As a Tamizhan, I like Tamizh songs a lot. This is one of the best songs I came across. But Deva has made a clean lift from end to end of a hindi song of 1951, composed by Naushad.
'Jab Nain Mile Naino se'
Those who have music knowledge can also realize that even the stanza part is ...
I wonder why hindi music directors are not even 1% of our Tamil thalaivar AR Rahman. hindi fellows used to have some good musicians in 60s and 70s. Why not now ?
Laxmikant Pyarelal clearly lifted this song from the original Tamil version ' Nila athu vanathu mele' from movie 'Nayagan' done by universal star Kamal Hasan.
In the original version, the music was none other than Maestro Ilayaraja.
By the way, Dayavan itself was remade from Nayagan.
We are extremely proud of and thankful to our prince of Tamil music isai puyal AR Rahman, to have beautifully crafted this song.