GV Prakash on winning National Film Award for Soorarai Pottru’s background score: ‘An important day in my life’
For the background music of Sudha Kongara’s Soorarai Pottru, starring Suriya, GV Prakash Kumar has received his first National Award. The musician, whose albums include Polladhavan, Aadukalam, Theri, and Asuran, thanked Kongara, his father, and his singer wife Saindhavi on social media for their help.
He tweeted, “One day you will make it big…One day you will win…one day everything will happen the way you want…And after a long wait finally, the day arrives…Thank you universe, thank you all…Big thanks to my father Venkatesh and my entire family including Saindhavi, Bhavani, and Anvi for all that they have given me (sic).”
The composer-actor further wrote, “Big thanks team Soorarai Pottru..director Sudha Kongara, Suriya sir 2D, and Rajasekar Pandian for giving me the opportunity to perform. Special thanks to all my musicians and my team, engineer producer Jehovahson. An important day in my life (sic).”
On November 12, 2020, Soorarai Pottru, a film loosely based on Simplyfly Deccan founder GR Gopinath’s autobiography Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey, was made available on Amazon Prime Video. The movie also received recognition for Best Feature Film, Best Actor (Suriya), Best Screenplay (Sudha Kongara and Shalini Usha Nair), and Best Actress(Aparna Balamurali), among other accolades.
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