While composing for Mankatha, Yuvan had only one thing in mind — the music should be rich and sound had to be one-of-a-kind that people have heard before. In fact, he wasn’t keen on singing in the film.
“Nor did I wanted to compose a pathos number, but Venkat literally forced me to compose and sing it as well,” says the star composer about Nanbane. “But I have decided that this is going to be my last pathos song ever. I don’t want to touch upon it for a while in my music,” he declares.
Yuvan enjoys experimenting with genres like folk, jazz and peppy tunes. “If you observe, Machi Open the Bottle, for which Premji has also lent his voice, is a track with a folk touch to it,” he explains.
He has taken utmost care while composing the title track (Vilaiyadu Mankatha) because it had to focus on the significance of the game. “It had to be a great introduction song for Ajith. It’s his 50th film after all,” he says.
Yuvan feels releasing the single track helped him in many ways. “I remember reading a tweet by a follower soon after Mankatha songs were released on August 10. It went something like this — ‘Thank god you released the music much later so that we had enough time to get used to the single track before we actually enjoyed its other songs after that’. That was something!” he recalls.
Yuvan has also composed three songs for Billa 2, one of which was picturised recently. The date, August 31 is of significance to Yuvan, not just because of the release of Mankatha but it also marks his birthday.