Music of Jigarthanda (2014 film)
The music for the 2014 Tamil-language crime drama film Jigarthanda (transl. cold-hearted) is composed by Santhosh Narayanan. The film directed by Karthik Subbaraj and produced by S. Kathiresan, stars Siddharth, Bobby Simha, Lakshmi Menon, Karunakaran and Guru Somasundaram. The music for the film released under two different albums—one contains the original songs which had lyrics written by Muthamil, Arunraja Kamaraj, Anthony Daasan, Pradeep Kumar and Sean Roldan, and the other contained several cues of original music underscored in the background. The first album was released on March 2014, five months before the film's theatrical release with the second album being unveiled after the film's release. Both the albums were distributed under the Think Music label. Santhosh's work met with acclaim, both from critics and audiences, regarding it as one of his best works.
Production
Jigarthanda is Santhosh's second consecutive association with Subbaraj, after scoring the latter's debut film Pizza (2012). With this film, Santhosh launches the Sandy Jazz Band, whose members—Narayanan playing the keyboard, Australian musicians Hamish Stuart and Graham Jesse playing the drums and saxophone and Chennai-based Leon James and Naveen Napier, playing the electronic piano and guitar, respectively. Besides, he also recorded music with a street folk band for a song, and also worked with Pradeep Kumar, Anthony Daasan, Sean Roldan and Kalyani Nair to provide vocals. Lyricist Arunraja Kamaraj who previously wrote songs for Pizza (2012) and Pizza II: Villa (2013), debuted as a singer through this film. He provided vocals for the song "Ding Dong" which was recorded in a way that he would mimic the voice of Vinu Chakravarthy for the antagonist's introduction.[1]
Santhosh Narayanan recorded the music for the film along with his newly launched Sandy's Jazz Band. While Santhosh, besides composing, played the keyboard, Australian musicians Hamish Stuart and Graham Jesse played the drums and the saxophone, respectively, and Leon James and Naveen, both from Chennai, played the electronic piano and guitar respectively.[2] Santhosh also worked with a street band from Tanjore to record one song from the film. He also introduced independent musicians, Pradeep Kumar, Sean Roldan, Anthony Daasan, Mani, Kalyani Nair to work with the film's soundtrack.[3] With Muthamil, Arunraja Kamaraj, Anthony Daasan, Pradeep Kumar and Sean Roldan penning lyrics, the album features nine numbers of different genres, which includes fusion, folk and rap, with two instrumentals, one of them being performed by the composer's Sandy Jazz band.[4]
The audio rights were purchased by Think Music.[5] The official track list of the film was published on 1 March 2014.[6] The complete soundtrack album was launched on 3 March 2014 at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai, with the presence of producer S. Thanu and director Bharathiraja.[citation needed] A live band performance of Anthony Daasan took place and theatrical trailer of the film was screened at the event.[7]
The album received positive response. The Times of India stated, "Santhosh Narayanan shows, yet again, that he is one of those composers to watch out for — both for his new sounds and tunes. Jigarthanda is another worthy addition" and rated the album 3 out of 5.[8] Baradwaj Rangan in his review wrote, "It’s a good thing Santhosh Narayanan is around. His flamboyant score imbues even the weaker scenes with a Tarantinoesque swagger".[9] Sify wrote, "Santosh Narayanan’s background score is the major plus of the movie, as he is able to capture the mood of the film".[10]
Top 10 Cinema stated "Almost all the songs in ‘Jigarthanda’ are a collage of new endeavours and we can consider this to be a special one. With a couple of songs including ‘Kannamma Kannama’ capturing our senses right in the first time, rest of them would take some time to brew."[11]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Artist(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Kannamma" | Muthamil | Rita Thyagarajan, Anthony Daasan | 3:33 |
| 2. | "Ding Dong" | Arunraja Kamaraj | Arunraja Kamaraj, Mose | 3:54 |
| 3. | "Paandi Naatu Kodi" | Anthony Daasan | Anthony Daasan | 3:38 |
| 4. | "Dhesayum Ezhundhaney" | Pradeep Kumar | Meenakshi Iyer, Santhosh Narayanan | 2:47 |
| 5. | "Baby" | Muthamil | Santhosh Narayanan | 3:02 |
| 6. | "Jigar" | Pradeep Kumar | Pradeep Kumar | 3:28 |
| 7. | "Thanda" | Instrumental | 2:18 | |
| 8. | "Hoo Haa" | Sean Roldan | Sean Roldan, Santhosh Narayanan | 1:41 |
| 9. | "Ottam" | Sandy's Jazz Band | 2:35 | |
| Total length: | 26:51 | |||
The soundtrack of the Telugu dubbed version Chikkadu Dorakkadu was released on 17 July 2014 at Taj Deccan in Hyderabad. The Telugu lyrics had been written by Vennelakanti and Chandrabose. Unlike the original version which have nine songs in the album, the Telugu album has five songs.[12][13]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Venchindi Venchindi" | Vennelakanti | Divya | 3:37 |
| 2. | "Neelo Gundala" | Chandrabose | Raghu Kunche | 3:18 |
| 3. | "Dizaya" | Vennelakanti | Saradha Mohan | 2:47 |
| 4. | "Baby" | Vennelakanti | Abhishek | 3:04 |
| 5. | "Ding Dong" | Chandrabose | Azam Sheriff | 3:56 |
| Total length: | 16:39 | |||
Soundtrack
The original background score was released on 25 August 2014 at the Radio Mirchi FM Station in Chennai.[14] It features the complete soundtrack and background music along with some dialogues from the film.[15]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Assault Sethu" | 1:06 |
| 2. | "Brains" | 1:01 |
| 3. | "Boy from Madurai" | 1:58 |
| 4. | "Kuppa Padam" | 1:10 |
| 5. | "Results" | 1:06 |
| 6. | "Oorni" | 0:18 |
| 7. | "Giri from Madurai" | 1:13 |
| 8. | "Potti Kada Pazhani" | 0:41 |
| 9. | "Sethu Gang" | 1:06 |
| 10. | "Ice Cube Sarakku" | 0:50 |
| 11. | "Kuruvamma Kaviyam Hallucination" | 0:25 |
| 12. | "Sorry Teacher" | 2:22 |
| 13. | "Ruthless Killers" | 0:49 |
| 14. | "Titanic" | 2:28 |
| 15. | "Half Time" | 1:46 |
| 16. | "Muthu Sir (Acting Teacher)" | 1:32 |
| 17. | "Kayal's Love" | 0:51 |
| 18. | "Inside a Delusional Mind" | 0:28 |
| 19. | "Company Rules" | 2:34 |
| 20. | "Film Roll" | 0:45 |
| 21. | "Beginning of the End" | 1:00 |
| 22. | "Palani's Dream" | 2:30 |
| 23. | "Didgeridoo" | 0:38 |
| 24. | "Soul Searching" | 1:13 |
| 25. | "Epic Proportions" | 6:55 |
| 26. | "Uyir Pichai" | 2:54 |
| 27. | "Salfogree" | 1:30 |
| Total length: | 40:42 | |
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- ^ Rangan, Baradwaj (2 August 2014). "Jigarthanda: Racket science" Archived 9 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine. The Hindu. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
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