Manam | ||||
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Disc Cover of the Soundtrack Album
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Soundtrack album To Manam by Anup Rubens | ||||
Released | May 9, 2014 | |||
Recorded | 2013 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Length | 24:05 | |||
Language | Telugu | |||
Label | Aditya Music | |||
Producer | Anup Rubens | |||
Anup Rubens chronology | ||||
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Manam is the feature film soundtrack album composed by Anup Rubens for the 2014 Telugu Period drama film of the same name directed by Vikram Kumar which featured Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Nagarjuna and Naga Chaitanya along with Shriya Saran and Samantha in the lead roles. The film, which marks Akkineni Nageswara Rao's last on screen appearance is also Anup Rubens' 25th film as a Music Director.
Vanamali, Chandrabose and Anup Rubens himself provided lyrics for the 5 out of 6 songs in the album and the remaining one being the Theme Music of the film. The soundtrack album released on May 9, 2014 on Aditya Music label. Upon release, the soundtrack album received huge applause from critics and audience with many critics opining it as the best work of Anoop Rubens till date. It was also hailed as the best soundtrack in Telugu for the year 2014. On a whole, Anoop Rubens received extremely positive reviews and responses for his work.
In mid March 2013, Anup Rubens was recruited to compose music for the film marking his second collaboration with Vikram Kumar after Ishq and Naga Chaitanya after Autonagar Surya and this film also marked his biggest project till date by then. In a press note released in the end of November 2013 which spoke about the film's shoot in Coorg mentioned that Chandrabose and Vanamali would provide the lyrics for the songs of the film. The film also marks Anoop Rubens 25th film as a Music composer. In mid February 2014, it was reported that the hit song Oka Laila Kosam would be remixed in the film but an official statement was awaited for that. However, verses of the song Nenu Putanu were used in the song Piyo Piyo Re.
The official Track list was released on May 8, 2014 by Nagarjuna himself on Twitter. The Track list featured 5 songs and a theme music with Vanamali, Chandrabose and Anup Rubens penning the lyrics and popular singers Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Chaitra H. G., Haricharan and Jaspreet Jasz providing the vocals along with new singers.