Sivaji Hits - Vetti Veru Vaasam

This is a hit song  from the movie Mudhal Mariyaathai directed by Bharathiraja. The film's music and background score are by Illaiyaraaja who is in his element. The lyrics are by Vairamuthu. The movie had been a huge hit and had received critical acclaim as well. In this movie Sivaji plays the role of Malaichami Devar married to a shrewish wife played by Vadivukkarasi who had given a great performance. She herself had admitted in an interview that she had been reluctant to do this kind of a role but had been convinced by the director. This performance had opened up a new avenue for her and she has gone on to do hundreds of similar roles both in Movies and TV after this performance. Sivaji seeks comfort and solace in his friendship with a ferry girl who has arrived newly to the village called Kuyil played very well by Radha. The friendship raises eyebrows in the village and the story goes on. One can appreciate the subtle inner meaning hidden in the lyrics of the song which portrays the relationships of the two leading pairs in the movie. Sathyaraj has played a brilliant little cameo towards the end of the movie as a villain.

Sathyaraj Hits - Adi Aathaadi

This is a super hit song from the movie Kadalora Kavithaigal starring Sathyaraj, Rekha and others. This was the debut movie for Rekha. The movie was directed by Bharathiraja. Bharathiraja had the sentimental habit of naming the heroines of his movies with names starting with the alphabet 'R' (Radhika, Rathi, Radha, Revathi, Ranjani, Rekha....!). Sathyaraj had mentioned about his experience of having worked with Bharathiraja in this movie in a comical manner in an interview. Whenever Bharathiraja had enacted an emotional scene in front of Sathyaraj, to extract performance from him, Sathyaraj had actually found it funny and used to laugh, much to irritation of Bharathiraja! The music had been composed by Illayaraja.

Illayaraja Hits - Netru Intha Naeram

This is a hit song from the movie Tick Tick Tick starring Kamal Hassan, Swapna, Radha, Madhavi and others. The movie was directed by Bharathiraja. The movie had not done too well. This song features Swapna as the singer and Kamal as the photographer. The song had been sung by Latha Rajnikanth. This was the first movie which Bharathiraja had directed after Bhaghyaraj had left him and had chosen a genre which did not suit him. When ever Bharathiraja had chosen a city based theme he had mostly failed at the box office. Not that all his village based themes had done well too.

Kannukkul Nooru Nilavaa - Not an Illayaraja Hit!

This hit song from the movie Vedham Puthithu is not composed by Illayaraja! Many mistake it to be so. There was a period where Bharathiraja and Illayaraja had some problems and were not working with each other and this movie was one such movie and the music for this movie was composed by Devendran (a great composition).One other movie for which he has composed music is Mannukkul Vairam.