Sithara Krishnakumar talks about ‘Elelam kili’, the new music video of her band

There is an uplifting vibe astir ‘Elelam kili’, the caller Tamil azygous by Sithara Krishnakumar’s band, Project Malabaricus. “The happiness we find successful each different arsenic a set comes crossed successful the song,” says Sithara, who is presently successful the UK for shows with her band.

The euphony video released precocious is directed by Anand Menen, who helmed the movies Vaazha : Biopic of a Billion Boys and Gauthamante Ratham.

Sithara says that they archetypal sang the Malayalam mentation of the song, written by BK Harinarayanan, astatine their signifier show. “When Anand came up with a storyline that had a terrain successful Tamil Nadu arsenic the backdrop we decided to person a Tamil version. The Malayalam mentation volition beryllium released connected March 8,” says Sithara. Ahamed Shyam has written the Tamil lyrics.

She adds that her little to Harinarayanan earlier penning the lyrics was that it should beryllium a question opus and the communicative told done a girl’s constituent of view. The opus is simply a instrumentality connected quality relationships arsenic seen done the beingness of this miss who has mislaid her mother, a classical dancer, and hence surviving with her mother’s sister and husband. When her aunt’s hubby makes it wide that helium can’t instrumentality the girl’s responsibility, she leaves home, with a ripped photograph of her parent and an code written down it.

The opus follows her travel and however she reaches the destination with the assistance of strangers astatine antithetic points of time. Her travel ends with a astonishment for her and the committedness of a caller life.

The item of ‘Elelam kili’ is histrion Manju Warrier’s cameo. Once the video was out, societal media went connected an overdrive, celebrating her accepted look. “We had kept it arsenic a surprise. I wished that we person her successful the video and I was ecstatic erstwhile she said yes. After that her squad took up the project. They brought successful Anand arsenic manager and Bineesh Chandra arsenic originative producer.”

Sithara adds that Anand’s storyline had everything she had envisaged and helium managed to propulsion disconnected precisely what helium had narrated.

Speaking astir the people elements successful the opus she says the squad has ever loved to play astir with that genre. “Percussionist PK Sunil Kumar, a changeless successful our productions, designed the elements. The nadaswaram information complemented it,” she says, adding that but for the concern group, Oxygen, they would not person been capable to equine specified a immense production. Folk instrumentalist Gana Vimala has besides sung a information successful the song.

Reflecting connected the joyful clip they had portion shooting successful Madurai, grooving and shaking a limb successful colourful costumes, Sithara says, “Although we each person a superior attack to music, we similar to support things light. None of america are stubborn astir anything. There is simply a basal discipline. That’s all. When we got a airy hookline similar ‘Elelam kili’, it was decided ‘let’s dance’ and we conscionable did that.”

Looking backmost astatine their travel since the enactment of the set successful 2017, Sithara says that they are a household now. “The abstraction we person created is an casual 1 wherever everybody tin person an opinion. We cognize each others’ temper swings. There is nary hierarchy successful presumption of age, acquisition oregon cognition astir music. Our respective families are adjacent to each different arsenic well. We assistance each different to grow. We are not restricted by immoderate deadline to decorativeness a work. At the aforesaid clip determination is nary compromise connected what each idiosyncratic has to do,” she explains.

The set is besides overwhelmed astir the abstraction they are getting successful the indie euphony country successful Kerala. “I americium ever excited astir however the assemblage person accepted us. We don’t fuss astir the numbers erstwhile we merchandise a track. We are blessed adjacent if a fewer tin subordinate to what we create. We each cognize our limitations and we effort to propulsion the envelope each time. We besides look guardant to learning more, going heavy into music.”

She says that each set subordinate has an idiosyncratic travel arsenic musicians. She, for example, finds clip to juggle among playback, judging a euphony world show, and singing for indie productions, balancing it each with her idiosyncratic life. “It is not stressful due to the fact that I americium wherever I wanted to be. This is simply a blessing and I americium grateful that I americium successful this space.”

Her set members are Srinath Nair (keyboard), Liboy Praisly and Vijo Job (guitars), Ajay Krishnan (bass), and Midhun Paul (drums)

‘Elelam kili’ is streaming connected YouTube