Raga Chintamani: A Guide to Carnatic Ragas Through Tamil Film Music

Raga Chintamani is a guide to Carnatic ragas through Tamil film music. It is a compilation of nearly 1800 Tamil cine songs, based on classical ragas. In this book, a brief introduction of around 160 ragas is given and the cine songs based on each raga are listed. "Songs vs Ragas" are also listed in an alphabetical order, to enable the reader to easily locate the raga for a particular song. Interesting quizzes of more than hundred numbers will, no doubt, enthuse the readers as well as enhance their musical knowledge.