Music composer M. Jayachandran has scored again with his songs for Vyshakh’s Cousins , an extravaganza that is releasing on Friday. Every song in the film speaks for Jayachandran’s versatility as each song evokes a different mood. However, what has caught attention is the lavishly filmed ‘Kolussu Thenni Thenni’, sung by Shreya Ghosal, Tipu and Yasin Nizar.
“Vyshakh wanted a song for a sequence in a palace. He wanted it on a grand scale and so I came up with a number that captured the grandeur of the place. Seldom have I seen a song that has been so sumptuously shot. Perhaps this is one my best songs that has been visualised so beautifully,” says Jayachandran.
Eight days were spent on filming the song in Bangalore Palace. In addition to 600 people, including the lead actors, horses and elephants also feature in the song. “We were shooting in a palace and so I thought I might as well enhance the effect with props that we usually associate with palaces,” laughs Vyshakh, the director of Cousins .
Recorded in Kochi, Chennai and Mumbai, the ‘Kolussu Thenni Thenni’ number raked up hits and likes right from the day it was uploaded. It is the same with ‘Neeyen Vennila’, a soft number sung by Shreya and Haricharan that features Kunchacko and Vedhika. “That is a duet that has been charmingly picturised by Vyshakh,” says the music director. In fact, Vedhika’s tweet on the song ( Just released ...Love duet from my Malayalam film Cousins) has got her fans gushing about the tender number.
Jayachandran has also scored a foot-tapping number that has Kamalini Mukherjee shaking a leg to it. Looks like Jayachandran’s baton has cast a spell on viewers even before the movie releases. His last film with Vyshakh was the Unni Mukundan-starrer Mallu Singh , which also had a range of songs, all of which can still be heard at various ganamelas and is going strong on radio as well.
