ஹாரிஸ் ஜெயராஜ்Birth nameHarris JayarajBorn( 1975-01-08) 8 January 1975 (age 44), IndiaOrigin, IndiaGenres,Occupation(s),Instruments,Years active2000–presentHarris Jayaraj (born 8 January 1975) is an from. He composes soundtracks predominantly for films, while also having composed for a few films in and two films in. He has won 6 and since 2001, has received 17 nominations. He has also won 6, 5, 3, 3 and Awards. He has been honoured with Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu and from, the.
Contents.Early life Harris Jayaraj was brought up in, he was born into a middle class Christian family. He studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, K. His father, S. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to music director and later became a noted musician and film composer.
At age six, Harris began his formal training in. His father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn from Mr.A.Abdul Sattar. Harris scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of,.He started his music career as a guitarist in 1987 at age twelve. He started playing and developed interest over. He then started programming with his and went on to work as a under more than twenty five music directors in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam, working in more than 600 projects till the year 2000. He worked under noted composers including,. While working as an additional programmer under Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including a commercial featuring actor.
In his early years, he admired music composers, and.Film career Harris debuted as a film composer with 's. The album was well received, particularly the song Vaseegara was exceptionally popular. He received the for his work in Minnale, breaking the 9 years continuous record of A. The following soundtrack albums and met with high acclaim and praise. He also composed for the remake of titled, also directed by Gautham Menon. Most of the tunes from the Tamil version were retained in the Hindi version too, and only two fresh tunes were composed.
He then worked in directed. The title track of Lesa Lesa was the first song in India to be released as a single prior to a film soundtrack album release (The first ever single to be released prior to an album was Anaida's 'hotline'). Harris made his debut in with. He received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil, and for, starring. This film directed by was a huge commercial success and the songs met with great critical acclaim.
In its Telugu remake two new songs apart from the Tamil version were added to suit the taste of Telugu audience. The song Uyirin Uyire reused as Cheliya Cheliya in Telugu and Khwabon Khwabon in Hindi had effective use of gibberish words which later became a signature element in Harris songs.Harris once again paired up with director on after 12B. The music was appreciated for its excellency and synergy with the atmosphere in and out of the movie. Director, noted leading director of Tamil cinema, paired up with Harris in his magnum opus.
It was the first time Shankar did not team up with A. Shankar later mentioned that working with Harris was an experience. The received several awards including and Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil.
The next film he scored was directed by, for which he received. Critics noted that the album had 'scintillating, party-hopping numbers', which resulted in a huge commercial success in audio sales; the track 'Sutum Vizhi' crossed 20 million downloads and turned out to be phenomenally successful. Harris crafted a necessary classiness into Gautham Menon's blockbuster crime thriller starring. Gautham revealed that he shares the entire script with Harris and provides input's from his side.' Harris and I, when we work together, we put in a lot of effort. I give him the entire script.
I give him inputs. When we sat down for Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, I told him to do away with the traditional - format in the Manjal veyyil song.' Harris once again ventured into Tollywood with a successful album. The music album of the film was released simultaneously in 10 chosen venues from five different countries. Gautham Menon who considers the music and background score of Harris as a major asset of his films, once again teamed up with Harris on a romantic-thriller. The soundtracks of Pachaikili Muthucharam are appraised as melancholic, lilting, mysterious, and alternatively catchy.
Harris' collaboration with continued with. The music album oozing with energy all through proved to be a cut above the rest.
His next Telugu venture had a good commercial reception, and the song Manasa fetched a Filmfare Best Singer Female award to. With the following album, Harris continued his mettle with all the six songs. The track Siru Parvaiyalae used words in interludes. The album was praised for bringing up visual recapitulation from audio. Harris used a live orchestra of 84 members for the action cop film. In 2009, Harris Jayaraj was signed in for 24, which was to star Vikram.
He was also signed in for the Yoddha 2, starring. But both films were subsequently shelved.In, Harris's 'Danga Maari Oodhari', featuring lyrics in slang become an instant chart-buster. After a hiatus of 6 years, Harris collaborated with for the action cop film. The soundtrack received positive reviews from critics and according to Behindwoods, it was the most played album of 2015 in Chennai radio stations. Live in concert.
Main article:In 2011, Harris announced his first musical world tour titled 'Harris on the Edge'. The tour featured live performance of Harris all over the world accompanied by a troupe of Tamil playback singers, including, and and international musicians and dancers. The event was coordinated by Techfront and was directed. The whole tour was covered by Jaya TV.Studio H Harris opened a new studio on 8 January 2017, called 'Studio H'. The studio consists of the latest audio recording systems and technology.The first song to be composed in the studio was Halena from.
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Running time186 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageTamilBudget₹45Box officeest. ₹60 croreVelayudham ( transl.
The Ultimate Weapon) is a 2011 -language written and directed. It stars in the lead titular role opposite with as the main antagonist alongside, and in supporting roles. The film revolves around a villager who arrives in the city to collect money and is persuaded by a journalist to take on the disguise of Velayudham, a superhero, to eradicate the evils pertaining within the society such as corruption and terrorism. It is inspired by the 2000 Telugu film.Velayudham released on 26 October 2011 clashing with, and became commercially successful. Contents.Plot A young journalist named Bharathi , along with two of her friends, investigates a series of attacks which have taken place in and also illegal activities like. When they are caught video-recording illicit activities happening in a secluded house one night by a group of thugs, they attempt to flee from them. While Bharathi's friends are killed, Bharathi manages to escape despite being stabbed by one of the thugs, but after the attack on Bharathi and her friends, the thugs' vehicle explodes due to a small mishap when a matchstick falls over packets stored in the vehicle, killing all the thugs.
Bharathi comes up with a new idea to eradicate society's evils by creating and propagating a fictional character called 'Velayudham' who wants to clean up the city of terrorism and other illegal activities.The scene then shifts to a village called Pavunoor, where a milk vendor named Velayudham alias Velu is residing with his younger sister Kaveri , whom he loves dearly. He has a cousin named Vaidehi who is deeply in love with him. One day, Velu, Kaveri, and Vaidehi leave for Chennai to collect money from a for Kaveri's marriage. At the, Velu's money is stolen by Speedu , a petty thief.
Velu pursues Speedu on a motorbike parked at the station and manages to get back his money, but moments after alighting from the bike, the bike explodes. The parked bike had a bomb which was meant to ensure a terrorist attack at the railway station, and thus, Velu inadvertently thwarted a deadly terrorist attack which would have killed several people.
After a few more incidents where Velu unknowingly prevents more terrorist attacks, he comes to Bharathi's attention. She convinces him to take up the role of Velayudham and provide hope to the people. In the avatar of Velayudham, Velu starts to eradicate the evils that pertain within the society such as corruption, prostitution, and terrorism, among others. He soon gains wide support and acceptance among the public and even the police.A few months later, Velu returns to Pavunoor with Bharathi for Kaveri's marriage. Seeing Bharathi and Velu getting closer, Vaidehi gets more and more jealous.
She plans to keep an egg under Bharathi's pillow, but she knows about her plan and reveals that one day, he told that after Kaveri's marriage that only Vaidehi could be with him and told to her that she should act as she getting closer to him. Vaidehi feels happy and excited, but Bharathi secretly cries because she, that time, was felt in love with him.
Unknown to Velayudham, Musafir Ibrahim , the leader of a terrorist group, followed him to the village. Ibrahim wants to kill him since he, in the garb of Velayudham, had thwarted every terrorist attack that he had planned in Chennai. On the day of Kaveri's marriage, a bomb planted by Ibrahim at Velu's house explodes, killing Kaveri.A few days after Kaveri's death, a grieving Velu learns from Bharathi that Ulaganathan , the corrupt of, is indirectly responsible for the terrorist attacks and Kaveri's death. Ulaganathan allowed Ibrahim to carry out terrorist attacks in exchange for money. He even tries to gain popularity by claiming Velayudham as his idea, planning to reveal Ibrahim as Velayudham's real identity in a function at the. Velu returns to Chennai, kills Ibrahim, exposes Ulaganathan's misdeeds, and reveals himself as Velayudham to the whole world.Cast. as Velayudham (Velu), the protagonist.
as Vaidehi (Velayutham's love interest). as Bharathi, a journalist who comes up with the idea of Velayudham. as Speed, a petty thief. as Kaveri, Velu's sister. as Head Constable Honest Raj, a supporter of Velayudham.
as Vaidehi's father. as Musafir Ibrahim, the main antagonist.
as Asst.Commissioner Mhd. Released31 August 2011RecordedAudiophilesLength25: 04Languagechronology(2011)Velayudham (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)(2011)(2012)The soundtrack was scored. The audio rights were bought by for a huge amount. The soundtrack consists of six tracks and was released on 31 August 2011, at CSI Grounds in, attended by thousands of Vijay fans. Vijay, Hansika Motwani, Vijay Antony, Viveka, and several distributors and theatre owners were present in function.
In a press statement Ashok Parwani, said, 'We are overwhelmed with the response the movie and the music have received. Velayudham has broken all records and we have sold all our units within a day of its launch. The soundtracks are original, soulful and memorable. We’re sure that the compositions will go down in history as some of the best melodies of our times.' Track listNo.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length1.' Rathathin Rathame'Annamalai,4:382.'
Molachu Moonu'Prasanna, Supriya Joshi4:523.' Mayam Seidhayo'4:145.' Sonna Puriyadhu'Siva Shanmugam, Veera Shankar5:396.' Vela Vela Velayutham'PriyanVijay Antony, Mark1:16Total length:25:04Critical response Pavithra Srinivasan of gave it 3 out of 5 stating 'Vijay Antony plays it safe mostly, with the result that there's nothing new.' Devi from Behindwoods gave it 3 out of 5 and said 'Vijay Antony continues to flaunt his success this time around with Velayutham. The album has a bunch of entertaining soundtrack like, 'Molachu moonu', 'Mayam Seidhayo' and usual mass beat tracks 'Sonna Puriyadhu' and 'Vela Vela'.'
Prakash Upadhyaya from said 'Vijay Antony's music has met the expectations of the audience. The album has all kinds of songs and the music director has targeted the mass as well as class listeners'.
Indiaglitz said 'the music album. presents us a variety fare, however with the main target being the 'mass audience', labelling it as a 'food festival for the appetite of Vijay fans, who are craving for mass masala numbers from their hero'. Release The film was initially supposed to be released on 22 June, coinciding with Vijay's birthday, but was postponed due to a delay in production.Velayudham released on 26 October 2011, during the festival and had a tough competition with. The film was released with over 820 prints worldwide. It also saw a release in about 100 theaters in and 120 theaters in.Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), a pro-Kannada outfit, requested all the theatres in the state not to screen any non-Kannada movie on the occasion of Kannada Rajyaotsava Day but some of the cinema halls did not take their plea seriously, which irked the KRV activists to show their anger against the Tamil film.
However, the theatre authorities realised that the situation might reach out of control and hence, they agreed to cancel all the shows of the day. The film was distributed by producer K Manju in Karnataka. Distribution As per overseas distributor Ayngaran International, the film released in 17 theatres in UK. The US theatrical rights were acquired by GK Media. The film's theatrical distribution rights were sold for ₹40 crore.Home media The satellite rights of the film were sold to for a price of ₹4 crore. The film was given a clean from the. Overseas DVD were marketed by Ayngaran DVD.
Reception Critical response Sify gave the film 4 out of 5 and called it a 'paisa vassol film', stating that the film was a 'perfect outing with family, but far too long in length'. Gave the film 3.5 out of 5, and called it a 'paisa vassol film' defined the film as a 'must watch' and 'treat for Vijay fans'. Indiaglitz labelled it a 'racy entertainer this Deepavali season' and cited it was a 'right choice for the festival mood'. Gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, and concluded that Velayudham is sure to add to his box-office muscle. Behinds woods named the film a 'Complete mass entertainer spiced up by Vijay' and gave the film 3 out of 5 as well. Similarly described it as a 'complete masala entertainer', highlighting its story and 'amazing action-sequences' with a rating of 4 out of five stars. Nowrunning.com rated it 3.5/5, writing: ' Velayudham, part comedy part action sails through both streams smoothly until it is struck and sunk by crude melodrama'.
Stated that the film 'simply enters and entertains' and that Raja had 'churned out reasonably engaging fare', adding that it had a 'strong story, a neat screenplay arresting action, admirable dance movements, one or two hum-worthy numbers and the ever-helpful sister sentiment'. Gave the film 3.5 out of 5, citing that it 'defies all logic, but has the magic of the star called Vijay'.
The Movie was dubbed in Hindi as Superhero Shehanshah.Box office India Velayudham took a big opening on day. The film topped the overseas box office, forcing the producers to release more prints.
In its opening weekend, spanning five days, the film grossed ₹2.1 crore in Chennai. According to trade sources, the film grossed ₹19 crore in and around ₹40 crore during the first week worldwide. On 28 October 2011, two days after its release, Vijay, and director Raja met the press at a hotel in to celebrate the success of the film.The total collections in amounted to ₹7.75 crore in seven weeks. Velayudham also grossed ₹5.20 crore in Kerala during its complete run. Overseas Velayudham was a relatively high grosser in Europe and North America, with, a highlighting that the film was 'rocking internationally'.
Velayudham collected a total of £5,244 in UK. In Australia too, the film collectedA$7,175. Accolades Velayudham was honored with the Best Film Award at V4 Entertainment Awards 2011. Velayudham won the honours in the Best Musician category too. Actor Vijay received and in the year 2012 for Velayudham.Vijay received 'Hero of the year' award at the 7th Variety award 2011 held on 16 December 2012. This section may require to meet Wikipedia's. The specific problem is: Table is confusing.
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