Life & Leisure -- Aparna Krishnakumar / Mumbai March 12, 2005 :: .business standard.com: "Somewhere in Chennai, film director Shankar, best known for his big budget movies (including the Aishwarya Rai starrer Jeans and Indian) has always depended on Rehman to compose music for his films. Today, however, he is working with new kid on the block Yuvan Shankar Raja for the score of his new film Aniyan. Raja and Vidyasagar are a part of the growing breed of new music directors who are re-tuning the Rs 200 crore Tamil music industry.
Though Vidya-sagar entered the industry in 1989, it is only in the last five years that he has gained a following. Ditto for Yuvan Shankar Raja who started composing for southern films in 1995 and is now considered a leading music director. Similarly, Harris Jayaraj has delivered 15 musical hits in the last five years. Filmmakers down south are no longer banking on Rehman to guarantee success.
Music companies had to wait for a longer time to sell a Rehman music film. A partner with a leading music company reveals, “Five years back Rehman commanded as high as Rs 1 crore for music rights, and with audio facing one of its worst periods ever, we could not afford him any more.” This allowed music directors like Jayaraj, Vidyasagar and Raja to prove their mettle.
While Jayaraj followed his first success with more like 12 B, Leysa Leysa, Kakka Kakka, Kovil and Saami, Vidyasagar notched up hits Dhool, Run, Anbe Sivan and the more recent Gillie. Similarly, Raja upped his hits with Nandhaa, Kaadal Kondaen, Manmadan and currently Raam. According to Raja, this period also saw the entry of new film directors like Dharini, Goutam and Selvarajan who were in their late 20s and wanted to work with newer teams.
But in no way is Rehman’s popularity diminishing. In the last year, he has composed music for Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Swades, Mani Ratnam’s Yuva and the Tamil film New.
Yuvan Shankar Raja
First break: 1995, when he was 15.
Musical influences: Father Illayaraja, John Williams, Michael Jackson, R D Burman, hip-hop, reggae.
Personal Favourites: 7G Rainbow Colony, Manmadan.
Vidyasagar
First break: 1989
Musical influences: Father, grandfather and all great maestros; world music.
Plays: Nine instruments including santoor, piano, vibraphone and guitar.
Harris Jeyraj
First break: Minnale
Musical influences: “I have learnt from all the 40 music directors for whom I have arranged music."
Personal favourites: Kakka Kakka, Minnale.
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
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I also read this. Yuvan, Harris and Vidyasagar have been around for some time and they can't be called as new kids on the block. some factual inaccuracies as well.....Harris Jeyaraj is scoring the music for Anniyan (not YSR). Selvaraghavan has been mentioned as Selvarajan. I would have been happy if they had profiled Joshua sridhar, vijay anthony, bharadwaj, srikanth deva, dheena, imman and devi sri prasad.
Anniyan music... yes! When I was reading, I felt somewhat confused by the mention of MD.
Being a biz zine, they shd have double checked the facts & talked abt MP3, piracy!?
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