Ilaiyaraaja and SPB's friendship hit a sour patch after the legal notice. In 2017, SP Balasubrahmanyam, his son SPB Charan and KS Chithra were served with legal notices when they were on a tour in the US. In his statement, Bharathiraja said that Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, AR Rahman, Ilaiyaraaja, Vairamuthu, and millions of fans of SPB will play the singers song at 6 pm. These songs will be unveiled in the coming months. Thank you,” he said while responding to a comment on his latest post. SPB also sang two new songs for Ilaiyaraaja's upcoming films. I do not want my good friend Shri Raja inconvenienced.I do not want my sponsors and concert organizers to get hurt sentimentally and financially. “My intention of this information is to prepare the audience. He also noted his only intention of revealing his legal trouble with Ilaiyaraaja was to inform the audience beforehand so that they are not disappointed at his show. I am always grateful for your love and affection,(sic)” he said. Though SPB was already singing for many Telugu and Tamil films before the arrival of Ilayaraja (for music directors like KV Mahadevan, MS Viswanathan and V Kumar), it was the ‘Ilayaraja effect’ in films like Payanangal Mudivathillai, Pagalil Or Iravu, Poonthalir, Nenjathai Killadhae, Roasapoo Ravikkaikaari that catapulted SPB to fame. Hope you all will bless our concerts as usual. By God’s grace I have sung lots of other composer’s songs too which we will present. “In these circumstances, our troupe can not perform Isaijnani’s compositions from today. He also said that due to the legal notice he won’t be able to perform the evergreen songs that he sang under Ilaiyaraaja’s composition in his upcoming concerts. As I said earlier, I am ignorant of the law. I dont know why now when we started our US tour. SPB is currently in the US as part of his SPB50 tour and hence wrote, “I did not get any feelers from Shri.