Kadal (soundtrack)

Kadal
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Soundtrack album to Kadal by A. R. Rahman
Released	December 15, 2012 (2012-12-15)
Recorded	2011–2012 Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios, Chennai Nirvana Studios, Mumbai Panchathan Hollywood Studios, Los Angeles
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	34:23
Language	Tamil
Label	Sony Music
Producer	A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman chronology
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) Kadal (2012) Maryan (2013)

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Kadal (English: Sea) is the soundtrack album, composed by A. R. Rahman for the 2013 Tamil film of the same name, directed by Mani Ratnam that stars Gautham Karthik and Thulasi Nair in the lead roles. Noted poet-lyricist Vairamuthu and his son Madhan Karky penned lyrics for three songs each. Sri Lankan rapper Aaryan Dinesh Kanagaratnam made his debut for Indian cinema with one of the songs. The album was released under Sony Music on December 15, 2012.

Director Mani Ratnam's usual associate music composer, A. R. Rahman was signed to compose the songs as well as the background score for the film. Rahman visited Mani Ratnam at one of the filming locations near coastal areas of Thiruchendur where they had a boat ride into the sea to discuss about the songs. In an interview, Rahman stated that the music of Kadal is a blend of Christian gospel, Blues and Carnatic music as the film plot portrays Christian fishermen.Rahman claimed the sea to be a huge inspiration and hence the song "Chithirai Nila" was born out of this inspiration. As Mani Ratnam insisted on romantic numbers, Rahman composed "Nenjukulley" and "Moongil Thottam" in the same tempo.The songs were alternate choices for Ratnam but he retained both.On composition of song "Adiye", according to the composer, most Christian gospel songs have a blues feel to them. However, he clubbed the folk genre with jazz vocal backing into it as picturisation was to be done on a village boy. Initially, Ratnam wanted the composer to croon the track but the latter had already finalised "Elay Keechan" and hence "Adiye" was sung by Sid Sriram. The operatic Italian version of song "Anbin Vaasale", sung by Natalie Di Luccio was used in the background score of the film. A gibberish song sung by A.R. Rahman, used only in the film was featured on the character Celina (played by Lakshmi Manchu).