Karthik Netha is in a cheerful place now
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Karthik Netha has began his life and profession afresh. The lyricist is basking within the reception of his newest music ‘Yaarum Kaanadha’ for Battle Membership, starring Uriyadi fame actor Vijay Kumar, that releases on December 15. The music, set to tune by Govind Vasantha, is written to the backdrop of teenage love in North Chennai. It has the craving and power of younger love, and mixed with Govind Vasantha’s strains of the violin, makes for a heady and addictive pay attention.
There’s something completely different in the way in which Karthik writes nowadays, and he agrees. “The way in which I take a look at life has modified utterly; I used to strategy it with hatred. It has all dissipated now,” says the 42-year-old. Karthik struggled with alcohol dependancy for years, and says he has been sober for 4 years now. “It took me 20 years to get right here,” he says, including that he began ingesting from his teen years. Dependancy got here in the way in which of him getting work. “I’ve misplaced a number of large movies. I might be unreachable on cellphone and would take off with out discover,” he recollects.
All it takes is 15 minutes for him to reach at a music’s first sketch.
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VELANKANNI RAJ B
However step by step, he took management of his life. “Gnaneswaran, a fellow inmate at a rehabilitation centre in Mumbai, launched me to the varsity of considered thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti,” he says, including that he took refuge within the phrases of individuals reminiscent of Ramana Maharishi and Thayumanavar. “The extra I learn their works, I realised the issue lay in me,” he says. Studying healed him, and Karthik discovered that this mirrored in his songs too.
Folks within the business bought information of his return and extra work got here his means. “Over these 4 years of sobriety, I’ve written 150 songs to completely different conditions,” he says. “Someplace in between, I had misplaced my means. However I’m again.”
Karthik says he can write anyplace, anytime. All it takes is 15 minutes for him to reach at a music’s first sketch. “I take heed to the tune a couple of instances, and join with some portion of it, after which a phrase involves thoughts. I construct on it as phrases pour. I don’t know the place they arrive from, however I receives a commission for it,” he laughs. He can write on his cell phone as effectively. “That is nothing in comparison with how Bharathiyar and Bharathidasan wrote at a time there was a struggle happening within the nation,” he remarks. “I can write so long as the thoughts is tranquil.”
Karthik has written songs for a number of upcoming movies, together with the women-centric Kannagi starring Keerthi Pandian and Saba Nayagan that has Ashok Selvan within the lead. Each these movies are scheduled to hit screens on December 15. “The three songs I wrote for Kannagi are near my coronary heart. They modified the way in which I take a look at girls and helped me realise I too had a maternal intuition.”
The lyricist enjoys working with composer Govind Vasantha. “His music comes from a deep place. I’m able to join with the soul of his tunes, and write accordingly,” he says. Karthik is at his busiest at current and is writing each day. “Life is extra significant now,” he says. “I stand as a musical be aware, ready to show right into a tune for another person.”