Ilaiyaraaja pays final respects to her daughter...

S Venkateshwari
Ilaiyaraaja pays final respects to her daughter...


Veteran music composer Ilaiyaraaja paid his last tribute to his daughter, National Award-winning singer Bhavatharini, in tamil Nadu, a few days after she passed away. He was observed conducting ceremonies in front of her flower-decked mortal bones. 


Final condolences for Bhavatharini

A video of Ilaiyaraaja paying his final respects to his daughter in her birthplace of Gudalur, Theni in tamil Nadu, and performing a rite in front of her mortal remains was uploaded on saturday by the news agency ANI's X handle. The former chief minister of tamil Nadu, O Panneerselvam, was among the friends and family members there to pay their final respects. "The loss of playback singer and music director Ilaiyaraaja's daughter Bhavatharini is significant for the tamil Nadu community as well as the music industry," he told ANI. Theni district also suffers a great damage from this. May peace be upon her soul."

The brother of Bhavatharini and son of Ilayaraja, Yuvan shankar Raja, was seen arriving at the madurai airport to attend his sister's burial earlier. Her lifeless remains were transported from sri lanka to Ilaiyaraaja's chennai residence on Friday.

Bhavatharini, a 47-year-old music director and playback vocalist, has away. thursday was her last breath in sri lanka, where she was receiving cancer treatment. Ilaiyaraaja shared a photo of himself and his late daughter on X a day after she passed away. It was an old black-and-white photo of him opening a picture book and showing something to his daughter. "Dear daughter," is how he captioned the post in Tamil.

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