Music composer Ilaiyaraaja, who shared a close friendship with Kalaignar Karunanidhi, is currently in Australia, performing on a musical tour that he had committed to over six months ago. The maestro is visibly shattered as he shares a video message on the demise of the former CM.
In his message, he says, “Dear people of Tamil Nadu. This is a very sad day for us. The death of Dr Karunanidhi is a sad thing, indeed. It is going to be a difficult task to overcome this loss and get back to normalcy.”
“Be it politics, art, literature, cinema, or Tamil, he excelled in all the fields he stepped into. This is such an irreparable loss. In the field of cinema, he was someone who gave us powerful dialogues in chaste Tamil. We can even call him the last screenplay-dialogue writer of Tamil cinema,” he says of his dear friend.
