Gulzar-Ilayaraja team up after 26 years

What happens when a legend teams up with another legend for a movie? Naturally, you get a legendary movie! Yes! Gulzar and Ilayaraja are teaming up in a movie titled SRK on painter Raja Ravi Varma, directed by his descendant Ajay Varma. Will we will get a true legendary movie this time? That is in director Ajay Varma's hands. But, we are sure to get a movie about a legend – India's illustrious painting legend, Raja Ravi Varma.�26 years after they teamed up for Balu Mahendra's Sadma�(1983), these�doyens of cinema (one of music, another of poetry)�are coming together for a film.�

Oscar-winner Gulzar is all praise for music maestro Ilayaraja. He says, “Ilayaraja's aptitude and skills for creating the perfect harmony have not altered at all. Ilayaraja is one of his kind. I wish he was heard more often in Hindi cinema.”

SRK will have Vinay Pathak, Rituparna Sengupta and Manoj Joshi in the lead. It is interesting to note that another film on the life of painter Ravi Varma, directed by Ketan Mehta, is already ready for release.

Lyricist Gulzar is confident that with him and Ilayaraja teaming up, this movie will revolutionize the idiom of expression of film music. Let's hope for the best!

 

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