Music director Ilayaraja who is a very close friend of late Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi, is currently in Australia for a music programme that was booked 6 months ago. Since he couldn't make it to the funeral, he made sure that he sent his condolence message through a video.
He says: "Dear people of Tamil Nadu. This is a very sad day for us. The death of Dr. Karunanidhi is a sad thing indeed. I don't know how we are going to overcome this loss and get back to normalcy. "
"Among all the political leaders, Karunanidhi was the last political leader. In the field of cinema, he was someone who gave us brilliant dialogues in pure Tamil. We can even call him the last screenplay-dialogue writer of Tamil cinema. "
He further added: "Be it Politics, Art, Literature, Cinema, Tamizh, he stood tall in all the fields he stepped into. This is such an irreparable loss. Irreparable as in the truest meaning of the word. That is how heavy this loss is, for us. "
Ilayaraja is currently has more than 10 films in his kitty. Fondly called as 'Maestro', Ilayaraja has composed for more than 1000 films till date.