How to become a Music director in Tamil Cinema

Role of Music directors in Tamil Cinema:

How to become a Music Director in Tamil Cinema

Tamil Cinema is one of the biggest entertaining industries in India nowadays. Tamil Cinema has deep root in the name of history for more than 100 years of time. This Tamil Cinema has seen a lot of faces who have become the most favorite celebrities of all time, even some celebrities from Tamil Cinema have become Political leaders of the Tamilnadu State. In this Tamil Cinema, even though the actors and actresses are the front end representatives, the caption of the ship is the director is a common sentence has been uttered by various people on various stages. Now here we are going to have a look about Music directors, their roles and their importance. ( Courtesy to Hindu Talkies ).

A R Rahman

As our Kollywudz blog which is specified for Tamil Cinema / Kollywoods cinema I have taken the topic of Isai Puyal A. R. Rahman who is a dedicated Music Director of Tamil cinema and won Oscar Awards which is the life dream of each and every artists around the world.

Before going to the comprehensive, detailed Profile, biography, filmography (List of Movies for which A R Rahuman did music composing) and personnel information about the Music Director A R Rahman, let me give you a brief explanation about the life story of A R Rahman. Rahman born as Dileep Kumar at Chennai, Tamilnadu. The father of A R Rahman was a musician and our Isai Puyal was doing the musical works such as operating the musical instruments like, Keyboard and other instruments which are quite tough to operate in the early ages. A R Rahman was facing many challenges in his life before getting his very first chance to compose music in his debut Tamil movie Roja. But after getting the film Roja, A R Rahman reached many heights in his Music career.

Anirudh Ravichander

Profile and Biography of  Music director Anirudh Ravichander:

The world knows the song, Why this Kolaveri sung with the voice of Tamil actor, Dhanush. But the creator of this song, that is, the song was composed by music director Anirudh Ravichander. I have taken that young music director to talk about in this article.

Profile of Music Director Anirudh Ravichander:

Age : 33

Our Anirudh is a Chennai boy, and his birth place is Chennai, Tamilnadu.

Anirudh is famous for his music play with the instruments, Guitar, Piano, Keyboard, Drum and Bassist.

Father name of Music director Anirudh is, Ravi Raghavendra

Mother name of Tamil musician Anirudh is, Lakshmi who is a dancer.

The relation of Anirudh Ravichander with the Tamil cinema industry is that he is the nephew of the wife of Super star Rajnikanth namely Latha Rajnikanth.

The very first movie of Anirudh has got the globally famous song Why this Kolaveri that got billions of youtube video visits and getting the great height of expectation among the people about the release date of this movie moonu.

Anirudh was a part of the band shool namely Zinx and later on he was in Circuit which is a rock band. Anirudh’s London education was with the education in the college, Trinity College of Music, London. Not only in western music but Anirudh has also learnt Carnatic music.

The very first, debut movie of Anirudh 3 (Moonu) released in the year 2012. The education of Aniruth Ravichandar was in the Loyola College which has produced many Tamil actors. Anirudh’s schooling was in PSBB. The very first opportunity for Anirudh was in a reality show with the Oscar winning  Music Director A R Rahman. Words of Anirudh are, “I have composed music for Aishwarya Dhanush’s short films. We worked together for 12 short films. When she came up with her debut film, she wanted me to compose music for her film project as well. Aishwarya as a director is doing well. I am really excited about my debut film songs.”

Words of Anirudh in interviews are as follows, “Dhanush and Shruti Haasan have rendered a duet, which will be good to watch as they will be in the visuals as well. Mohit Chauhan of Rockstar fame has sung a song for the very first time in a South Indian film. Dhanush wrote the lyrics for six songs. The Kolaveri song happened in 10 minutes. It was effortless, we just casually worked on the song. The surprising part is that even Aishwarya has written a song in the film!”

“I follow an emotion-centric style of working. I compose emotions in my songs. I don’t sit and compose tunes. I believe certain songs just happen by themselves. As I have been born and brought up in Rahman's era, I have learnt music with his songs. I just want to compose simple, soulful numbers.”

 “I was a part of a school band called Zinx. I used to be the piano player in my band. The band inspired me to take up my musical journey. Now my dear friends are working with me as my music team. So it is amazing fun at work.”

* I would love to compose for Ajith
* No ex-girlfriend tried to re-unite with me after my success
* I zone out often and get into form to compose
* My mom Lakshmi, a dancer, is a rock star
* I want to work with Black Eyed Peas
* My ideal date would be Sushmita Sen