Top BJP leaders including party president JP Nadda lost no opportunity in jumping to the maestro’s defence.
The Ilayaraaja’s Modi-praising foreword coincided with a recent summons issued to him from the Directorate General of GST Intelligence, giving them more fodder for suspicion. Digressing from the issue at hand, they faulted the musician for his inclination in following the footsteps of ‘Brahminical’ spiritual gurus, while seeking to alienate himself from his Scheduled Caste roots. The latter, a comrade, was said to have been hailed by former Kerala Chief Minister EMS Namboodiripad for helping the CPI win the Devikulam by-election in Kerala, staging propaganda songs with a teenaged Ilayaraaja, in the late 1950s. The critics felt let down by the man, whose career began on Communist platforms co-travelling with his elder step-brother Pavalar Varadarajan. However, another section was unsparing and took the criticism beyond political counter. Modi were placed and the nature of their vastly varying political contributions. There were dignified responses from a section including politicians, which argued the comparison between the two leaders was “irrational” and “inappropriate” given the different pedestals on which Mr. “Both dreamt big for India, but both are also practical men who believe in action rather than mere thought exercise,” he felt.Īlso read | BJP slams ‘DMK-led ecosystem’ for trolling Ilaiyaraaja The ‘Isaignani’ (saint of music), who has remained politically aloof, saw similarities in the two leaders saying they will witness poverty and stifling social structures from close quarters and worked to dismantle them. The sharper attacks were directed at Ilayaraaja after he penned a foreword for the book Ambedkar & Modi: Reformer’s Ideas, Performer’s Implementation, comparing and equating Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the father of the Indian Constitution BR Ambedkar. Despite being a part of people’s lives in Tamil Nadu and beyond, in a span of a fortnight, the two award-winning musicians were panned by rival ecosystems for expressing views of a political nature.
It is unlikely this will change in the years to come, for such is the magic of their creations. There is hardly any nook and corner in Tamil Nadu where the music of Ilayaraaja and AR Rahman, wizards of two different generations, has not touched the hearts and souls of people even in the contemporary world.
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