Subash ghai's Yuvvraaj - Audio released

Subash Ghai's new musical venture, Yuvvraaj's Audio has been released. It is already a hit among the millions of A R Rahman fans.

It is a nice collection of 9 songs which smells fresh music, and differentiates itself from the flooding Punjabi, rock style music rocking the Bollywood recently.

Subash Ghai's words from the CD Cover:

"I've always found it a challenging task to transform a dramatic script into a spellbinding musical, though I've done this before with films like Karz, Meri Jung, Khalnayak and Taal. When I came across an interesting story of three brothers driven by sibling rivalry and a lady cellist who plays the catalyst in bringing, I immediately called up AR Rahman...

Now that most of the popular Hindi film songs are only about disco and Punjabi folk music, does it make sense to make a musical like Yuvvraaj? I asked Rahman.

Rahman snapped back. "Why not? If you get out of your comfort zone... go for experiments and innovations... new music will happen!"

And it has happened!

Two maestros Rahman and Gulzar saab, have spent endless days and nights with me to create this album, an entertaining musical which blends the discord of the three brothers with the heavenly sound of family togetherness. The story takes place in two of the most beautiful European countries - Prague and Austria - that resound with nothing but music.

Imagine a film where:
Salman is a dreamy singer...
Katrina is a leading musician...
Zayed grooves to a chaotic disco sound...
Anil Kapoor enjoys only classical music...

Imagind the symphony of sounds created by all these characters. Now imagine my struggle to match my visuals to Rahman's mesmerizing sound and Gulzar saab's magical lyrics...

This is - Yuvvraaj.
Hope you enjoy it.

Subhash Ghai"

Mani is in merry

India's best known director Mani Ratnam and his Madras Talkies has signed a record Rs 120 crore deal with the Anil Ambani run Reliance Entertainment Big Picture, for his new untitled film in three languages- Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

Mani sir as he is affectionately known in Kollywood has been quietly working on the script of this film, since the release of his super hit *Guru* in January 2007.

The Hindi version will feature Abhishek Bachchan- Aishwarya Rai and Govinda in a negative role. The Tamil and Telugu version will have Vikram doing Abhishek's role while Aishwarya Rai will be the common heroine for all the three versions. It is going to be a tight rope walk for her as she has to juggle her dates with Shankar's Rajinikanth extravaganza 'Robot', during the same period.

And the role being done by Govinda would be essayed by Pritviraj, who actually started his career in Tamil in a villain's role in *Kana Kandein*. There are rumours that Karthik who last worked with Mani in *Agninakshthram*, will also be roped in to play an important role. Priya Mani too will be playing a role in the film which will start rolling in Karaikudi from
September 10, and will also be shot in the forests of Madhya Pradesh.

Mani's all time favourite and his 'discovery' A.R Rahman will be composing songs for this film which has now become one of the hottest projects in the country. Ace cameraman Manikandan who is now shooting for Priyadarsan's *Biloo Barber* in Pollachi will be the cameraman.

Mani sir as usual was unavailable for comment and Reliance Entertainment Big Picture spokesman in Chennai too refused to talk about the deal.
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