Chennai: Devi Prasad has composed the music for the solo album ‘O Pannene’ which has been released in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi languages. It is directed and sung by him. Kamal Haasan released its Tamil album at a function in Chennai yesterday. At that time he said: Once upon a time solo music was famous here, the solo songs of DS Sivapakyam, Sirkazhi Govindarajan and others were more famous than cinema songs. After cinema came, it swallowed music. Even Ilayaraja had to confine his music within the cinematic narrative. Music is within the square of cinema. But that is not the case in America.
There independent musicians are more famous than movie stars and the rich fly private. Similar situations should occur here. Music should grow as a separate sector. That is why I sent my daughter Shruti Haasan to learn cinema in India and music in America. I took that decision because music will grow bigger than cinema in future. If musicians are allowed to fly freely, new ideas will develop and new music will be created. Thus he spoke.