Maestro magic

It's three decades since Panchu Arunachalam gave him `Annakkili.' The rest is history. Ilaiyaraja is now the composer for `Maaya Kannaadi' and that again comes from the house of Arunachalam. The grandeur of the audio launch invite in itself conveyed all these and more about the maestro and his magic with music. The cover of the invitation, with a young ebullient Ilaiyaraja as he was when he entered cinema and the sober visage of today, and pictures of the man in action over the years printed all over the back of the card, caught your attention. And if the impact making visual treat wasn't enough, you had the `Maaya Kannaadi' cover with a rare 3D effect.