44TH Chess Olympiad 2022 Anthem | FT. Hon Chief Minister MK Stalin | @ARRahman | Vignesh Shivan

Chennai decks up for the 44th Chess Olympiad on the 28th of July 2022. Let's celebrate the passion of the game and sing along with Vanakkam Chennai Chess #WelcomeAnthem

CREDITS
Conceptualization & Direction - Vignesh Shivan
Composed by A R Rahman
Lyrics - AR Rahman & Vignesh Shivan
Cinematography - Ratnavelu ISC
Choreography - Brindha
Creative Director - SRS Shabharesh
Edit - Praveen Antony (Offscreen Studios)
Art - Kiran
Production House - Rowdy Pictures | Wikki Flix
Executive Producer - Mayilvaganan
Line Producer - Gubendiran VK
Production Managers - G Muruga Bhoopathy, Manikandan

Costume -
Shruthi Agarwal (AR Rahman)
Anu Vardhan (CMOTamil Nadu)
Dinesh Manoharan (Dancers)

Makeup and Hair -
Nandini (AR Rahman)
Pinky Lohar (Aditi Shankar)
Lyric Effects - Venky
Colorist - Suresh Ravi (Mango Post)
Stills - Akash Balaji
Designs - Radheyan
Assistant Editor - Venkat
Art assistant - Bavi

DOP team -
Associate - CH Sai
Assistant - Aboorvan, Dwarakesh
Gaffer - Gunabalan

Assistant Directors -
Parvathi Sridharan,
Rakesh Prabakaran,
Vardini Shankarnaryn,
Balasubramani Marimuthu,
Manoranjan D Sami,
Aravind Asaithambi,
Deepak Dheeran,
Mariya Antony,

Shabharesh Team -
Sriram Kumar, Vasanth, Manikandan Sermakani, Jothi Pragasan, Chaitanya Krishna, Rahul David, Mansri

VFX - IGENE
Mentor - Dhanapal Padmanabhan
C.O.O - Mala Manyan
Director - Seetha Venkatesan
Business head - Satish Kumar U
Creative head - Kalaivanan S

Team -
Comp - supervisor - Nehruji M.G.

Compositors -
Sreeharan S, Ramesh S, Dinesh Babu E, Bala Subramani

Junior compositors -
S Yuvraj, S Sudharshan, A Palaniappan, Jithu Bright, R Tharun Kumar, D Navin, A Vishnu, U Nandhini, P Soma Sundar, K Jagdeep Lal, S Vishwanathan

SR Matte paint artist - Anbarasan Sannasi S

Paint team - Prasanna Kumar C

Roto Lead - M Karthick

Roto teams -
Aswin R, Deral Ranjith I, Abisheck S, Ram Kumar S, Harish M, Dinesh P, Yogesh M, Ajay M, Surendar L

Project coordinator - Siva Kumar R

Sr. System administrator - Ragava Perumal C
System administrator - Santhohsh Kumar N

Tech support Engineers -
Subash N
Karthick P
Ravichandran R
Kamal Raj T

Accounts executive -Deepa T

Office administrator - Soundararajan A

ACCEL MEDIA LTD
VFX supervisor - Raghavan
Comp head - Srimurugan

Retouch Artist -
Gowtham, Ganesh, Barath, Harish, Sai Krishnan
BMM - Arul Murugan
System Admin - Shanmugaraj
Admin: Nandakumar

Subtitles - Vikrem Vybav
B2H - Babu

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[pritirekhahuzuricreative]

I am an Assamese don't understand Tamil listening to genius sir A R Rahman since 1992 in my state Assam ti was difficult to get audio version of Tamil song fortunately now I get arr Tamil song the sweetest language on internet. His composition is always extraordinary and different.

[sajiashojaei]

Love from Afghanistan🇦🇫 to India🇮🇳
You are truly unique with all your movements, gestures, and with your outward and inner behavior
❤❤Love uuuu

[Hema_Sundaramoorthy]

யாதும் ஊரே, யாவரும் கேளிர்!
எங்கள் வீட்டிற்கு இனிதே வாரிர்!❤ goosebumps guaranteed..

[devikb]

"வருக வருக சென்னைக்கு வருக"என்று சொல்லாமல்... வருக வருக தமிழ்நாட்டுக்கு வருக... என்று சொல்வது இனிமையாகவும் பெருமையாகவும் உள்ளது... இசையும் பாடல் வரிகளும் எங்கள் தமிழ் பெருமையை உலகுக்கு உரைக்கும்..நன்றி ரகுமான் அண்ணா...

[nettrikan]

Rahman is being loved by all religions, people across the boundary... Proud to be born in this century to witness ARR . love from Germany

[ganeshpollachi]

Rahman - Proud of the world. Proud of India. Proud of Tamilnadu.

[AstroTv]

இசையும் பாடல் வரிகளும் எங்கள் தமிழ் பெருமையை உலகுக்கு உரைக்கும்..நன்றி ரகுமான் அண்ணா..

[ramganesh]

as a chess player, i really loved it and one of the reasons i became good at the game was ur music sir..i always played with ur music in earphones and a huge credit is given to you..thank you for making this!

[freddiemercurybulsara]

Love from Telugu states
ARR biggest stan here
Great to see ARR dancing here 👑

[Myworld-kmog]

All tamilans should be proud for you own this lagend man. Love from kerala

[piusbenroy]

ThalaivARR as usual, every song has the unique ARR style. Ungal isai ku nandri Thalaivaa 🙏🏾

[rtnandhusworld]

யாதும் ஊரே, யாவரும் கேளிர்!
எங்கள் வீட்டிற்கு இனிதே வாரிர்!
All the people, Welcome to Chennai! Fantastic lines. Great music.

[delnareji]

Western and traditional touch
So happy to see Rahman and M K Stalin together...
Love from Kerala ❤
One of the best CM of India

[dhatgirlmariam]

I am so excited that I'll get to be there, I didn't understand some Indian part of this song but I feel so welcome, I am so happy and excited to be there 🤩....see you soon Chennai 😍

[tamilinfos]

A R Rahman never fails to innovate. Simply superb...

[knowledgecan]

As usual, AR Rahman brings out emotion from inside with his Music and Voice. Great Music and visually. The power picks up, when TN CM and AR walks together. The video shows all the grandmaster in style.

[jojobishal]

A.R.Rahman Sir, it's beautiful...Thank you everyone, who has been a part in making this....

[aompt]

Three Highlights
Drone view of Napier bridge
The walk of duo- ARR & CM of TN
Pragyananda on screen is the future pride of Chess from TN to the World
🔥🔥🔥🔥💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

[pravinkumarchennaiindia]

Welcome to Chennai Tamilnadu India goosebumps ....loved it...

[SureshReddy-vuvf]

This man AR Rahman is simply awesome!!!❤️❤️❤️