Ilayaraja scored Annakkili in 1975, and ruled Tamil film music for 15 years as isai gnaani. He took the mantle from MSV, who continued to score great melodies until 1980. Here is the background music from some hit songs between 1975 - 1980. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Some films appear twice) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. ...
Share your OPML. Seems to be down, though. Comments rajkumarc 11 May 2006 7:54 am: 24/25 - Great work and kept me awake until I got it right. Couldn’t figure out what was song #23. S Anand 11 May 2006 11:59 am: #23: Kamal, Sridevi song. rajkumarc 12 May 2006 5:00 am: Thanks S Anand. I guessed it right the first time but typed in Sivappu instead of Sigappu and it was not accepted. S Anand 14 May 2006 8:25 am: Yeah, it’s a little difficult making tradeoffs on what variations to allow and what not to. ‘v’ maps to w, b, g… too many things.
Comments D 9 May 2006 11:45 am: Is x = 5 or am I being naive? S Anand 9 May 2006 4:25 pm: It’s just a funny “cartoon” I saw. The black scrawl is what a student wrote in respone to “Find x” Arun 10 May 2006 4:33 am: :-) lol! that is funny. D 10 May 2006 7:16 am: Thank God! Good one :) dc 22 Sep 2006 3:19 am: ha!!! is the red XO an Elliot Smith reference? who else actually solved for x? S Anand 22 Sep 2006 6:17 am: Uh, who’s Elliot Smith? Nattharat Suaysompol 27 Oct 2008 10:08 pm: MATH HUMOR!! vadivelan 14 Feb 2009 4:21 am: hi, i lough about 30 mts after seeing this. very funny. mr x 25 Sep 2010 5:18 pm: yeah thats wat i did in my maths exam…..haha.. Anamika 1 Mar 2012 5:31 pm: Elliott Smith is an American singer & songwriter. ‘XO’ refers to one of his lyrics (XO, Mom It’s ok, it’s all right, nothing’s wrong) from the song Waltz #2 Here you go & get the meaning of it: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/17346
10 ways to add variety to your digital photographs. Exposure bracketing sounds especially interesting. Comments Dhar 10 May 2006 7:29 pm: Err, this seems a sure shot way of never learning to photograph properly. The problem with this approach is that people just take shots and pray that things will turn out correct (spray and pray). It would be better to make LOTS of mistakes early on and get a correct idea of things like exposure and composition and then use Exposure bracketing. “when it comes to shooting lots of images - take note of what you%u2019re doing.” From personal experience, this is crazy. With film SLRs (at least the model I had), note taking was often required because info about shutter speed, aperture, focal length was not available otherwise. But come on, with digital cameras this is easily available in the EXIF data. And how many times would you interrupt your photography session to note down these details. I personally feel, the better idea is to MAKE mistakes. Dont bother with exposure bracketing, multiple shots with different focal lengths and the like. If your snaps dont come out right, analysis and comments from people who know photographic techniques will tell you what is to be done the next time and then your snaps will be correct. Sorry for the long comment, but felt it worthwhile to point out a different opinion. Cheers, D.
The 2000s saw the proliferation of music directors like Vidyasagar, Harris Jayaraj and Yuvan Shankar Raja, while Rahman still continued strong. Here is the background music from some hit songs from the 2000s. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Kaps 8 May 2006 7:33 am: Anand, All of them were pretty easy. scored 25/25. Can we have some tough / old ones please? S Anand 8 May 2006 8:33 am: Gosh, I honestly thought no one would get 25/25! Well, 1970s is next, and I’ll making that as tough as I can. RDX 8 May 2006 1:46 pm: when ar u postin e ans??? S Anand 8 May 2006 4:01 pm: No plans to post answers. You can always mail me, though. Anonymous 8 May 2006 7:09 pm: 23/25. isai inban. 17 & 19 :-( clue its there on the tip of the finger not able to type S Anand 8 May 2006 7:29 pm: 17: Madhavan, 19: Ajit riggy 8 May 2006 8:14 pm: aww…i’m pulling my hair out on this!! 12/25….good one anand..do post more of these!! aneetaa 9 May 2006 12:38 am: cudn’t find the last one alone…. gayathri 9 May 2006 12:52 am: any clues on the 15th? I cracked the rest … but no idea on the 15th! kummy 9 May 2006 1:41 am: hurrah i got 25/25 gayathri, its thotti jaya S Anand 9 May 2006 7:21 am: Actor for the last one: SJ Suryah Anonymous 9 May 2006 7:53 am: thanks. looks like i missed a particular md s in this and the previous quiz. I am happy i didnt miss any of gods creations ;-) isai inban zero 9 May 2006 10:20 am: 20/25 :(. I didn’t get 10, 15, 16, 19, 21. and I came dangerously close to getting it right only for 16. Damn this too ;) sudheer 9 May 2006 1:54 pm: Awesome quiz.. cos its awesome fun.. i scored 16/25… need to sharpen my memory more!! Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:10 pm: 15/25(that too cheated by typing some popular trash vijay movies).. I am definitely a 80s tamil hippie :) balaji 11 May 2006 8:50 pm: and i thought i knew tamil songs… sigh got only 15/25 vidhya 12 May 2006 11:29 am: great one! when i started out, i thought i wld nail them.. but then had to be satisfied with 20/25. super fun, it was. thanks shri 17 May 2006 9:24 am: cudnt find out 10,19,25,15 and 16.any clues pl.?wasnt tht bad.its really enjoyable and u feel so bad wen unable to find out the movie name PAPPU 1 Oct 2006 7:11 pm: I TS LITTLE THOUGH.CAN U GIVE ANSWERS FOR UNKNOWN ONE? Ranganathan 25 Oct 2006 11:03 am: Hi Anand… ! Ranga here… Tried this one too… 25/ 25… Great Quiz… ! Thanks… punitha 16 Nov 2006 10:41 am: great….now i know, i am not that bad…..25/25……. suresh 2 Dec 2006 4:56 pm: tried hard but could get only 15/25 …. any way i enjoyed Prin 11 Dec 2006 10:37 am: Got 22 out of 25 - 9, 12, 16 Help with these. Just can’t remember 16 although I can sense it Anonymous 24 Feb 2007 11:07 am: 25/25.15th was tough though Senthilkumar.S 24 Mar 2009 9:10 am: nice quiz… got 21/25. very close to the missed out songs… nazreen 9 Jun 2010 9:39 am: nice all quiz……really enjoyed…… nirmala 16 Dec 2010 10:13 pm: 24 out of 25 coulnt find 19…pls help…gr8 quiz though Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 12:14 pm: 25 / 25 .. yahhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhh :) ramya 16 Dec 2011 5:41 pm: plz tell the ans for 19 plzzzz :{ Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 2:22 pm: 19/25 B.Manivannan 26 Feb 2017 5:05 pm: nice to listen
In 1992, A R Rahman emerged. Ilayaraja may have scored more tunes until the first 3 years of the decade than Rahman did the whole decade. But the decade belonged to Rahman. Here is the background music from some hit songs from the 1990s. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Blogeswari 7 May 2006 5:10 pm: hi , posting all my entries.. prakash 7 May 2006 6:29 pm: 21/25 thennavan 7 May 2006 6:40 pm: 14/25; actually I know two or three more too but it is like at the proverbial tip of the tongue but am unable to spit it out :) lazygeek 7 May 2006 6:50 pm: again 25/25 anantha 7 May 2006 7:12 pm: 24/25 with my roomie blurting out the other even before i could try. Honestly i couldnt have got it, i think! Cipher 7 May 2006 7:38 pm: 22/25 - 1,5,16 theriyalaba :-( S Anand 7 May 2006 8:16 pm: Cipher, these are the actors who sang 1, 5 and 16. Lots of kids, Kamal (sort-of) and Arvind Swamy. Does that help? lazygeek 8 May 2006 2:09 am: cipher, semma easyba !! Bala 8 May 2006 7:00 am: Superb quizes! Thanks. Arun 8 May 2006 10:38 am: only 12/25. But knew 22-23 of the songs. If you had played a bit more, would have done better, methinks :-) Great stuff!! Priya 8 May 2006 4:32 pm: Hey, excellent quiz, I know I got all 25 right in the 1990s quiz and all 10 in the 1980s. But how do I confirm, my box deosnt turn green or anything. Is there any other way to track the score? Ashwin 8 May 2006 4:48 pm: 24/25. I could identify some songs in about .75 seconds. :)Same as priya. Box does not turn green though! Anonymous 8 May 2006 6:01 pm: 24/25. isai inban. i think its no.18 i am stuck on. Music is familiar was racking my brains for some ilayaraja number then thought maybe its arr by some strange chance. But cant figure. clue pls S Anand 8 May 2006 7:23 pm: No. 18 is not Ilayaraja, actually. S Anand 8 May 2006 7:24 pm: Priya, Ashwin: what browser & version are you using? S Anand 8 May 2006 7:28 pm: Clue for No. 18: the actor is Arjun. Aravind 8 May 2006 11:04 pm: 24/25. Couldn’t remember the movie for the 25th. zero 9 May 2006 10:12 am: Anand, The 16th is not playing. Couldn’t get the 6th. Damn! 23/25 :( Priya 9 May 2006 2:28 pm: I got 25/25….this section was quite easy Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:15 pm: Anand, I was stupid. I was typing song names Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:21 pm: one giveaway was that all clips were chronological P 9 May 2006 4:46 pm: Hi, I am stuck on 14….any clue plz Ashwin 9 May 2006 6:48 pm: 14 had Nasser in it zero 10 May 2006 5:07 am: Song no. 16 is still not playing for me. kummy 10 May 2006 8:18 am: got 24/25 any clue for 10th one S Anand 10 May 2006 2:55 pm: 10: Vineeth is the actor Karthik 10 May 2006 5:35 pm: stuck on 25th.. any clues S Anand 10 May 2006 9:19 pm: 25: Sung by Shankar Mahadevan SuperStarFritz 12 May 2006 3:20 pm: Got 23/25. Have no idea about 10. 23 I know the song, but can’t proceed from that tune onwards. Thoughts? S Anand 12 May 2006 9:07 pm: 23: Arjun song. janani 15 May 2006 2:24 pm: hey again, 18/25 on this one. am getting a tad better. shri 16 May 2006 3:00 pm: wow.got 25/25.cool.its so nice to play ths one. Anonymous 26 Jul 2006 2:24 am: couple of songs dont register..especially bombay and kaathalukku mariyaathai Ranganathan 25 Oct 2006 10:53 am: Hi Anand… Ranga here… How are you ? Came to know about this site… Quite Interesting… I am trying some of the quizzes here… This one I got 25 / 25 karthika 10 Dec 2006 3:44 pm: This site quite is interesting Prin 11 Dec 2006 10:19 am: Please help Anand, i have done everything from 1, 10-25. Others I need help considering i’m 14 and am a Londoner. Thanks sorna 31 Dec 2006 5:29 pm: 14 has nasar and revathi Seetha 4 May 2007 5:52 am: Not able to listen to the 19th one..it says not supported by the s/w :) Seetha 4 May 2007 6:21 am: Got 24 except for 19 :-)not able to lsiten to t :) kiran 16 Feb 2009 4:20 am: 25/25. Pretty easy though. (6 was a tricky one, common tune used by Raja in a couple of other movies) suriya 16 Mar 2009 3:25 am: 23/25…. help me with 6 and 10 plz… Senthilkumar.S 24 Mar 2009 7:28 am: got 23/25. couldn’t find 1 and 10. Gopi 27 Feb 2010 6:50 pm: Acheived 25/25 Sujatha 2 Oct 2009 12:17 am: Got 30/30. Selvam S 7 Feb 2010 6:09 pm: Got 24/25… can any one give clue for No. 1…. Archana 1 Mar 2010 5:12 pm: i got 23/25 ilayaraja 17 Jun 2010 2:40 pm: i got 22/25 Vijay 24 Jun 2010 1:07 am: Nice quiz. Got all right, but needed a bit of help on 18. Manoj 28 Sep 2010 6:53 pm: Very nice.. 24/25.. 6 theriyala.. TRG 8 Apr 2011 12:15 pm: GOOD I GOT 25/25 Charan 16 Jan 2011 1:03 am: 25 out of 25 ravindra babu hyderabad 18 Dec 2010 1:50 pm: nice quiz romba naalachi tamil songs kettu really superb quiz Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 12:03 pm: i got 25/25… yeahhhhhhhhhhhh…. :) Kannan 24 Oct 2011 11:35 am: Yes. Got 25/25. It’s like cake walk for me. Shobhana 17 Oct 2011 12:03 pm: hi.. i got 23/25.. missed on 6th and the 3rd.. the rest were quite easy.. can you please help with 3 and 6? thanks Srikan 11 Mar 2011 10:43 pm: Which name of the song from titel 12? das 17 Aug 2011 5:23 am: nan 22/25 than Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 1:56 pm: 22/25 Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:25 am: Yay!!! I got 25/25… nice quizzes Mr. Anand. It passes time very effectively..
Ilayaraja ruled the Tamil music industry in the 1980s. Below are short clips with the background music from his hit songs. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Anonymous 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: 9/10 lazygeek 7 May 2006 9:38 am: 10/10 S Anand 7 May 2006 9:55 am: I should’ve guessed you’d be able to get them all! Well, I’ve got a 1970s one coming up. Will try and make it a little tougher, just for you :-) prakash 7 May 2006 6:32 pm: 10/10 thennavan 7 May 2006 6:39 pm: 10/10; Compare this to my Rehman score and you’ll be able to reasonable say to which era I belong :) anantha 7 May 2006 7:12 pm: that anon comment was from me Cipher 7 May 2006 7:47 pm: 9/10 - 2nd is so familiar that i forgot it ;-) S Anand 7 May 2006 8:17 pm: Anantha, which did you miss? Cipher, the actor for the second song is Kamal. Cipher 8 May 2006 12:06 am: Was it tik tik tik or Sigappu rojakkal ? lazy geek 8 May 2006 5:09 am: cipher, it was andhi mazhai Anonymous 8 May 2006 5:41 pm: 10/10. isai inban. Aravind 8 May 2006 11:03 pm: 10/10 zero 9 May 2006 10:08 am: 10/10 kummy 10 May 2006 8:21 am: 10/10 janani 15 May 2006 1:48 pm: hey am pretty terrible at the 80’s music. hmm… does that mean i am ultra modern or just badly informed. nvm.. they’re just as bad. but it was awesome fun. going on to the 90’s one now. K.Shyam 12 Oct 2006 8:14 pm: 10/10 Peri 14 Oct 2006 4:58 am: hey wat is 5 th. It is verrry familiar but I couldn’t make it.Some Bharathiraja movie. That is sure !! S Anand 14 Oct 2006 6:54 am: Peri, yes it’s a Bharathiraja film. Hint: Karthik and Radha. ASHOK KUMAR 18 Oct 2006 12:04 pm: HELLO SIR I’AM ASHOK. I VERY INTREST YOUR ALL MELODY SONGS .SO I want to ilayaraja hit nengil nendra ragam.plese give to this alubm keyan 28 Nov 2006 11:20 am: not challenging illayrajas music is in blood sathish 6 Dec 2006 9:12 pm: got all 10.. It was easy one..took 5 minutes madhu 4 Feb 2007 5:15 pm: got 10/10 Seetha 4 May 2007 6:18 am: Got nine..Wats fifth??s t not alaigal oivadhillai?? its not turning green :-) sathya 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: i like illiaraja very much his music is something different from other music when i sleep at night fistly i hear illiaraja sir music then i myself sing then sleep Sridhar 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: 10/10 ASHOK 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: I LIKE THIS COLLECTIONS GOOD,KEEP IT UP. Ahamed 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: Your site has been one of my favourites.. Uniquely beautiful to see a great site in a web world of obscenity and vulgarity. Keep up the good work Vinod Tamodharan 15 Aug 2008 11:59 pm: I LIKE THIS COLLECTION Kavitha 16 Nov 2008 2:28 am: All Songs are nice Deva 16 Nov 2008 10:22 pm: 3rd one is en iniya pon nilave. i forgot the movie name. ashok kumar 25 Dec 2008 12:13 am: all songs are very nice and i give 10/10 kiran 16 Feb 2009 3:57 am: 10/10.. but beautiful collection. I am getting to like your site as well :) Ashokkumar 16 Feb 2009 1:20 pm: Hi Gentelman I am very like & love your all songs I have your music song but i need your old melody song did you send me pl pl pl pl pl ……………. archana 4 Mar 2009 1:08 am: 10/10 beautiful songs evergreen suriya 16 Mar 2009 3:15 am: 9 th i know the song..(poove sembuve) movie name dont know why do you need it? 3 Apr 2009 3:01 am: 10/10 for me. I love Ilayaraja songs. There is a torrent with over 4GB of free Ilayaraja mp3 songs. mininova.org. Enjoy…If there is a better site, please post… Selva 26 May 2009 3:35 pm: its interesting ya and i got all right Vishnu 5 Jun 2009 2:58 am: ha.. finally scored 10/10 on a quiz.. these are very good brain teasers by the way.. thanks for the effort :-) .. Vishnu Chnadru 13 Sep 2009 12:26 pm: Why is there no Panchu Arunachalam lyrics collection? Like kanmaniya kadhan yenabathu karbanayo………. DJ 7 Aug 2009 9:51 pm: beautiful songs brings back my beautiful memories…..its like my soul….Ilayaraja the GREAT!! these songs automatically giving a pleasant feeling to heart, can’t express it…. but i feel to listen listen listen… Sujatha 15 Sep 2009 8:45 am: 10/10.Very easy one.I enjoy these quizzes alot. sharanya 16 Jan 2010 6:03 am: It’s very nice & Interesting Anita 7 Jan 2010 3:40 am: Hey, i wasnt able to recollect even one movie, but all songs are my favs. Merlin 2 Apr 2010 7:10 am: I got 10/10 kutty 2 Apr 2010 4:27 pm: i got 10/10 mahi 24 Mar 2010 5:25 am: i got 9/10 .. i can’t guess the 6th song … S.Chandrasekar 2 Jul 2010 10:03 am: I got 10/10. This is just because I have lived with Ilayarajas songs . Vijay 25 Jun 2010 1:44 am: nice one. got 10/10. You site is quite adictive. senthil kumar 19 Jul 2010 9:08 am: dear sir, very mush ur musiq and songs so like this ur songs and musiq every body thanks for ur goods music …… Ramakrishnan 6 Jul 2010 3:34 pm: I LIKE VERY MUCH ILAYARAJA MUSIC Bcase of he is the ONE & ONLY Legend of Music.iam always hear his songs.He reveled the own culture in every songs. shanthi 24 Sep 2010 3:20 pm: very good collection…i got only 6 correct….its really interesting…I wish I know about this site earlier… vijayabaskar 20 Nov 2010 12:55 pm: pretty nice collection..its really easy to recollect the songs with the base tune… not realised that it be difficult to guess the movie name….just got 5 out of 10 303 14 Nov 2010 6:39 pm: yay!!!.. naanga pass aagitommmmmm…. :) .. adhuvum 10/10 :) TRG 8 Apr 2011 12:17 pm: I AM ILAYARAJA THEVARA RASIGAN 10/10 Kartick 14 Feb 2011 12:17 pm: @Sundar - Mella mella from vaazhkai.. guess u must’ve heard it in sarvam.. :) Sundar 13 Jan 2011 10:44 pm: could some one help me find this song . I can just remember the starting music i think this movie suresh and either nadiya or purnima jayaram or revathy acted . Please listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOOsnLaQPw you might know . Please let me know at [email protected] kagithan 1 Jan 2011 3:23 pm: 2m.. 3m.. theriyala ravindra babu hyderabad 18 Dec 2010 1:27 pm: hi nice to hear and collections Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 11:56 am: Easyyyyyy.. 10/10 kuttuvababu 25 Mar 2011 12:27 pm: very easy and popular songs DINESH 30 Dec 2011 10:16 am: NIZH, R.PARVAI, P.MUDIVATHILAI, M.VASANAI, V.KATHIRUNTHAL, S.BAIRAVI, M.RAGAM, N’GAN, S.T.MANASU, KARA’KARAN 10/10. BUT SONG 3 IS TRICKY Shriram 14 Jan 2012 4:34 pm: got 10/10 Anamika 12 Feb 2012 10:38 am: Pogum paadhai dhoorame vaazhum kaalam konjame jeeva sugam pera raaga nadhiyinil nee neendhavaa…! Arulselvam 2 Sep 2011 3:02 pm: 10/10 Nice collections viji 20 Jan 2012 12:30 pm: 80’s songs are classic, romance, simply superb, its creates magic when v listen those songs people just forget the problems for sometimes enjoy the life, hates off to illayaraja for giving those awesome music, especially kamal + ilayaraja combo is a magic das 7 Nov 2011 3:06 pm: yehhhhhhhhhhhhh nanum 10/10 das 17 Aug 2011 5:13 am: 9/10 vijay renu 15 Dec 2011 9:52 am: we got 7/10 Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 1:29 pm: 5/10 padmanaban 15 Apr 2012 6:59 am: Nice collection, good to listen best wishes. 9/10 Ulaganathan 5 Mar 2011 3:45 am: Yeah…. Aatha Naan Pass Ayiten. 10 out of 10. divya 6 Mar 2012 2:41 pm: i just love raja sir Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:10 am: I got 10/10 in this one too.. :) madurai mouli 6 Apr 2012 8:15 am: 9 answer than kandupidichen. miss aanathu 9 avathu pattu. gotha ,just’la missu. Kesava Pillai 20 Jun 2012 7:00 am: 9/10 ,பூவே செம்பூவே …மட்டும் என்ன படம் என்று மறந்து விட்டது … Malarvannan 8 Sep 2012 1:57 pm: 10/10 Panimalar 16 Jan 2013 6:09 pm: Easy. Got 10/10. Very interesting to guess. balaji 4 Feb 2016 9:45 am: wow ! 10/10feeling great Aravindan 7 Apr 2020 6:08 am: It’s ever green songs very easy to identify the movie.so nice
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Why Don’t Ad Agencies Advertise? Comments Sai 4 May 2006 10:39 pm: Thats hogwash Anand. Just my opinion. Sudheer 5 May 2006 5:50 am: Seems more like a crib article more than one which gives answers… S Anand 5 May 2006 6:09 am: I wonder, though: isn’t it true that ad agencies, in general, don’t advertise? Why is that? Sai 15 May 2006 11:16 pm: Don’t you think the reason they do not advertise in mainstream media like newspapers & tv is that it is catered to the b2c crowd. But i have always thought that Ad firms do advertise in magazines and such read by decision makers, thought that was the case. S Anand 17 May 2006 12:27 am: Quite possible. Even so, it looks like they advertise less than other industries. And that is odd…
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