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The popular musician, who scored music for 6,000 songs in over 1,000 movies in almost every Indian language, mostly in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, was offered the place inside the famous studios by its founder L V Prasad in the late 1970s.įew months back, Sai Prasad, grand son of L V Prasad who now runs the studios, asked Ilayaraja to vacate the premises. Numerous attempts by Ilayaraja’s side to arrive at a compromise with Prasad Studios has failed since the management even rejected the music composer’s offer to pay rent for the premises or take it on lease, sources said. Ilayaraja has contended that he has scored music for over 6,000 songs from his studio inside the Prasad Studios complex and wanted the court to intervene in the decision by the management asking him to vacate the premises. Ilayaraja and Prasad Studios have been locked in a ugly dispute for over two months- the management has asked the music legend to vacate the premises and hand over the studio, which has been his workplace since 1976. While referring the dispute to the mediation centre, the judge directed that the court be apprised of the compromise arrived at between the two parties by next week. The petition filed by Ilayaraja seeking fast disposal of the case regarding the dispute between him and Prasad Studios by a lower court was heard by Justice V Bharathidasan on Tuesday. Madras High Court on Tuesday referred to its mediation centre the dispute between legendary music director Ilayaraja and Prasad Studios here over vacating an office allotted to him inside the sprawling studio complex.