Kamal Haasan Instagram – Reposted from @rkfioffl Originally we wanted to parody our peers .I was always troubled by the people dressed in white dancing in the background in most films and hence we said we will have many widows dancing for the first night sequence . The reasoning behind it being that the widowed grandmother was the only relative Thiruppu had. But it turned out that everyone was completely against it, though there were 2 people for it ; the one that conceived the idea,MR.Singeetham, and without a doubt the other one was me. Mr.Panchu was scared that it would create a negative response . Hence I decided to make the song like a Bhajan and since it was shot like we were in markazhi Masam it would fit in aptly. I met Mr.Raja and sang the tune and he immediately said fantastic this is a tradition 1000yrs old and we should do it.
We immediately got on to the making of the song and got a person who knew Malayalam and Tamil to write the lyrics. Everything for the recording was in progress and Mr.Raja was giving notes and it always happens during lunch time! With MR.Raja if u miss the smallest of his note you will miss the star falling .You have to watch him like a shooting star. Suddenly Mr.Raja came up to me and expressed that he felt the tune was old but I stuck to my original thought on the tune and quickly reacted that we knew it was old and Mr.Raja was quicker to get back and quipped “But we are new” and he had set up a fully modern version complete with drums etc. I told him he was being modern for the sake of it but he asked me to trust him and that it had turned out really well and I should not stress over it. With the tune in place he added that all they needed to complete this blockbuster of a song was the right singer, and he had made up his mind on that too! I very quickly reacted and called out the name of Mr.Yesudas to which he shook his head in denial and pointed approvingly at me.
#KHspeaks #InHone #KaHa #30yearsofMMKR | Posted on 04/Jul/2021 19:51:51