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The Best Modern Tamil Music directors you should know (Post 80's -2017)

by Mazhalai | created - 23 oct 2020 | updated - 25 oct 2020 Public

I know many people can ask for the classic old Tamizh music directors who ruled the pre 80s era. But I am a person of 90s, it is unfair to say anything about our old classic music directors. The music and the song aren't just the sounds, they are holistically connected with the memories, the movie's content, actors performances, the picturization, the ragas and so on. So the list of modern music directors is a perfect pick for this generation of people. The Ranking and Numbers are just cynical. Each of them is individually at their best.

Ilaiyaraaja

Composer | Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja

Born and brought up in an obscure village near Kambam in Southern Tamil Nadu, Ilayaraja became the first Asian to score a symphony for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, besides scoring over 1000 feature films in a period of 38 years. Raja, as he is popularly known and affectionately called, comes ...

Isaignani Illayaraja sir is our Father of Tamil Modern Music system. He is the pioneer of Symphony Orchestra with Traditional Indian instrumentation. This BGM scoring genius has recorded around 6000 songs (including BGM) for 1000 movies in 40 years. The Industry believes that nobody has the dare to break this record forever. There is also record in mid 80's, for continuous three years, he has produced music for more than 50 movies per year. An approximate calculation: A single movie have at least 6 songs multiplies with 50 movies gives 300 songs (least) per year + BGM of 50 movies which defines his pure legacy. There is always a resemblance of his music notes with most of our Tamil music directors which are either they get inspired by his music or he has achieved everything. He is also holding a name that "Uncredited person of every Family card" in Tamil Nadu. If there is a statistics on every Child Birth for an hour in India and there is also a statistics of his song play for every minute in Tamil Nadu.

A.R. Rahman

Composer | Slumdog Millionaire

A two-time winner and five-times nominee of the Academy Award (Oscar), A. R. Rahman is popularly known as the man who has redefined contemporary Indian music. Rahman, according to a BBC estimate, has sold more than 150 million copies of his work comprising of music from more than 100 film ...

Isai Puyal A.R. Rahman is the most popular and the influential music director in India. He is one of our Identity cards for Tamil Nadu sometimes for the whole India too. 'New' 'Fresh' 'Different' 'Distinct' 'Typical' 'Unique' are the very common words for his every single piece of music. Though it may sound simple but to give a meaning of it in real is highly unimaginable. Of course, this genius is still doing it for the last 25 years. He was the one who has given a special status to Indian music which helped the International audiences to understand and listen to Indian musical system. He is the pioneer of Integrating the Indian classical music with the Electronic and world music orchestral arranging. His mix of Hindustani classical with electronica has its own flavors. The First person to bring out Rap, Pop, Blues, Electronica, and much more in India. His works of Sufi qawwali are one of the important explorations and very popular among the fans. The Mozart of Madras is the only person can do a Traditional music of different states and still make it to all type of audiences. His involvement with World filmmakers and musicians are also special to his name. Congratulations for his recent achievement of 25 golden years in cinema.

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Composer | Pudhu Pettai

Yuvan Shankar Raja is a composer, known for Pudhu Pettai (2006), Azhagai Irukirai... Bayamai Irukiradhu (2006) and Raam (2005). He has been married to Zafron Nisa since January 1, 2015. He was previously married to Shilpa and Sujaya Chandran.

U1 is the Younger son of Isaignani Illayaraja. To describe YSR in one word "Versatile". The Most explored Music director of Tamil Cinema. From the Rural Folk to the Urban Hiphop he has his own stamp of Music to his name. His collaborations with the Directors and the movies are quite unimaginable. You must know why he is so special in Tamilnadu? It is because of his various tie-ups with new directors and actors. Almost half of his scores of movies are with no identity backgrounds. The promotions and success of those movies are heavily implied with his name. This Youth Icon is the first to introduce Hip hop, Remix, Single track release culture.

Harris Jayaraj

Composer | Anniyan

Harris Jayaraj was brought up in Chennai, HE was born into a middle class Christian Nadar family. He studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, K. K. Nagar. His father, S. M. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to Malayalam music director Shyam and later became a noted musician and ...

Harris Jayraj is one of the Masters of sound clarity making. His songs and BGM scores are always crystal clear and finely tuned. Many of the Tamil audiences would like to check his songs first for their newly bought Headphones to understand the performance of it. His portrayal of songs and music is mostly Urbanized and heavily influenced by the world music. He always has the ability to make an album hit or at least a piece of every single album would make it a record hit among the audiences. Under his orchestra, singers mostly perform and sound differently than usually with the other directors. He always likes to use different world instruments, sounds, colloquial sounding words in his music. His important collaborations with GVM, Murugadoss, Jeeva, Hari, and Shankar are his best works which are very popular among the Tamizh audiences

Deva

Composer | Aasai

Thenisai Thendral Deva sir is the Father of Gaana genre. He is one of the important music directors to recognize high base voice singers in the movie Industry. The use of linguistic people's voice is also special to his name. Though Deva is known for Gaana music, but, he learned western music and has the ability to produce different genres under his name. His melodies and devotional songs are also chartbusters among the fans. Some of his best works are Annamalai, Batcha, Aasai, Nerukku ner, Kushi, etc. He is among the fastest to reach 400 movies in 20 years.

Vidyasagar

Composer | Mozhi

Vidyasagar is a composer, known for Mozhi (2007), Thavasi (2001) and Dhill (2001).

G.V. Prakash Kumar

Composer | Aadukalam

G. V. Prakash Kumar is an Indian Actor film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil films. His first film was S Pictures' Veyil 2006 and he became popular in Tamil cinema by the early 2010s. He made his Debut in acting on 2015 through Darling.

D. Imman

Composer | Kumki

D. Imman is a composer, known for Kumki (2012), Rummy (2014) and Varuthapadatha valibar sangam (2013).

Santhosh Narayanan

Composer | Pariyerum Perumal

Santhosh Narayanan is a composer, known for Pariyerum Perumal (2018), Madras (2014) and Saala Khadoos (2016).

Anirudh Ravichander

Soundtrack | Velaiilla Pattadhari

Anirudh Ravichander is an Indian film composer and singer. He made his debut in the Tamil film, 3 directed by Aishwarya R. Dhanush. The song, "Why This Kolaveri Di", that Anirudh had composed for the Tamil film 3, went viral on YouTube[2] and tracked more than 85 million views.[3] His subsequent ...

Ghibran

Composer | Thirumannam Ennum Nikkah

Ghibran is a composer, known for Thirumannam Ennum Nikkah (2014), Vaagai Sooda Vaa (2011) and Run Raja Run (2014).

S.A.Rajkumar

Composer | Aanandham

Sirpi

Composer | Varushamellam Vasantham

Vijay Antony

Composer | Naan

Vijay Antony was born on February 3, 1974 in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India as Vijay Chandraprakash Antony. He is a composer and actor, known for Naan (2012), Kadhalil Vizhunthen (2008) and Pichaikkaran (2016).

Shanker Ganesh

Composer | Pattikatu Raja

Devi Sri Prasad

Composer | Nannaku Prematho

Devi Sri Prasad is a film composer and playback singer in Telugu, Tamil films. His soundtracks have been dubbed or remade in several other languages as well. He is making his debut in Malayalam cinema with the forthcoming film Kandahar, which stars Mohanlal, Amitabh Bachchan and Surya Sivakumar in ...

S. Thaman

Composer | Dookudu

S. Thaman is known for his work on Dookudu (2011), Business Man (2012) and Aagadu (2014).

Mani Sharma

Composer | Okkadu

Mani Sharma is a composer, known for Okkadu (2003), Pokiri (2006) and Athadu (2005).

Nivas Prasanna

Composer | Sethupathi

Krishna Kumar, better known by his stage name K, is a music director and composer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In 2010 K was brought on board for director Mysskin's film Yuddham Sei and the soundtrack was a big hit and he also won the award for 'Best Background Score' for Yuddham Sei at the BIG 92.7FM...

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