Tamil filmdom has seen a lot of directors who are adept at other branches of film-making as well, including cinematography and music direction. A good example of this would be Vijaya T Rajendhar, who is known as 'Ashtavadhani' in film circles. The word literally connotes a person who can handle eight different tasks with ease. RV Udhayakumar followed soon after and who can forget the lyrics in his blockbuster hit Ponnumani, which starred Karthik and Soundarya?
In recent times, we have been seeing Perarasu penning lyrics for the songs in his films. His songs became super-duper hits too. Remember 'Ennatha Solvenungo' from Sivakasi, which went on to become a super-hit song among the masses? The lyrics for the song were penned by none other than the director Perarasu himself.
More recently, we had Kasthooriraja penning the lyrics for a song in Idhu Kadhal Varum Paruvam and SA Chandrasekhar wrote a song for Nenjirukkum Varai. Now we have Hari writing the lyrics for a song in Thamirabarani and Ramki Ramakrishnan- the director of Solli Adippen penning the lyrics for songs in his film. Yuvan, like MusicMazaa reported earlier, is writing the lyrics for a song titled Natpukkulae for Chennai-600028.
However, these directors are not against working with other lyricists. Perarasu opines that he writes the lyrics himself because he has the exact idea of what the script and the situation demands and hence he resorts to writing the lyrics himself. He also says that he is not averse to working with other lyricists in future.
