Ilaiyaraaja's nomination was a bolt from the blue for a sea of people as there haven't been major speculations that the musical icon would get a seat on a towering floor. 

Ilaiyaraaja himself had said in an earlier interview that ‘A Beautiful Breakup’ was a challenging project as he had done music score for the Hollywood film.

Weeks after writing an analogy of comparing Prime Minister Modi with the father of the Indian Constitution Dr Ambedkar, the legendary musician has got a special birthday wish from Modi. 

It has now come to the revelation that Ilaiyaraaja has received summonses from the GST Chennai's unit for allegedly evading the service tax.

Tamil music director James Vasanthan has penned a scathing note against Ilaiyaraaja in which he asked what's his motive in hailing Modi on a similar scale to Ambedkar.

BJP national president JP Nadda had also supported Ilaiyaraaja and asked whether the musician was being insulted for supporting Modi. 

Ilaiyaraaja has written a foreword to the recently launched book titled 'Ambedkar & Modi: Reformer's Ideas, Performer's Implementation'.

Ilaiyaraaja has visited Dubai and after his concert, he paid a visit to AR Rahman's Firdaus musical studio in Dubai.

After a wait for several years, Tamil cinema fans had witnessed a relishing reunion on Wednesday where Ilaiyaraaja and Gangai Amaren had met each other.

The legendary music director will be pioneering the efforts of a space team and his song will be orbiting in the outer space in a satellite.