"The Madras Song" produced by the

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is a tribute to the city of

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and was launched in commemoration of its 375th year which was celebrated in August 2014 . There was a sequel to this song by

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G7 for

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group called Madras Beats in 2016 launched on the eve of 377th birthday celebrations of the

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The Storyline

The story is of a female protagonist, Ruchi Kumar who misses her flight back home and is stuck in Madras, with three days in hand she turns to social media to help her discover the city of Madras. The song features actor/model

Yasmin Ponnappa Yasmin Ponnappa is an Indian model from Bangalore. After appearing in print media and television commercials, Yasmin first worked as an actress in Thiagarajan Kumararaja's gangster film ''Aaranya Kaandam'' (2011). Career Yasmin Ponnappa began ...

. as the protagonist Ruchi Kumar, apart from the umpteen other stars from different walks of life like

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Gautham Vasudev Menon Gautham Vasudev Menon (born 25 February 1973) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema, Tamil film industry. He has also directed Telugu cinema, Telugu and Hindi cinema, Hindi films th ...

Sudha Raghunathan Sudha Ragunathan is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer and composer. She was conferred the Kalaimamani award by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1994, Padma Shri (2004) and Padma Bhushan (2015) by the Government of India, and Sangeetha Kalanidh ...

Naresh Iyer Naresh Iyer (born 3 January 1981) is an Indian playback singer. Born Mumbai, Iyer is fluent in Malayalam,Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Marathi. Naresh Iyer has rendered 2000 film songs in several Indian languages and has several chart hits to hi ...

Aalap Raju Aalaap Raju (born 6 June 1979) is a playback singer and a bass player from Chennai, India. His rendition of Enamo Aedho from the movie '' Ko'' composed by Harris Jayaraj topped the music charts for several months in 2011 and won him the Filmfar ...

Haricharan Haricharan Seshadri, known mononymously as Haricharan (born 20 March 1987), is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, playback singer, and musician who predominantly works in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu music and cinema. He sung 2000 songs in films, albu ...

, Priyadarshini Govind,

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, “Crazy" Mohan and "Maadhu" Balaji.

The Team

Writer / Director: Vijay Prabakaran Music Director: Vishal Chandrashekhar Lyricist: Subu Singer:

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Cinematographers: GVS Raju & Imran Ahmedh KR Lead Actress:

Executive Producer: Krishna Ramkumar Associate Director: Swathi Raghuraaman Assistant Directors: Meera.Karthik, Keerthi Raju Production Assistant:RM Ramesh kumar Camera Assistant: Baskar Stylist: Yasmin Ponnappa Post Production: Red Studio Editor: Vijay Prabakaran Colorist: Madan Logo Design: Hakuhodo Percept, Chennai Produced by The

Radio Partner: 92.7 BigFM

References

External links

The Madras Song Official Video on Youtube
2014 singles Songs in Tamil Indian songs 2014 songs Songs about India Culture of Chennai Murugappa Group {{2010s-song-stub