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^ a b c "40 Years Of Moondram Pirai - Balu Mahendra, Kamal Haasan, Sridevi & Ilaiyaraaja's classic film".Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. ^ a b c Rangarajan, Malathi (1 July 2005).Archived from the original on 28 November 2014. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. ^ "HC restrains firms from selling Ilayaraja's songs".Archived from the original on 15 December 2014. ^ a b c "Moondram Pirai – (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)".In July 2011, D. Karthikeyan of The Hindu singled out the film's re-recording and ranked it alongside the music director's other films such as Mullum Malarum (1978), Uthiripookkal (1979), Nayakan (1987) and Thalapathi (1991). On the song, "Kanne Kalaimane", Balu Mahendra said that it "stirs you to this day". Hari Narayan of The Hindu said, "The lullaby "Kanne Kalaimane" sees the tranquillity reach a crescendo." Another critic from The Hindu, Shankar, called "Vaanengum Thanga" a "dream song". Dhananjayan, in his book The Best of Tamil Cinema called the music "outstanding", further saying that the songs contributed significantly to the success of the film. The song "Ponmeni Uruguthey" that was picturised on Kamal Haasan and Silk Smitha developed cult status. The soundtrack received positive critical reception. The songs "Kanne Kalaimane" and "Ponmeni Uruguthey" were re-used in same tunes by Ilaiyaraaja in its Hindi remake Sadma (1983), while "Poongatru Puthithanathu", which was replaced by "Ae Zindagi Gale Laga Le", an original composition for the remake. In all the three soundtrack editions, "Kanne Kalaimane" is the first track, while the track numbering for the other songs vary. "Poongaatru Puthithaanathu" is incorrectly listed on the original soundtrack edition as "Poonkatru Thalattudhu", but this mistake was corrected in the iTunes re-release, while at, it is simply listed as "Poongatru". The original soundtrack edition of Moondram Pirai does not include the song "Ponmeni Uruguthey", but re-releases of the soundtrack on iTunes and do so, as the fourth and third tracks respectively. "Poongatru" was based on the Sindhu Bhairavi raga. unakke uyiraanen ennaalum enai nee maravaathey." were meant for her. According to Kannadasan's daughter Kalaiselvi, the song was written with his wife in mind the lines "Kaathal kondaen kanavinai valarthen. It was the last song which Kannadasan wrote before his death in October 1981. For the charanam, he gave us so many options and asked us to pick and choose whatever we liked and left". Thyagarajan said that, during the recording, Kannadasan called his assistant and told him to write down the lines, "which flowed from him like water from a stream" and he "gave us four options for the pallavi and we all loved Kanne Kalaimaane the best and froze it.
Kannadasan, who was unwell at that time, was present at the recording session of the song, which took place in September 1981. īoth Mahendra and Thyagarajan felt Kannadasan would be the right person to write "Kanne Kalaimaane". The number "Kannae Kalaimane", which is based on the Kapi raga, was written by Kannadasan in about two or ten minutes' time, after listening to the film's story and the situation for the song. The soundtrack was released through the record label Agi Music.