Ilaiyaraaja to score music for Vetrimaaran’s next

Vetrimaaran’s new film with Soori as the lead is all set to go on floors this week. Along with Soori, veteran filmmaker Bharathiraja will also be seen in an important role. The director himself is producing the film under his banner Grass Root Film Company. Interestingly, he has got the legendary Ilaiyaraaja to compose music for this film.

Out of the five films he has directed so far, Vetrimaaran has collaborated with music director GV Prakash four times. ‘Vada Chennai’ had music composed by Santhosh Narayanan. It will be exciting to see how his rapport with Ilaiyaraaja works.

Vetrimaaran’s film with Soori was announced over a year back. The project was supposed to kick-start in the first half of 2020, but got delayed due to the pandemic. Initially, they had planned to make a film based on late lyricist Na Muthukumar’s poem ‘Pattampoochi Virpavan’. However, things didn’t work out and Vetrimaaran instead decided to adapt Meeran Moideen’s ‘Ajnabi’ into a feature film. Since its storyline is set in Dubai and due to the current travel restrictions, the makers had to drop that idea as well.

Finally, Vetrimaaran has confirmed that his new film with Soori will be based on the short story ‘Thunaivan’ written by Jeyamohan. The story was first published in the magazine, Ananda Vikatan in 1992. Shoot is scheduled to start on December 8 in Sathyamangalam.