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Music documentaries, in-depth profiles and concerts featuring some of the biggest names

Music documentaries, in-depth profile pieces and concerts recordings featuring some of the biggest names from South Asia and the UK.

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Asian Network Presents: Anirudh Takeover of Asian Network Presents

#ANLive2017 Anirudh Ravichander

20/08/2017

Anirudh Takeover of Asian Network Presents

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The man behind Why This Kolaveri Di takes over Asian Network for an hour of music.

Singer and composer of South Indian music, including Why This Kolaveri Di, Anirudh becomes presenter for an hour to play his favourite music and talk about his life and work.

Anirudh Ravichander, the man behind Why This Kolaveri Di, leading singer and composer of South Indian music becomes presenter for an hour to play us his favourite music and talk about his life and work.

Anirudh shot to fame as the composer of Why This Kolaveri Di which became an instant online hit, however by this time he had already spent a long time doing film scores in the South Indian film industry. 

In this one hour programme he talks about that track, performing for AR Rahman and composing music for Vishal Dadlani as well as talking about the music he listened to and the music that has inspired him along the way.

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