Tagaru was talked about for its title, and for bringing together Shivarajkumar and Suri for the second time after Kaddipudi. Now Suri tells us that its story was developed also during the recording of its songs. The director along with young music director Charan Raj decided to change the usual pattern of scoring music and chose to go with songs based on different themes.
He brought in upcoming talents such as music director Charan Raj and cinematgorapher Mahendra Simha on board for the project to break the monotony of the usual style of film making. The director spoke to City Express about his association with the music director who has helped him bring in different tunes and how music holds a strong place in Tagaru.Suri says that the script of Tagaru was developed based on its music. “I just had a line and knew what the gist of the story is. But I got more clarity once the songs got ready. The story of the film progresses according to the sound.”
His passion towards music led him to associate with Sadhu Kokila and V Harikrishna. “Going back to my earlier days of filmmaking, before I got associated with V Harikrishna, I started working with filmmaker Sadhu Kokila because of music. Though I did not have any idea about the tunes, I only knew to identify what’s right and wrong about it, which I explained to the new music director. I was just particular about my Tagaru album. I did not want it be the usual ones. Hence, we started off with that idea.”
Theme-based songs
For Suri, an introductory song, duet, patho and love songs are a regular norm of every film’s music album. and he wanted to change that with Tagaru. “I decided to go with eight songs, which are mostly theme-based. This was the first instruction given to Charan Raj by me.”
Suri apparently suggested various themes. “We started with emotion of fear, and that gave rise to the track Nina Bayave.” The lyrics are written by Jayanth Kaikini. “Similarly we had a theme-based song on trance, which we call as Nasha. The music director came up with Mentalu Ojjava. For this particular song, I had Kiran Kaverappa and Vardik Joseph writing the lyrics as they know about various drugs. I suggested a theme song for Tagaru, for which Nagendra Prasad wrote the lyrics. Then there are tracks on staying positive and on relationships. There is only one track on travel, and this stands out, with lyrics written by Yogaraj Bhat,” he says.
Montage technique used for all songs
Unlike a set song or a usual track, Suri and his team planned to try a montage with all the tracks and that’s one of the reasons why they took 120 days to shoot. “We travelled that extra mile and we have featured 170 locations through eight songs. Interestingly, the dances were choreographed by Suri and Mahendra Simha except for one dance song ‘Hold on’ was choreographed by Harsha in half a day. I also had my team member Raju choreographing a few steps.”
He adds that he got a cue from a few school boys from the slum area for a few dance steps. “We shot a video of them dancing and later we included those steps in our film,” says Suri.The project is now in post-production stage and is gearing up for a mega audio launch on December 23. The grand event is planned to be held at Hospete.KP Sreekanth, a big fan of Shivanna, is producing this film. The film has an ensemble cast with actor Dhananjay playing the role of an antaognist along with Vasishta Simha, Bhavana and Manvitha.
Club version of Baluma..and Mental..to be out along with the ablum
The makers are also bringing out the club versions of songs Baluma Baluma and Mental Ojjava featuring Shivarajkumar and Manvitha Harish “The song tunes as such that it can make for a good remix versions and we are working on it. This will also be part of our ablum,”, Suri says