Ok Kanmani Movie Song

[Boyan Atanaschev]

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Anu is a college student; her fellow student Sasi desperately tries to win her affection. Sasi and Anu play various pranks on each other. Anu eventually admits her affection for Sasi and they begin a courtship. All seems to be well, but Anu is strangely sad from time to time; she repeats to Sasi that she senses an imminent danger to their relationship, but she is unable to pinpoint what the threat is or describe why it may materialise soon.

Anu begins to get frequent sharp headaches. Her father, A. R. Rangaraj (ARR), a widower, tries to help her, but is not able to get to the bottom of the matter. ARR is a gentle old man who has devoted most of his life to his daughter. On her 18th birthday, Anu visits her doctor who determines that she has bilateral renal artery stenosis and is almost certain to succumb within a year. She may require an operation within that time, but the likelihood of her coming through it alive is minimal.

Anu asks the doctor to keep her illness a secret between them. Unknown to Anu, her father accidentally discovers it when the local pharmacist sends some prescription drugs through him. When Anu discusses the matter with Sasi, he expresses his support despite his grave sadness out of his love for her. Anu reveals a thread from her past that may explain her melancholic mood.

The film flashes back to several years before, when ARR had a happy family. Anu, then five or six, attended school; ARR worked and his wife managed the home. When ARR lost his wife to an illness, Anu took this particularly hard. ARR tried to help her cope with it and move on. Later, ARR met Sarada at a wedding. When ARR sought a tutor for Anu, Sarada took the position. The friendship evolved into a courtship, and ARR was about to propose marriage.

As time went on, Sarada realised her own responsibilities. Both her parents were deaf-mute, and she was the only way they could communicate with others; this left her torn between her filial duty and her personal aspirations. Things worsened when Anu missed her mother and was unable to accept Sarada (or anyone else) as a replacement. Sarada was bewildered and ultimately frustrated by all this. Despite ARR's assurances that they could work it out, she refused his proposal and decided to move to another city; her parents committed suicide as they felt they were a hindrance to their daughter. Since then, Anu has been plagued by guilt for her part in the breakup.

The doctors schedule the surgery. Anu takes this with stoic grief, and asks Sasi for one last thing: to find Sarada and attempt to reunite her with ARR. They find an old picture of Sarada, and Sasi recognises her as a woman he had met in Bangalore a few weeks ago. He sets off on a frantic hunt for Sarada. On the day of the operation, Sarada happens to be in Chennai en route to a training event in the United States. After a series of near-misses, Sasi locates her in the nick of time and brings her to Anu and ARR moments before Anu gets anaesthetised. Anu later goes for one last ride with Sasi on his motorbike and, right before they leave, she says that she has gained faith in surviving the surgery.

Vasanth approached S. P. Balasubrahmanyam to portray A. R. Rangaraj (ARR).[3] The pair had earlier worked on Manathil Urudhi Vendum (1987), for which Vasanth was an assistant director. Vasanth was impressed with his realistic acting style and felt a "strong impression of him as a good actor, so we roped him in as an acting coup". Balasubrahmanyam was initially hesitant to accept the offer as he did not want Vasanth to take a risk by making a film with him as the lead actor. Vasanth remained firm with his selection because he wanted ARR "to be a character, which would not be possible with a popular face".[5]

Suhasini was Vasanth's first choice for the role of Sarada, but she could not accept the offer due to her busy schedule; Radhika was chosen instead. Ramesh Aravind was cast as Sasi because Vasanth worked with him in the Kannada film Sundara Swapnagalu (1986).[5] According to Aravind, Vasanth approached him because the actor who was his original choice for the role could not accept.[10] Sukanya and Ramya Krishnan were initial choices for the role of Anu, but could not accept due to other commitments; Anju was finally chosen by Vasanth, despite the scepticism of the crew since she was a relative newcomer. Neena played the character as a child after Vasanth saw her in Idhayathai Thirudathe, the Tamil-dubbed version of the Telugu film Geethanjali (1989).[5]

While scouting for filming locations, Vasanth came across an old house which was available for filming only for two days; he decided this would be the original house of Sarada.[11] The first shot Vasanth directed was the scene where Sarada cries over the death of her parents.[12][13] Before filming the scene, Radhika asked for some time to prepare; she came much later and finished filming the scene in one take.[11] Arvind's first scenes to be filmed were those with Radhika; he had only three days to film those scenes as Radhika was due to leave for London soon after. His other scenes, including those with Anju, were filmed after he worked on his call-sheet dates.[10]

Due to Balasubrahmanyam's playback singing commitments, he could only shoot for two hours each day.[9] The scooter that Balasubrahmanyam drove as ARR was a Bajaj Chetak.[14] The song "Mannil Indha Kaadhal" was filmed at a beach off East Coast Road, Mahabalipuram.[15][16]

The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, and the soundtrack album was released by Echo Records.[17] Ilaiyaraaja was Vasanth's only choice for composing the music; despite his busy schedule, he accepted the offer.[18] The song "Nee Pathi Naan Pathi" is set in Chakravakam, a Carnatic raga,[19][20] and "Mannil Indha Kaadhal" is set in Keeravani.[21] The song "Varanam Aayiram" is a ragamalika, a song set in multiple ragas; one stanza is set in Nayaki.[22][23]

"Mannil Indha Kaadhal" was not originally planned to appear in the film. Vasanth wanted to showcase Balasubrahmanyam's singing prowess in a scene, but did not know how to do it. The idea of "breathless singing" eventually struck Vasanth; and Balasubrahmanyam agreed.[5] The song has Balasubrahmanyam singing two stanzas seemingly without taking a single breath in between the lines.[24] Vasanth initially proposed that the entire song be sung in one breath, but Ilaiyaraaja said to restrict that to specific stanzas. Balasubrahmanyam took 40 seconds to sing the second breathless stanza; he sang breathlessly for the first 25 seconds, and the last 15 seconds after briefly inhaling. It was then edited to look like he sang the entire stanza without taking breath.[3]

When Ilaiyaraaja asked if the song "Karpoora Bommai Ondru" could be played in bits throughout the film, rather than all at once, Vasanth agreed because "it would be like something that haunts the characters, and make audiences expect for the moment when we would play it in its entirety".[5] The entire soundtrack (except for "Mannil Indha Kaadhal") was completed in 45 minutes.[5][13] Ilaiyaraaja took three days to compose the background music for the two reels forming the climax.[5] For the Telugu-dubbed version O Papa Lali, all lyrics were written by Rajasri.[25]

Keladi Kannmanii was released on 27 July 1990.[26] The film was a commercial success, running for over 285 days in theatres,[13] becoming a silver jubilee film.[27] The success of the film enabled Ramesh Aravind to obtain roles in other Tamil films.[10]

The male version of "Mental Manadhil" was the released as the first single from the soundtrack album. The soundtrack album was released on the midnight of 3 April 2015 by Sony Music India.[2] Upon release, the soundtrack album garnered positive reviews from the music critics who praised the fusion of classical and contemporary genres, sync of songs with film narration and the production quality.

In October 2014, it was announced that music director A. R. Rahman and lyricist Vairamuthu will compose the soundtrack in Tamil.[5] Later, Sirivennela Sitaramasastri was opted to write lyrics for the Telugu version.[6] In December 2014, Rahman announced that his son A. R. Ameen will be recording a song for the soundtrack.[7] Mani Ratnam wanted an original soundtrack from Rahman that was contemporary as well as trendy.[8] Rahman took inputs from the story and gave it a musical form.[8] In an interview with The Hindu, lyricist Vairamuthu revealed few track names and the sounds associated with them.[9] He called the track "Paranthu Sella Vaa" anthemic and the track "Naane Varugiren" as youthful.[10] According to Rahman, the film's subject was "youthful" and he tried to bring that kind of feel in the songs as well. He described the tracks as 'adventurous'.[11][12] Since Leela Samson plays the role of a retired old Carnatic singer in the film, there is a tinge of Carnatic music in the film.[8] Additional compositions to the film score were done by Qutb-e-Kripa, an ensemble of musicians from A. R. Rahman's own music institute KM Music Conservatory.[13] Rahman along with his singers have sung Carnatic compositions of musicians Tyagaraja and Annamacharya for the film score.[14] In an interview with Deccan Chronicle, Rahman mentioned that his request to Mani Ratnam, a complete song was dropped after filming because of the explicit lyrical content.[15]

The song was used multiple times in the course of the film Manjummel Boys, a survival drama woven around friendship, based on a real life story. Shawn Antony, one of the producers of the film, told TNM that they had acquired all the rights from the two music companies concerned, for using the Gunaa song.

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