RECORDED HISTORY: While maestro Ilayaraja was being felicitated at the International Film Festival of India in November in Goa, his close aides Bharathiraja, Bhagyaraj, Seeman, among other film personalities, were trying to sort out the row between the composer and Prasad Studios. For four decades, Raja had been working out of his ‘comfort zone’ in his office located inside the sprawling Prasad Studios. A plan by the current management of the Prasad Studios, headed by Sai Prasad, grandson of late L V Prasad, to renovate the campus, had drawn Ilayaraja’s ire, as he was asked to vacate and hand over the studio. Raja had filed a case against the studio owners, demanding to be allowed to stay on. (Photo | Pandarinath B, EPS)