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Ahead of its audio release, the team of director Manirathnam's upcoming bilingual Kaatru Veliyidai (Cheliyaa in Telugu) has released the official tracklist of the film. An AR Rahman musical, there are a total of six songs penned by Vairamuthu, Madhan Karky and Shellee. the audio rights of the compositions is held by music label Sony Music. Featuring Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari in the lead, Kaatru Veliyidai has been produced by Madras Talkies and will be presented by Sri Thenandal Films in Tamil.

 

Actor Karthi's 'Kaatru Veliyidai' is his first film as an actor with director Mani Ratnam under who he has worked as an Assistant director in 'Aaydha Ezhuthu'. Karthi and Aditi Rao play the lead roles in Romance film set in Kashmir. Today (March 20), the music album of the film composed by A.R.Rahman has been released amid in a star studded event.






Karthi plays a fighter pilot and in his speech he spoke in detail about the rarest of rare experiences of getting to portray a character and learning how the War pilots work to safeguard the nation.

"It took time for me understand the requirements of portraying a Fighter pilot character. It was very difficult for me to understand the way Mani Ratnam sir had conceived the character and wrote it based on his research.

So sir had sent me for a basic flying lesson. I sat next to a pilot on a flight and saw how a flight is operated to fly. We cannot get that feeling from anything else. The main training given to the pilots is to remain calm during panic situations. The most important quality of a pilot is to remain calm and composed in whatever bad situation he encounters while driving a flight. To know about fighter pilot, I spent a day with my friend who is a Wing Commando.

I genuinely felt that, In South India or in the way I was brought up, whether we have that much respect for the armed forces and whether we are aware about their level of dedication.

For a particular mission, flight will take of from different locations such asGwalior, Delhi, West Bengal and many other places. All those flights starting from different location will be expected to meet at a particular time, particular second at a particular quadrant. All the flights will meet at that place exactly at the decided point of time. From their they will go and perform that task for the mission. The machine is worth around Rs.200 crores and it will go on a speed of 800 miles. Just think about the level precision the pilots should possess? We know our IIT, IIM graduates are brilliant. Fighter pilots should be equally brilliant, calm and strong like IITians. Only then they can achieve the mission.

This is not a war film. It is a love story only but we wanted to bring the spirit of a fighter pilot and that was a big challenge for us. Mani sir has written the character with such a deep understanding and due to that I hope we have brought that well at least to an extent.

After working on this film, whenever I see them, I automatically stand up with a sense of respect. We cannot thank them enough for their amazing sacrifice. I think we can show of our token of gratitude in the form of respect by standing up whenever they come to meet us.

I feel very very honoured to be playing a fighter pilot in this film."

 

The audio of Kaatru Veliyidai was launched today, 20th March at Sathyam Cinemas, Chennai. Mani Ratnam who generally does not talk much and let his work speak had few nice words to share about AR Rahman.

“A journey of 25 years with AR Rahman! It is like I met him yesterday. He had the same smile, even back then. To him, every film is a separate journey. He goes on search for a new path for every single film of his. Every time he treats a film like his first film. Sometimes he does not give what you want. We ask him to compose a song for Bombay but when I go, he gives me a theme track. I used to say-What sir, I need a song for tomorrow’s shooting and you give a theme? But once you listen to the theme, you forget everything else. I have to thank both AR Rahman and Vairamuthu for putting up with me for the past 25 years; please bear with me for a few more years. In the presence of all, I am asking them when can we sit for the composing of our next film? An amazing journey from Roja to Kaatru Veliyidai.

Kaatru Veliyidai is a love story told at the backdrop of Indian Air Force. We used to meet many Army Jawans and Military Officers during the shooting and feel amazed to see so many people working tirelessly to protect us.”

 

Today, at the audio launch of Kaatru Veliyidai, a surprise element was unleashed by Madras Talkies to all the guests of the event. They screened the second trailer of the movie which is expected to hit YouTube anytime from now.

The trailer opened up with a wonderful frame of snowy regions in Ladakh, and then, with Rahman's BGM taking the peak, the trailer picked up speed with super-fast paced dialogues.

The character sketch of Karthi looked eccentric, and there was a scene in the trailer which is proof of it. Leela (Aditi Rao) wears the cap of the Air Force officer Varun (Karthi), and immediately he shouts at her "I said take it off." There were other dialogues as well like "engalukulla sanda vanthalum prachanai vanthalum, she is my girl" and "na unna thedi varuven, nee enga irunthalum thedi varuven".

The three top highlights from the trailer are AR Rahman's BGM, Ravi Varman's frames, and Sreekar's editing. All these together deliver a technically sound and interesting trailer.

 

Second Trailer Kidu
Songs 1 Enname Ishttamayullu

 

1st trailer nekaalum kidu

 

Songs 4ennam ishtaayi

 

Earlier today, the Tamil audio release of Mani Ratnam’s Cheliya happened in Chennai. The entire unit was present and spoke highly about working on this film. But the film’s female lead, Aditi Rao Hydari made a speech in Tamil which impressed many.





Aditi in a very emotional way thanked the master craftsman Mani Ratnam for giving her a chance to work with him and also showcasing her in a superb way. The Hyderabadi born actress also thanked Karthi for being a supporting co-star and helping her with all the dialogues.

Aditi’s look from the teasers has been appreciated hugely. This is her first film and she has pinned a lot of hopes on this film.