not do much at the box office. Following
that he went through a bad phase where he
says, many people took advantage and cheated
him. Speaking at the function, he said that
the tough times had taught him the true
colors of a few people and that the lessons
he had learnt had transformed him. He claimed
that we would all see a new Saran in Modhi
Vilayadu and that his career will be remembered
in two phases, pre-Modhi Vilayaadu and post-Modhi
Vilayadu.
Vairamuthu was also present at the function
and spoke in an uncharacteristic manner,
ruffling a few feathers. First he hailed
the debut of singer Hariharan and Leslie
Lewis (the colonial cousins) as composers.
He then went on to describe in a metaphoric
way how it was to work with different people.
He said that some people literally squeezed
his work out of him like sugarcane juice
extractors while there were others who came
like honeybees and took what they needed
without causing much hurt. He recalled that
for the film Ratchagan (Nagarjuna, Sushmitha
Sen), he had written the ‘Armstrong’
song and that Rahman was not at all happy
with the ‘Armstrong’ word as
he thought it to be too hard which he felt
would spoil the melody of his tune. Even
after trying a lot, he was not convinced
and wanted the word changed. It was then
that Hariharan (who went on to sing the
song) intervened and said that the word
was indeed quite good. Vairamuthu pointed
out that this upset Rahman quite a bit.
He thinks that it was Hariharan’s
timely intervention that saved his work
from being fiddled with. He finished off
by saying that in Hariharan and Leslie he
was able to see elements of the great Vishwanathan-Ramamurthy
combination and wished them all the best.
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