![]() ![]() ‘Summa adhirichu’! I even accompanied her to the shoot. On the day of the lyric video’s release, we streamed it at a music studio here. The singer’s 11-yearold grandson looks at her lovingly and smiles. I feel alive now,” smiles Mariyammal, seated in her house in Taramani. However, this song has changed my state of mind and my life. Hope has been an elusive concept in my life. “Ennale nambave mudiyale (I am in disbelief). Since its release, the song on YouTube, under Think Music India’s channel, has received over 7.7 million views. ![]() Little did the singer know that it would make her an overnight sensation. On February 18, the makers of Dhanush-starrer ‘Karnan’ released the movie’s first single Kandaa Vara Sollunga - an intense, high-octane folk song penned by director Mari Selvaraj, composed by Santhosh Narayanan, and featuring 50-year-old Mariyammal along with the stirring beats by parai artistes. Forty- two years later, the name and the fruity voice has transcended the meadows and ponds of her town and travelled to places far and wide. Weaving words to describe the picturesque views around her with a folksy tune, unaware where life was going to lead her, she playfully sang: “Kidakuzhi yen ooru, Mariyammal yen peru…”. CHENNAI: In 1978, sitting amid lush green fields in Kidakuzhi - a quaint village in Sivaganga district and munching on freshlyharvested sugarcane, an eight-year-old girl was suddenly creatively inspired. ![]()
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