Dhanush-starrer Ilaiyaraaja Biopic To Go On Floors In Oct 2024 – FilmyVoice
Legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja, who has delivered some iconic soundtracks in Indian cinema like ‘Nayakan’, ‘Sadma’, ‘Thevar Magan’, ‘Aa Raathri’ and several other others, is getting a biopic. What’s extra thrilling is that Tamil celebrity Dhanush shall be portraying the legendary composer on display screen.
The taking pictures for the yet-to-be-titled movie is scheduled to start out in October 2024 with the makers aiming for therelease of the movie round mid-2025.
Ilaiyaraaja is likely one of the most prolific composers in a profession spanning over forty-seven years, he has composed over 7,000 songs and supplied movie scores for over 1,000 movies and aside from performing in over 20,000 live shows. He’s nicknamed “Isaignani” (the musical sage) and sometimes called “Maestro”, the title conferred by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London. Oscar and Grammy-winning composer A. R. Rahman, too, began the aegis of Ilaiyaraaja. He was the protege of the maestro when he joined him in 1986.
Dhanush is likely one of the largest superstars of Tamil cinema who has additionally cultivated a loyal fan following in north India as properly along with his movies like ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Atrangi Re’. He has starred in 46 movies and his accolades embrace 4 Nationwide Movie Awards (two as actor and two as producer), fourteen SIIMA Awards.
The brand new movie is part of collaboration between Connekkt Media and Mercuri, and is the primary movie from their slate of a number of movies set for the following three years.
Commenting on the affiliation, Connekkt Media’s Varun Mathur mentioned: “Mercuri is likely one of the most reputed names in world leisure house and has been an incredible accomplice to us and we’re thrilled to be becoming a member of palms with them to provide a number of mega-budget movies beginning with the biopic of a music legend not like another. As a nationwide studio our partnership with Mercuri locations us in an excellent place to ship enthralling content material to hundreds of thousands of followers India and globally throughout this very thrilling section.”
Connekkt Media would be the studio for the movies and Connekkt Media and Mercuri Group shall be producing the movies collectively.
Sriram Bakthisaran, MD & Group CEO, Mercuri, mentioned: “A resurgence of high quality content material from the area which is house to the 4 thriving movie industries in addition to a big entertainment-hungry viewership, a bigger than life fan following base seen nowhere on the planet. The content material popping out from this area is quick attracting world pursuits and gaining prominence on pan India scale and with our already important presence within the south market having serviced a number of the largest manufacturing homes and the celebrities previously.”
“We really feel we’re higher positioned to develop our choices than earlier than as we collectively enterprise out to feed all stakeholders together with the buyer,” he added.
