Virasat

Awards

Song Awards:
• 1997 - National Film Awards - Best Female Playback Singer - Paayalen Chhunmun Chhunmun (Female) - K.S. Chitra
• 1997 - Screen Awards - Best Female Playback Singer - Paayalen Chhunmun Chhunmun (Female) - K.S. Chitra

Trivia

Album

• This film was a remake of the Tamil film "Thevar Magan" (1992), starring Sivaji Ganesan and Kamal Haasan. The film was also remade in Kannada as "Thandege Thakka Maga" (2006).

Song

• Paayalen Chhunmun Chhunmun (Duet) - Anu Malik developed the tune of this song's first interlude into a whole new song, "Hua Salaam Dil Ka" ("Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein", 2002).[1]
• Taare Hain Barati - The tune of this song seems to be inspired by an orchestral music piece, "El Condor Pasa", composed by the Peruvian musician Daniel Alomia Robles and based on Peruvian folk music. The American duo Simon & Garfunkel had adapted this tune for the song "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)". Anu Malik had used this tune earlier in the songs "Zindagi Ne Pukara Chale Aaye Hum" ("Khatarnaak", 1990) and "Teri Chahat Ke Siva" ("Jaanam", 1993). This tune may have also inspired the theme music of the film "Dharmatma" (1975).[2][3][4][5]
• Jayengi Pee Ke Nagar - This was the debut Hindi film song of the South Indian singer Anuradha Sriram. She had previously sung songs for South Indian films dubbed in Hindi.
• Ek Tha Raja - This song was plagiarised from the Tamil film song "Potri Paadadi Penne" ("Thevar Magan", 1992) composed by Ilaiyaraaja.[6]
• Paayalen Chhunmun Chhunmun (Female) - While this song won Chitra the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 1997, the original Tamil version of this Ilaiyaraja song, "Inji Iduppazhaga" ("Thevar Magan", 1992), also got S. Janaki the same award in 1993.
• Paayalen Chhunmun Chhunmun (Female) - This song was adapted from the Tamil film song "Inji Iduppazhaga" ("Thevar Magan", 1992) composed by Ilaiyaraaja. In the music session for the original Tamil song, Kamal Haasan had told composer Ilaiyaraaja that he wanted a song like "Yeh Dil Deewana Hai" ("Ishq Par Zor Nahin", 1970). It was using this S.D. Burman song as a reference that Ilaiyaraaja composed the Tamil film song.[7][8][9]

1. ^ Hua Salaam Dil Ka (Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein, 2002)
2. ^ El Condor Pasa - Leo Rojas
3. ^ Zindagi Ne Pukara Chale Aaye Hum (Khatarnaak, 1990)
4. ^ Teri Chahat Ke Siva (Jaanam, 1993)
5. ^ Theme Music (Happy) (Dharmatma, 1975)
6. ^ Potri Paadadi Penne (Thevar Magan, 1992)
7. ^ Inji Iduppazhaga (Thevar Magan, 1992)
8. ^ Yeh Dil Deewana Hai (Ishq Par Zor Nahin, 1970)
9. ^ And more on the Ilaiyaraaja connection