Harris enjoys doing what Rahman is not keen on

Aadhavan is one of the frontrunners in the Deepavali race, and movie buffs are raring to see how the Suriya-KS Ravi Kumar combo would work out. Suriya has done some daredevil stunts in the film, which will be a treat for his fans to watch. However, the director is apprehensive that he could injure himself in the process and advised him to remain cautious in future.

The songs and music, on the other hand, have come out very well and have been topping the charts. Speaking about his experience with Harris Jayaraj to a national daily, director KS Ravi Kumar revealed that Harris just loves to compose duets, something that AR Rahman is not so keen on.


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Gautham wants to work with Rahman and Harris

Time and again one question that director Gautham Menon faces is if there are any chances of working together with music director Harris Jayaraj again. And this time too, the director has maintained that the decision not to work together was not his but Harris’.
Gautham adds that his dream to work with AR Rahman came true in Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya and this paved way for signing him up for his other projects as well. However, the director maintains that he prefers to work with Harris as well as Rahman in future.
Wonder what Harris has to say about this!


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Gautham Menon patches with Harris Jeyaraj?

Director Gautham Menon’s Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaya is creating a huge expectation among the fans. With Silambarasan and Trisha starring in the film, the expectation just soared higher.

AR Rahman has scored the music for VTV and all the songs are said to have come out well. The director also has plans to sign up Rahman for his next venture. Does that mean he would never consider working with his close pal Harris Jeyaraj again? In a recent interview to a magazine, Gautham said that the decision was made by Harris. Could it mean that this successful duo will patch up at some stage?


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AR Rahman tunes for Mahesh's movie

AR Rahman scored his first for Mahesh in the movie 'Nani'.  Mahesh Babu and Ameesha Patel played the lead cast. The movie was directed by SJ Surya.

Being SJ Suryah's favorite songster, Rahman is once again composing music for Pawan Kalyan's 'Puli' directed by Suryah. Once it is done, the music director is going to carry on orchestrating for Tollywood with Mahesh Babu's next to be directed by Gautham Menon.

The team usually comprised of Harris Jayaraj and Gautham Menon since a long time, but due to an estranged relationship between them, the duo has split-up. After parting ways with 'Surya s/o Krishna' being their last, Harris moved out and Rahman stepped into the project.

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Clash of the Titans

The audio release for the movies 'Sakkarakatti', 'Sathyam' and 'Saroja' are expected to happen at about the same time and music lovers are in for a treat with accomplished composers A. R. Rahman, Harris Jayaraj and Yuvan Shankar Raja fighting for 'hearing rights' amongst film music lovers very shortly.

All three movies are expected to do very well. 'Sakarakatti' has Baghyaraj's son Santhanu in the lead and numerous Computer Generated Imagery based sequences have been made for the song sequences.

The songs are expected to have the grandeur element and the right person has been roped in for the effect – A. R. Rahman.

'Sathyam' has Vishal and Nayantara starring in it and the story is about a cop and a daring television journalist.

It also features a number of children in it. Harris Jeyaraj has weaved his magic for this film that is expected to be a thriller.

'Saroja' has the same 'Chennai 600028' team and loads of fun and frolic is bound to be part of the plot. Kajal Agarwal joins the team as the heroine.

Yuvan Shankar Raja would ideally like to assert his presence with this film big time, especially with competition coming in the form of many young music directors like G. V. Prakash.

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Gautham denies rift with Harris

Director Gautham Menon always shared good rapport with Harris Jayaraj. The two had been part of several successful ventures including ‘Minnale’, ‘Khaakha Khaakha’, ‘Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu’ and ‘Pachai Kili Muthucharam’.

However with Gautham opting to work with A R Rahman for ‘Chennaiyil Oru Mazhai Kaalam’ surprised many.

Questions started to do rounds whether the two are at loggerheads. However Gautham is quick to deny them as rumors.

“I am an admirer of Harris Jayaraj even now. I wanted to work with Rahman and expressed my desire to him. He readily agreed and we commenced ‘Chennaiyil Oru Mazhai Kaalam’. That's all.'

The movie features Trisha in the lead role and five newcomers are playing part of it.

The film's story revolves around 3 girls and 4 boys. Trisha portrays a new generation software engineer. Naethra and Nikitha play the other two girls. Karthik who is actress Maheswari's brother plays the male lead opposite Trisha and Daniel Balaji is in a role of a psycho.

The first shooting schedule of 25 days has already got finished in Chennai. The second schedule's work has started and is going on.

The ace director also spoke about the response till now for his new project and also explained about the title of the film.

'The people have a lot of expectations on 'Chennaiyil Oru Mazhai Kaalam'. Just like the rainy season, love is also a beautiful experience'. 'Mazhai Kaalam' in the title represents the love shown in the film’.

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Rahman’s pick

TWENTY-five-year-old Naresh was just another free-spirited youngster who enjoyed music, did a bit of singing for himself and longed for a career in chartered accountancy.

Although he had won a few inter- collegiate music competitions, Naresh believed it was nothing more than good luck.

But when the winning became consistent he wondered whether he actually had a flair for music.

In 2005, Naresh found himself amongst the last 25 contestants of Channel V’s music talent hunt show V Supersinger.

The show turned out a dream run for the young man who met musicians of the likes of A R Rahman and Adnan on the sets. But the honeymoon was not to last long and Naresh was soon out of the show.

Not empty-handed, though, he had a singing offer from Rahman, which again he thought was too good to be true. But in a few months Roobaroo happened and life changed forever for Naresh Iyer.

Three years later, Naresh is a national award-winning playback singer. This website’s newspaper caught up with the velvet-voiced pick of Rahman who rendered many of his recent cult hits, including Roobaroo, Patshala and Munbe Va.

“I never thought that Rahman sir was serious when he made the offer that day. I thought he was only trying to console me as I was out of the show. But within four days, his engineer called me and I was flabbergasted,” says the 27-year-old singer with his trade-mark smile intact on his boyish face.

Ever since that classy Rang De Basanti number hit the charts there has been no looking back for this youngster from Mumbai. The song won him the National Award for best play back singer for 2006.

Today, Naresh juggles his time between stage shows and recordings. Something he never dreamt of three years ago.

“I was just a guy who dreamt of becoming a CA and was happy with my studies. Although I was training in music under Susheela Mani and Chintamani Gore, I was not really serious about a career in music,” Naresh swears.

Interestingly, it was his parents who coerced this studious boy into music. Naresh’s mother actually wanted him to participate in Indian Idol.

“I was kind of bored with reality shows and wanted to pursue studies rather than music. But when V Supersinger happened, my family almost pushed me out of the house to participate in it,” he says.

Little did he know then that he was about to be hand-picked by Rahman for an enviable musical career.

Rahman not only gave Naresh his first playback song (Mayilerege for Anbe Aaruyire) and his first Bollywood break (Roobaroo) but also made him part of his team for world tours.

Naresh has by now shared many stages with the legendary composer. “It is tough when you are sharing the stage with artists’ of this stature because the expectations are always very high. Being part of that team itself is a challenge,” says Naresh.

However, unlike stage shows recording with AR is an entirely different experience, he says.

“He is a treasure house of knowledge, and you always come out having learnt something after each session. He always keeps his sessions relaxed and when you are done with a song you feel like starting it all over again.”

Naresh has also worked with other leading Tamil composers, including Harris Jayaraj and Deva. He is now looking forward to singing for Ilayaraja and Vidyasagar.

Naresh, who is a native of Palakkad, has only sung one Malayalam song for the film Heart Beats. He is now looking forward to his next Hindi project with Anu Malik, which is set to begin soon.

“I still feel like I am living a dream. I just don’t want it to end.” That's very unlikely, going by his run in tinsel town so far. Nevertheless, touch wood !

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