Audio of ’Nirel’ Tulu movie Released during Dasara Utsav

By Ashritha D’Souza
Pics by John V Tauro
Bellevision Media Network

Mangalore, 15 Oct 2013: The audio launch of the first international Tulu movie ‘Nirel’, which has been completely shot in the UAE, took place amidst a huge crowd during the Dasara celebration here on Monday October 14.

 

After the audio release, music director Abhishek S N entertained the crowd with the song ‘Daane’ from the movie, accompanied by ‘Ocean Kids’ dance troupe.

 

In addition, leading actors of the movie - Anoop Sagar, Varuna Shetty and Deepti too performed on stage for 5 other songs of the movie. The movie of two-and-a-half-hours duration comprises 6 songs, including 1 item number, all sung by new singers.

 

Sandalwood director and actor Dayal Padmanabhan was present on the dais.

 

Dayal said, ‘I enjoyed all the songs. The quality of the songs is good,’ said Dayal. He congratulated the team and wished the movie success.

 

The movie director Ranjith Bajpe, producer Shodhan Prasad, co-producer San Poojary, lyricist Loku Kudla, Sitaram Kulal, and story writer Karthik Gowda were present on the occasion.

 

Nagaraj Amber compered the programme.

 

The songs in the movie are ’Balcony’ (Item song), ’Daane enna manas’, ’Serrnaga ee manass’, ’Eaane chandire’, ’Daaye enan’, ’Mokeda singari’, and ’Mokeda singari revisited’.

 

 

The audio launch was held during a six-hour long cultural extravaganza jointly organized by South Kanara Muncipal Employees’ Union and Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) for a crowd of at least 30,000 as part of Mangalore Dasara and Navarathri celebrations near Lal Bagh, here.

 

The cultural programme that started with devotional songs at 7.00pm continued till 1.30 am. Nearly 35 songs were sung along with dance performances and comedy skits.

 

Ramachandra, Ajay Varrier of Bangalore, Sarikha of Shimoga, Anita D’Souza, Iqbal, Prahlad, Ranjan Das, Sandesh, Pallavi Prabhu of Mangalore, Rihana of Kerala were a few popular singers who performed on the occasion.

 

‘Ocean Kids’ dance troupe added more glamour to the occasion with its scintillating dance performances. Raj Gopal Verma and team provided the background music.

 

During a short inaugural programme, Mangalore South MLA J R Lobo, DCC general secretary T K Sudhir, corporator Sadashiv Das Pandeshwar, South Kanara Muncipal Employees’ Union president Shivraj and office bearers were also present.