Some nostalgic moments from a great lyric writer filled with respect and a musical feast of some of the most memorable songs in the Tamil film Industry's history made the function at the Kamaraj Arangam more memorable for the audience who had come there to attend the award function of the Rotary Club of Madras, Mylapore Uptown.
The person of the evening, the veteran master director K. Balanchander who was honored with the life time achievement award by the Rotary Club not only got another recognition for his great contribution to the Tamil Film Industry but also was presented with words of admiration from none other than the acclaimed lyric writer Vairamuthu.
The lyricist spoke about the film making ways of K. Balachander and said that he was grateful to the director for giving him work in three films 'Vaaname Ellai', 'Annamalai', and 'Roja', when he was without any work.
Vairamuthu said that the experienced director should be honored with the Dada Saheb Phalke award and also let the government of Tamilnadu his request for introducing a state award in the name of the legendry director.
Some of the songs which now have attained a cult status among the music lovers and which announced the coming of the future music wizard A.R.Rahman like "Kadhal Rojave" from 'Roja', "Veerapandi" and "Putham Pudhu Bhoomi" from 'Thiruda Thiruda' and the melodious "Anjali Anjali" from the film 'Duet' were sung by Chitra, Mano and Suresh of Sruthilaya.
Although the master director is not directing any movies nowadays, he is very active in the industry with production duties as he is producer of the superstar Rajinikanth's forthcoming film 'Kuselan'.
