Asal Songs

Asal The Power of Silence is a forthcoming Tamil feature film to be directed by Saran and produced by Prabhu Ganesan and Ramkumar Ganesan of Sivaji Productions. Ajith Kumar, Sameera Reddy, Bhavana, Prabhu Ganesan and Rajiv Krishna have been signed up to portray the film’s lead roles. The film is currently in its production stage and has been slated to be released in October 2009.

Ajith Kumar and Gautham Menon would come together, other technicians were added to the film. Menon’s usual apprentices, Harris Jayaraj was signed on as the music composer. Some doubted that Gautham’s farewell from the project was because of their recently publicized partnership break-up after Vaaranam Aayiram. Harris, too, later walked out of the project due to his busy schedule with other films.After approaching Yuvan Shankar Raja for the job, Bharadwajwas finally confirmed the music director, making Asal his fiftieth film as composer, who teams up with Saran again after their last film together being Vattaram in 2006. After Sivaji Productions considered directors including A. R. Murugadoss, Vishnuvardhan and A. L. Vijay for the film, they turned to Saran. As of April 2009, other confirmed film technicians have been revealed. Vivek Karunakaran, a fashion show worker in Paris, will design the costumes for Ajith Kumar and Sameera Reddy while Vairamuthu replaced Thamarai to write the film’s songs.

Prabhu Ganesan, also co-producer for the film under Sivaji Productions, cast himself to play an important role in the film. Whilst, Gautham Menon selected Sameera Reddy, who had portrayed the lead female role in his previous film, Vaaranam Aayiram to star opposite Ajith Kumar in the film. Sameera appears along Ajith Kumar for the first time, despite previously being entitled to appear opposite him in Citizen, which eventually went ahead without her.