Song: Thalatuthae vaanam….
    21 : Film : Agni Natchathiram, Song : Oru poonga vanam….
    26 : Film : Kozhi Koovuthu, Song : Annae Annae sippai Annae….

  46. Scored 21 out of 30. Except song No.1, I heard all the songs and the songs are very familiar. Even then I could not find out the film name. Thank you

  47. Hi

    I’m looking for an 1980’s ilayaraja song which goes like this “Kabiniyae, kabiniyae….unnnadum…vandaen.” Can you please help me get the right song /film details, so I can track it or download from somewhere?

  48. i scored23/30;good job; i could not remeber some movies name;i am one of the fans of raja sir;thank u anand

  49. I got 30/30. Was not easy. Some songs gave a very tough time especially 1 and 26. Great work Mr.Anand. It was like getting transported to the past.

  50. Listening to the songs (music) first few seconds also making me to enjoy it a lot… I could find all the songs first line.. But not the movie names.. Great collection. Thanks.

  51. Fantastic Exercie for our memory. Good work done by Anand. Long live Anand and Ilayaraja.
    I scored 29/30. I could not guess the song related to no.1 Anybody to my help?

    RCSekar-Chennai

  52. im great fan of raja sir………legend of music………………i got 29/30…………..i dnt knw 2 find song 18……………great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  53. Amazing collection and wat a composing guys. I got 30/30. Beautiful songs to here in night times. I think every one here will accept this comment. Thanks a ton.

  54. Excellen collections. Got full score… Actually this is kids play for hardcore IR fan like me. Thanks.

  55. Hi Anand

    Thanks for posting like this and post more raja sir quiz, I’m one of his greatest fan

    I got 27/30 pls tell me the answer for 7, 15 and 22

  56. illyaraja songs was gold. whenever i get tensed that time i listned raja’s songs all sads was gone. raja’s is best.

  57. Ganesh from N'Castle

    30/30, grown up with Illayaraja music. Part of life. For every song there has been special and unforgettable occasions and moments. Those days we our friends are very much eager to hear new songs, For us cassettes are expensive, In our town (Pudukkottai) one Tea shop who owned by Sathya ( He resembles Sathya Kamal having beard and styled like Kamal, so we call him Sathya) bought new releases we all our friends top up there hear music with ‘Dhum’ and Tea for more than an hour. 80 ‘s are the years which never come back again with full of joy and carefree attitude… Nothing But Raja’s Muzik…

  58. Ilayaraja Sir is like a guru to me. With his songs only I get interested into music. I am thankful to God to hear his music especially rerecoding and orchaestration. Thanks to share with everyone.

  59. Raja sir is Nature’s grand living sound instrument. The sequence of notes that hit one’s heart comes so effortlessly to this maestro that one remains possessed for the entire time listenng to his music. I am particularly awe-struck at all the intro bgms of Raja sir. They have a unique pattern which no other can imitate nor fathom. to cite an example just listen to the intro of the Nalinakanthi piece “enthan nenjil nee thane”. Raja sir has that uncanny knack of picking up the key notes of a raga which will not be revealed until the actual pallavi is heard. In fact his into bgms are itself a great rpertoire for research on chors and carnatic music.

  60. We, the Tamilians are gifted by having been born here., Sivaji ,Kamal., Ilayaraja.,Kannadasan-the supremoes in their art ,world class,,who could only be duplicated,not replaced.

  61. Nandakumar. P. B.

    Maesto is great and cannot express about him in words. His music is a soothing effect / remedy for day to day life complexes. Not like to stop even after repeated listenings. Some addicting magic in his songs and not seen in other musicians. So we like his musics done in 70’s, 80’s & 90’s etc. Thanks to God for getting chance to enjoy his musics.

  62. i got 4 out of 30.. i enjoys this quiz.. memory is out of date.. ha ha.. but i can guess al the songs..mmm really isai sidther is great…

  63. i wish to hear again the ilayaraja songs i knew all the songs but i typed the name it could not accept although i don’t bother about it because i love the all songs.

  64. Chanceless, What a legend, he is…..God’s gift to Indian music. Even a child will turn silent hearing his music. No words to describe…a heavenly feeling hearing his music. Should see him atleast once in my lifetime.

  65. Thanks a Lot. Please can someone tell the answer for 1, 10 & 26. Theriyama mandey vedichirum..

  66. No. 23 – Naan oru ponnoviyum kanden – Is it the movie Kadhal oviyum or Kannil theriyum kadhaigal?

    Anand, as usual outstanding stuff. I grew listening to these songs a million times. It did not take me more than 2 or 3 seconds to catch a song

  67. Chenbagaraman Natarajan

    Song7 – Kilakku vasal, song8- Michael Madhan kamaraj, and Song26 – Kozhi Kuvuthu..does not give a green to me –Y?

  68. Nice collections. What are the answers for Nos. 1, 11, 21, and 22? It was very nice answering the questions.

  69. song ,padiva thendrala .from move ,mudivala arampam. excellent guitar cords, and high frequienced drums ,i like this songs every time ,thank you

  70. It is very good idea, i am interested very much, every one loves raja sir will get 30/30

  71. @Eswar, 24– I think the movie you are referring to is valzkai and the song is mella mella enai thotu

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