Maestro Ilaiyaraaja‘s achievements, status and stature in the Tamil film industry are unparalleled. The moment a film is announced with Ilaiyaraaja‘s music, expectations start building up among his fans in particular about his music and in general about what the film might have to offer.
Ilaiyaraaja, who started his musical sojourn in the mid-seventies, has been going strong for more than 35 years now and finds himself in an unassailable position despite him taking a break from composing music for most part of the last decade.
That gap allowed his son Yuvan Shankar Raja, a highly talented individual, to cement his palce in the industry. Now, Ilaiyaraaja is back and is back with a bang. One of his major upcoming films would be Neethane En Ponvasantham directed by Gautham Menon. This is the first time Menon is working with Ilaiyaraaja in his decade-long career as film-maker in Kollywood.
The film’s audio rights are presently in the process of negotiation. Reports say that Sony Music has reportedly offered an unprecedented sum of 2 crore to bag the audio rights of the film which stars Jiiva and Samantha in lead roles in the Tamil version while Nani replaces Jeeva for the Telugu version. Gautham Menon might finally settle for 2.50 crore, it is further reported.
If the deal is struck, the cost the film’s audio-rights would easily overtake that of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya, Gautham Menon‘s earlier film which had music by A.R Rahman.
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Sony to bag Gautham-Ilayaraja’s ‘NEP’ audio rights!!!
Director Gautham Menon’s upcoming project “Neethane En Ponvasantham” starring Jeeva and Samantha is one of the most awaited movies of the year. NEP has music by Ilaiyaraja who is composing after a long time. Sony is stepping forward to bag the distribution rights of this NEP album now.
Sony Music is all set to acquire the audio rights of Neethane En Ponvasantham and Yeto Vellipoindi Manasu for a whooping cost of Rs.2crores, but nothing is finalized yet. Sources close to them say that, the deal might be concluded for 2.5crores atleast.
Samantha is playing the female lead in this Tamil/Telugu bilingual movie that will cast Jeeva as the lead in Tamil version, while Nani will essay the role of Varun Krishna, the Mechanical engineering student in Telugu.
Shooting of NEP is taking place in fast shape and the makers are now planning to sell the music rights to Sony Music, seeing its craze among the audiences.
Hi to the directors and producers of south indian tamil film industry we would like to raise issues on film produced these days. Please you got to improve our tradition and culture values especially to youngsters these days. They also got to follow our old legends footsteps as teaching good leadership to children too. They need to produce decent family pictures and show more of devotional films like murugan,ayappan.amman,etc films. Also we need good songs.Illayaraja’s son yuvan shankar raja can help the industry with others giving old and new together re-mix songs. From new songs to old songs as remix. This is how we can bring back our culture. Good films,devotional films. OLD IS ALWAYS GOLD.! So we need good co-operative singers like Jesudas,his son,Illayaraja,his son Yuvan and all team members to produce good remix songs from new to old and with songs to dance in with music in our heart. This will also teach people how to appreciate music with true love. So please from now on do your duty with some changes in this which will bring lots of benefits to others too.
THANKS.
Neethaane En Ponvasantham audio!!!
Tomorrow is maestro Ilayaraja’s birthday. On the eve of his birthday Gautham Vasudev Menon is releasing a special audio of Neethaane En Ponvasantham, as a tribute to the legendary music composer.
We join Menon in wishing Ilayaraja Sir a very happy birthday. We pary that the Almighty bless this genius with long life and good health for him to continue to delight us all.