Live
- Odisha holds successful mega investors roadshow in Singapore
- PGTI Tour: Top stars to fight for honours in Servo Masters Golf
- SC upholds termination of LIC employee for absenting himself without intimation
- ‘Stone me or shoot me, won’t spare anyone,’ says Anil Deshmukh after discharge
- Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar turning Karnataka into Pakistan: K’taka BJP
- Zimbabwe records 70 suspected cholera cases, one death amid new outbreak
- Babri demolition day: No Assembly proceedings in Bengal on Dec 6
- Typhoon Man-yi suspends ferries, submerges streets in China
- 2400 youths get jobs with big firms under NSDC scheme
- Govt prioritising road connectivity in remote areas: Himachal CM
Ilayaraja comes in support of Pak artistes, says music knows no boundaries
Legendary Tamil songwriter and composer Ilayaraja has said music transcends countries and knows no boundaries, in wake of the ongoing row over MNS threat to Pakistani artistes to leave India.
​Washington: Legendary Tamil songwriter and composer Ilayaraja has said music transcends countries and knows no boundaries, in wake of the ongoing row over MNS threat to Pakistani artistes to leave India.
"In music there is no country, there is no time... No nothing. Music is music," Ilayaraja told mediapersons during a news conference here yesterday. Ilayaraja, 73, is currently on a tour of several US cities.
A day earlier he performed live in New Jersey and his show was attended by thousands of Indian-Americans in a suburb of Washington DC, his first performance ever in the national capital area.
The tour has been organised to commemorate Ilayaraja's achievement of composing music for over thousand films, said Rjan Natarajan, a former Maryland Secretary of State and an official in the Clinton Campaign.
Ilayaraja refused to comment on his impression about A R Rahman, who at the beginning of his career worked with him. "Why do you ask me (about A R Rahman)? You have the respect. You have an idea about him, you have it," he told a popular local Indian American television anchor when asked about A R Rahman.
"But you should not expect that I must have the same expression," Ilayaraja said.
Days after the Uri terrorist attack in which 18 Indian soldiers were killed, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) had asked Pakistani actors to leave India within 48 hours. The threat came from Amey Khopkar of MNS Chitrapat Sena.
