One song at a time - 6. Rajeshwar Rao's Bilahari
(S. Rajeshwar Rao) Just like Begada which we spoke about a couple of posts back, Bilahari is another ragam which is not so easy to adapt to film music. It generally ends up showing its classical colours. Illayaraja had tuned a wonderful song in Bilahari, "koondalile megam" for the film, 'Balanagamma'. He also tuned "neethone aagena sangeetham" for 'Rudraveeena' in Bilahari. In both cases you can clearly see the classical aspect of Bilahari present in the song. I am sure there are quite a few Bilahari based songs if you dig deeper in time but I can also bet that the classical aspect would dominate in those songs. Today, I am posting a song composed by S.Rajeshwar Rao, one of the great music directors of the Telugu Film industry. He has given enormous number of hits. Too numerous to enumerate here. From his songs you can see that he had a very good ...