NEP Audio rights for record price?

Maestro Ilaiyaraaja’s achievements, status and stature within the Tamil film industry are unparalleled. The instant a movie is announced with Ilaiyaraaja’s music, expectations start increase among his fans specifically about his music and usually about what the film might need to provide. Ilaiyaraaja, who started his musical sojourn within the mid-seventies, have been going strong for greater than 35 years now and finds himself in an unassailable position despite him taking a break from composing music for many a part of the last decade.

That gap allowed his son Yuvan Shankar Raja, a highly talented individual, to cement his palce within the industry. Now, Ilaiyaraaja is back and is back with a bang. Considered one of his major upcoming films can be Needhanae En Ponvasantham (NEP) directed by Gautham Menon. That is the primary time Menon is operating with Ilaiyaraaja in his decade-long career as film-maker in Kollywood.

The film’s audio rights are presently within the strategy of negotiation. Reports say that Sony Music has reportedly offered an unprecedented sum of two crore to bag the audio rights of the film which stars Jiiva and Samantha in lead roles within the Tamil version while Naani replaces Jiiva for the Telugu version. Menon might finally accept 2.50 crore, it's further reported.

If the deal is struck, the price the film’s audio-rights would easily overtake that of Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya, Menon’s earlier film which had music by A.R. Rahman.