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A. M. Rajah
Aemala Manmadharaju Rajah was popularly known as A. M. Rajah or Rajah.
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Adoor Gopalakrishnan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
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Anjali (1990 film)
Anjali is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Mani Ratnam.
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Annakili
Annakili is a 1976 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Devaraj Mohan, starring Sivakumar, Sujatha and Phataphat Jayalaxmi in lead roles.
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Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.
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Art film
An art film is typically a serious, independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.
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Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933), is an Indian singer.
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Bala (director)
Bala (born Bala Subramanian) is an Indian film directors, screenwriters, and producers, working in Tamil cinema.
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Balu Mahendra
Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran (20 May 1939 13 February 2014), commonly known as Balu Mahendra, was an Indian cinematographer, director, screenwriter and film editor who worked predominantly in Tamil cinema.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.
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Baroque
The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.
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Bassline
A bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as jazz, blues, funk, dub and electronic, traditional music, or classical music for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Bhakti
Bhakti (भक्ति) literally means "attachment, participation, fondness for, homage, faith, love, devotion, worship, purity".
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Bhavatharini
Bhavatharani is an Indian Tamil singer and music director.
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Bossa nova
Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.
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Budapest Symphony Orchestra
The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (also known earlier as Budapest Symphony Orchestra) (Magyar Rádió Szimfonikus Zenekara; MRZE) is a Hungarian orchestra,.
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Carnatic music
Carnatic music, Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam is a system of music commonly associated with southern India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, as well as Sri Lanka.
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Cello
The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.
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Chi. Udayashankar
Chitnahalli Udayashankar (18 February 1934 – 3 July 1993) was born in Chitnahalli, now called Chandrashekharapura, in Gubbi taluk, Tumkur district, Karnataka.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India.
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Classical music
Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.
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CNN-News18
CNN-News18 (originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Rajdeep Sardesai located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
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Counterpoint
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
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Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
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Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs.
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Dattatreya
Dattatreya (IAST: Dattātreya, दत्तात्रेय), Dattā or Dattaguru, is a paradigmatic Sannyasi (monk) and one of the lords of Yoga in Hinduism.
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Dholak
The dholak (ਢੋਲਕ, ঢোলক, ढोलक; ढोलक; dhool in the Netherlands and Suriname and ඩොල්කි) is a South Asian two-headed hand-drum.
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Dhoni (film)
Dhoni is a 2012 Indian drama film co-written, acted, produced and directed by Prakash Raj.
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Disco
Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
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Doo-wop
Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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Electronic keyboard
An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument, an electronic or digital derivative of keyboard instruments.
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Elegy
In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
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Elephunk
Elephunk is the third studio album by American group The Black Eyed Peas.
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Fazil (director)
A.
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Film producer
A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.
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Film score
A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.
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Flamenco
Flamenco, in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of Southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia.
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Flute
The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
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Fugue
In music, a fugue is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the course of the composition.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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G. K. Venkatesh
Gurajada Krishnadas Venkatesh (GKV) (21 September 1927 – 13 November 1993) was a prominent composer of film music in Kannada cinema during the 1960s, 1970s and until the late-1980s.
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Gangai Amaran
Gangai Amaran is a music director singer, lyricist, script writer, film director and actor in Tamil films.
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Genre
Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
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Gonjasufi
Sumach Ecks (born 1978), better known by his stage name Gonjasufi, is an American vocalist, producer, disc jockey, actor and yogi.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Gulzar
Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known popularly by his pet name Gulzar, is an Indian poet, lyricist, musician, composer and film director.
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Guru (1997 film)
Guru (literally: The Teacher / Spiritual Guide) is a 1997 Indian Malayalam-language fantasy film directed by Rajiv Anchal and written by C. G. Rajendra Babu from a story by Anchal.
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Hariharan (singer)
Hariharan (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback and ghazal singer, whose songs have been featured mainly in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu films.
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Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian classical flutist, who plays the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute, in the Hindustani classical tradition.
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Hey Ram
Hey Ram (translation: Oh Ram! or Oh God!) is a 2000 Indian historical fiction-political thriller film simultaneously made in Tamil and Hindi languages.
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How to Name It?
How to Name It? (1986) is an instrumental Indian-Western fusion album by Ilaiyaraaja.
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Ilaiyaraaja discography
The below list gives the upcoming/announced films composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian classical music
Indian classical music is a genre of South Asian music.
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Indian folk music
Indian folk music (भारतीय लोक संगीत) is diverse because of India's vast cultural diversity.
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Indian honours system
The Indian honours system is the system of awards given to individuals for a variety of services to the Republic of India.
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International Federation of Film Critics
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in Brussels, Belgium.
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J. Mahendran
J.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai)
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, (also known as the Marina Arena) is a multipurpose stadium and has a capacity of 40,000.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Jency Anthony
Jency Anthony is a South Indian film playback singer who has worked with film composers like Ilayaraaja in Tamil films.
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K. Balachander
Kailasam Balachander (9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian filmmaker and playwright who worked mainly in the Tamil film industry.
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K. J. Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian musician and film playback singer.
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K. S. Chithra
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer from Kerala.
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Kala (album)
Kala is the second studio album by English-Sri Lankan recording artist M.I.A., released on 8 August 2007 by XL Recordings.
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Kamal Haasan
Parathasarathi Srinivasan (born 7 November 1954), professionally known as Kamal Haasan, is an Indian politician, film actor, dancer, film director, screenwriter, producer, playback singer and lyricist who works primarily in Tamil cinema.
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Kannada cinema
Kannada cinema, also known as Chandanavana, Link referring rechristening of sandalwod as chandanavana at world kannada summit is the Indian film industry based in the state of Karnataka where motion pictures are produced in the Kannada language.
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Kannadasan
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Karthik Raja
Karthik Raja is an Indian composer based in Chennai, India.
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Kasinathuni Viswanath
Kasinadhuni Viswanath (born 19 February 1930; better known as K. Viswanath) is an Indian audiographer turned director, screenwriter and character actor known for his works in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi cinema.
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Kavita Krishnamurthy
Kavita Krishnamurthy is an Indian film playback singer.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.
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Kriti
Kriti (Sanskrit: कृति, krti) is a format of musical composition typical to Carnatic music.
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Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer.
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List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 1970s
This page lists the films composed by Ilaiyaraaja in the 1970s.
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List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 1980s
This page lists the films composed by Ilaiyaraaja in the 1980s.
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List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 1990s
This page lists the films composed by Ilaiyaraaja in the 1990s.
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List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 2000s
The following lists the films composed by Ilaiyaraaja in the 2000s.
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List of film scores by Ilaiyaraaja 2010s
This page lists the films composed by Ilaiyaraaja in the 2010s.
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List of Indian musical instruments
. Indian musical instruments can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).
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List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
India has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1957, a year after the incorporation of the category.
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List of songs recorded by Ilaiyaraaja
This page provides the list of songs sung by Ilaiyaraaja.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Lyricist
A lyricist or lyrist is a person who writes lyrics—words for songs—as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's melody.
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M.I.A. (rapper)
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (born 18 July 1975), better known by her stage name M.I.A. (pronounced as distinct initials), is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and activist.
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Maalai Malar
Malai Malar is daily evening Tamil newspaper.
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Malaysia Vasudevan
Vasudevan Nair (15 June 1944 – 20 February 2011), known as Malaysia Vasudevan was a Tamil playback singer and actor in the Tamil film industry.
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Mani Ratnam
Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), commonly known by his screen name Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema.
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Master Dhanraj
Master Dhanraj (also credited as Dhanraj Master) is a musician, multi-instrumentalist from Tamil Nadu, India.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.
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MIDI
MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.
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Minmini
Minmini (born P. J. Rosily, 12 August 1970) is a South Indian film playback singer.
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Miss World
Miss World is the oldest running international beauty pageant.
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Mridangam
The Mridangam is a percussion instrument from India of ancient origin.
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Music director
A music director, musical director, or director of music may be the director of an orchestra or concert band, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the coordinator of the musical ensembles in a university, college, or institution (but not usually the head of the academic music department), the head bandmaster of a military band, the head organist and choirmaster of a church, or an Organist and Master of the Choristers (a title given to a Director of Music at a cathedral, particularly in England).
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Music of Tamil Nadu
Music of Tamil Nadu has a long tradition and history going back thousands of years.
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Musician
A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.
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My Dear Kuttichathan
My Dear Kuttichathan (English: My Dear Little Ghost) is a 1984 Indian Malayalam fantasy film directed by Jijo Punnoose.
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Nadaswaram
The nadhaswaram, nagaswaram, or nathaswaram is a double reed wind instrument from Tamilnadu.
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National Film Award for Best Music Direction
The National Film Award for Best Music Direction (the Silver Lotus Award) is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards by the Directorate of Film Festivals to a musician who has composed the best score for films produced within the Indian film industry.
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National Film Awards
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremonies in India.
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Nayakan
Nayakan (also spelt Nayagan) is a 1987 Indian Tamil-language gangster film written and directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Kamal Haasan.
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Nizhalkuthu
Nizhalkuthu (Shadow Kill, Le Serviteur de Kali) is a 2002 Indian film directed, written and co-produced by Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
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O. N. V. Kurup
Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup (27 May 1931 – 13 February 2016), popularly known as O. N. V. Kurup or simply and endearingly O. N. V., was a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007.
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Oratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.
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Orchestration
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra.
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Organ (music)
In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.
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P. Bharathiraja
Bharathiraja (born 17 July 1941) is an Indian film director who works mainly in the Tamil film industry.
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P. Jayachandran
Paliyath Jayachandrakuttan, popularly known as P. Jayachandran, is an Indian playback singer and classical musician from Kerala.
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P. Susheela
Pulapaka Susheela (born November 13, 1935), commonly known as P. Susheela, is an Indian playback singer associated with the South Indian cinema for over six decades.
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Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.
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Padma Vibhushan
The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India; Bharat Ratna is the highest, Padma Bhushan third-ranking.
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Pannaipuram
Pannaipuram is a panchayat town in Theni district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Partita
Partita (also partie, partia, parthia, or parthie) was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor until 1722) and his successor Johann Sebastian Bach used it for collections of musical pieces, as a synonym for dance suite (see Bach Suites).
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Pathos
Pathos (plural: pathea;, for "suffering" or "experience"; adjectival form: 'pathetic' from παθητικός) represents an appeal to the emotions of the audience, and elicits feelings that already reside in them.
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Playback singer
A playback singer is a singer whose singing is pre-recorded for use in movies.
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Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Priyadarshan
Priyadarshan (born Priyadarshan Soman Nair; 30 January 1957) is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
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Prudential Center
Prudential Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the central business district of Newark, New Jersey, United States.
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Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music (sometimes psychedelia) covers a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.
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Pump organ
The pump organ, reed organ, harmonium, or melodeon is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame.
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R. Balki
R.
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Raga
A raga or raaga (IAST: rāga; also raag or ragam; literally "coloring, tingeing, dyeing") is a melodic framework for improvisation akin to a melodic mode in Indian classical music.
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Rajkumar (actor)
Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju (24 April 1929 – 12 April 2006), known mononymously by his stage name Rajkumar, was an Indian actor and singer in the Kannada cinema.
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Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu
"Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu" (English: Rakkamma, Clap Your Hands) is a Tamil language song from the 1991 Indian film Thalapathi.
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Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi (30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was a Hindu sage and jivanmukta.
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Resurrection of Jesus
The resurrection of Jesus or resurrection of Christ is the Christian religious belief that, after being put to death, Jesus rose again from the dead: as the Nicene Creed expresses it, "On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures".
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), based in London, was formed by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946.
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S. Janaki
Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938), popularly known as S. Janaki, is an Indian playback singer and occasional music-composer from Andhra Pradesh.
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S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (born 4 June 1946) mostly referred to as S.P.B. or Balu is an Indian playback singer, music director and film producer who works predominantly in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada cinema.
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S. P. Muthuraman
S.
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S. P. Sailaja
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Sailaja is an Indian singer and actress who has lent her voice to Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films.
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Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam (born 7 March 1969) is a playback singer of Indian cinema with a career spanning over three decades.
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Sadma
Sadma (सद्मा; Trauma) is a 1983 Indian romantic drama film, written, directed and filmed by Balu Mahendra.
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Salil Chowdhury
Salil Chowdhury (সলিল চৌধুরী; 'Solil Choudhuri' in phonetic Wiki-Bengali; 19 November 1922 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music composer, who mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam film and other films.
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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Award) (IPA:Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra) is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
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SAP Center
The SAP Center (originally known as the San Jose Arena) is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California.
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Sathyan Anthikad
Sathyan Anthikad is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for his family dramas in Malayalam cinema.
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Session musician
Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.
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Shankar Nag
Shankar Nagarakatte (9 November 1954 – 30 September 1990) was an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work in Kannada cinema and television.
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Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian playback singer.
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Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
Singeetam Srinivasa Rao (born 21 September 1931) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, composer, singer, lyricist and actor, known for his works in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films, across multiple genres.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Chembolu Seetharama Sastry (popularly known as Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry) (born 1955) is an Indian lyricist known for his works in Telugu cinema.
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Songwriter
A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.
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Sreekumaran Thampi
Sreekumaran Thampi (born 16 March 1940)http://www.mangalam.com/life-style/success/14967 is a lyricist, director, producer, and screenwriter in Malayalam cinema.
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Steel-string acoustic guitar
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the nylon-strung classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.
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Stephen Schwartz (composer)
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer.
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Sujatha Mohan
Sujatha Mohan (credited as Sujatha) is an Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam and Tamil movies.
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Swarnalatha
Swarnalatha (29 April 1973 – 12 September 2010) was an Indian playback singer.
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Swati Mutyam
Swati Mutyam (English: The White Pearl) is a 1986 Telugu-language drama film written, directed by K. Viswanath, and produced by Edida Nageshwara Rao.
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Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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T. M. Soundararajan
Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan (24 March 1922 – 25 May 2013), popularly known as TMS, was a great Carnatic musician and a playback singer in Kollywood for over six decades.
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Tabla
The tabla is a membranophone percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent, consisting of a pair of drums, used in traditional, classical, popular and folk music.
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Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is Indian motion pictures produced in the Tamil language.
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Tamil language
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.
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Thalapathi
Thalapathi is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language crime-drama film written and directed by Mani Ratnam and produced by G. Venkateswaran.
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The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas (originally simply Black Eyed Peas) are an American musical group, consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and formerly Fergie.
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The O2 Arena
The O2 Arena (temporarily the sponsor-neutral "North Greenwich Arena", during the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the centre of The O2 entertainment complex on the Greenwich Peninsula in south east London.
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Theni district
Theni District is a district of Tamil Nadu state in South India.
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Thevar Magan
Thevar Magan is a 1992 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Bharathan.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Tiruvacakam
Thiruvasagam (lit) is a volume of Tamil hymns composed by the ninth century Shaivite bhakti poet Manikkavasagar.
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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England.
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Tyagaraja
Kakarla Tyagabrahmam (4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847) or Saint Tyagaraja, also known as Tyāgayya in Telugu, was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music.
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U. Srinivas
Uppalapu Srinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was an Indian mandolin player in Carnatic classical music and composer.
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Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan Jha, credited as Udit Narayan (born 1 December 1955), is a playback singer of Nepalese descent whose songs have been featured mainly in Nepali and Bollywood movies.
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Vaali (poet)
Vaali (born T. S. Rangarajan; 29 October 1931 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian poet and lyricist whose works were in Tamil, had a five-decade long association with the Tamil film industry, wrote over 15,000 songs.
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Vairamuthu
Vairamuthu Ramasamy (born 13 July 1954) is a தமிழ் Tamil poet, lyricist and author.
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Vamsy
Vamsy (born on 20 November 1956) is a Telugu Indian film director, screenwriter and music director known for his works in Telugu cinema.
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Veena
The veena (வீணை, वीणा, IAST: vīṇā), comprises a family of chordophone instruments of the Indian subcontinent.
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Venu
The venu (Sanskrit: वेणु) is one of the ancient transverse flutes of Indian classical music.
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Veturi Sundararama Murthy
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Violin
The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.
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West Bengal
West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.
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World music
World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.
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Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja (born 31 August 1979) is an Indian singer-songwriter, film score and soundtrack composer, lyricist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.
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References
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