At the outset, allow me to express my h eartfelt gratitude
At the outset, allow me to express my h eartfelt gratitude to all those kind souls who paved the way for this memorable project #GVP100.
I made my debut as a music director in t he Tamil film industry with Veyil.
My first and formost thanks go to direct ors Shankar and Vasanthabalan for givin g me the opportunity to score music for this landmark film. It was after scoring f or Veyil that I got the opportunity to sco re music for several other films.
I have been blessed with opportunities t o score music for several films featuring the leading stars from the film industry s uch as Rajinikanth,Ajith,Vijay,Vikram, Su riya,Dhanush, Silambarasan T R,Prabha s,Ravi Teja,Siddharth,Karthi, Arya, Visha l,Jayam Ravi,Sivakarthikeyan,Dulquer S alman,Ram Pothineni,Atharva ,Raghava Lawrence,Arun Vijay,Bharath,Pasupath y .
For this, I need to thank several director s including Vasantabalan, A L Vijay, Push kar – Gayathri, P Vasu, Vetrimaran, Selv araghavan, Dhanush, Sudha Kongara, Bh arathirajaa, Atlee, Hari, Simbudevan, Ba la, Cheran, Samuthirakani, Muthaiah, A dhik Ravichandran, Manikandan, Sam A nton,Pa Ranjith, M Rajesh, Mithran R Ja wahar, Thankar Bachan, A Karuna Kara
n,Venky Atluri, Arun Matheswaran and Rajkumar Periyasamy for directing thes e films.
My heartfelt thanks also go to all my pro ducers including K Balachander, Kalaipu li S Thanu, AGS Entertainment Kalpathi S Aghoram,Five Star Kathiresan, Sure sh Balaji, Prakash Raj, Aascar V Ravichandr an,Studio Green Gnanavel Raja, ArunPa ndian, Karunamoorthy, Pushpa Kandas wamy, R.Raveendran,A R Murgadoss, S.
R Prabhu,T Siva, Michael Rayappan, T G Thyagarajan, BVSN.Prasad,Sithara Ente rtainment Naga Vamsi,Mythri Movie M akers Ravi – Naveen, Abhishek Agarwal ,Lyca Productions Subaskaran, R Chandr a Prakash Jain and R.SarathKumar – Mrs Radhika Sarathkumar.
I am immensely thankful to Bollywood a ctor Akshay Kumar, director and actor A nurag Kashyap and to all the musicians a nd techinicians who have worked with me.
At a time when I was longing to score m usic for a film featuring actor Kamal Ha asan sir, I got the opportunity to score m usic for ‘Amaran’, a film that was produc uced by him. I was thrilled to bits when Kamal sir, after listening to the score a nd the songs of the film, appreciated me.
Apart from being a music director, I hav e also rendered several songs as a singe r. I wish to thank the music directors, pr oducers and directors who gave me the opportunity to sing these songs. I also th ank my fellow musicians and fans who m ade these songs a success.
My journey, which began in the year 200 5, has culminated in this moment in 202 4 wherein I have got the opportunity to score the music for my 100th film. I have reached this landmark number of 100 b y scoring music for the upcoming, yet-t o-be-titled film of director Sudha Konga ra, whose ‘Soorarai Pottru’ fetched me t he National Award.
I take this moment to thank directors, pr oducers,musicians ,Singers,Lyricists,act ors, actresses and technicians who gave me opportunities in this consistent jour ney, that has lasted over 19 years, and al so mediapersons, who have always supp orted and continue to support me to thi s day.
I intend to continue working diligently a s a music director, actor and singer and e xpress my heartfelt appreciation and gr ratitude to all those who have extended support to me.
With love,
GV Prakash Kumar