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The audio and CD of S. J. Suryah's film "Anbe Aruyire" were released recently
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The mood was upbeat at Albert theatre where the audiocassette release function of S. J. Suryah's film "Anbe Aruyire" was under way. Incidentally, the audiocassette release functions of all his films have been organised at this venue.
The function got off to a start with the lighting of the traditional lamp by Soundarya Rajnikanth. She has done the graphics for the film.
Poet Vaali, who spoke first, recalled the days when he was fortunate to write all the songs for a film featuring Sivaji Ganesan, which also had the same title. "Now I happy to write for S. J. Suryah. I have penned lyrics that have gone down well with people of all ages and I'll continue to do so. The two songs shown here have been beautifully picturised and director-actor Suryah deserves a pat for it."
Actor Vijay, who received the first copy of the film's audiocassette from A. R. Rahman, was all praise for Suryah. "After seeing the power-packed performance of Suryah in the songs, I'm a little scared that he might ask producer Appachan to pull me out of my new film "Puli" which he is going to direct. I had better ask the producer to start the shooting as early as possible," said Vijay to the amusement of the audience.
S. J. Suryah said for the first time in the Tamil film industry people were asked to suggest titles for a film and the best came from P. R. Kamalakkannan. He received the prize money of Rs. 1 lakh from A. R. Rahman's mother.
Silambarasan, who received the first copy of the CD from A. R. Rahman, said he too was going to act in a film directed by Suryah. He said, "Suryah's strength is his self-confidence. He doesn't mind disclosing the story before the release of the film."
Vivek was at his humorous best. Other VIPs who participated in the function were Kandaswamy Bharathan, S. A. Chandrasekaran, Shanker, T. Vijaya Rajender, and producer S. S. Chakravarthy.
The film stars new-find Nila and S. J. Suryah, who, besides playing the lead, has taken care of the story, screenplay, dialogue and direction. The music is scored by A. R. Rahman and the songs are written by Vaalee.
The title song, rendered by A. R. Rahman, is good. Here, his voice is low pitched and the percussion predominates.
`Mayiliragae Mayiliragae', sung by Madhusri and Naresh Iyer, is good in parts; one wonders why the new breed of singers can't get their Tamil pronunciation right.
`Varugirai' by Hariharan and Chitra and `Thigu Thigu' by Sadhana Sargam score in this album. That Hariharan has taken a lot of pains to sing it differently is evident in `Varugirai'. Hariharan, who was present at the function said, "It is one of the best compositions of A. R. Rahman and he has made optimum use of my voice."
S. P. Balasubramaniam who sang `Thazhuvudu' fails to take the listeners along with him. Shreya Ghoshal accompanies him.
`Marankothiye' by Shanker Mahadevan, Shalini, Vasundharadass and Bilaze reminds us of the song `Kadalikkum' in the recent film "Chellame".
Though some of the songs don't make an instant impact, they're typical of Rahman's music. They grow on you with repeated listening.
S.R. ASHOK KUMAR
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