A. R. Rahman and Jonita Gandhi – Aabhi Jaa

Academy Award winner A. R. Rahman releases an eye-candy music video for his new song Aabhi Jaa featuring the voice of Jonita Gandhi, who made her debut with the title song in Chennai Express, the main single from A. R. Rahman’s upcoming album titled Raunaq: Conversation of Music and Poetry.

The album is influenced by a book of paintings by Raja Ravi Varma, as well as seven to eight poems by Kapil Sibal, which serve as lyrics of these songs.

The music video is shot in 4K Ultra High Definition for the very first time in India.

Creative Director: A.R. Rahman
Director/ Editor: Amith Krishnan
Director of Photography: Vijay Kartik Kannan
Executive Producer: Sharada Trilok, Karan Grover
Art Director: Santhanam
Costume Designer: Eka Lakhani
Stunt Director: Dilip Subbarayan
Choreography: Dr. Swarnamalya Ganesh
Make Up: R. Sundara Moorthy, Lovleen (Yami Gautam)
VFX Supervisor: G.M. Karthikeyan
VFX Supervisor: Raja – RA STUDIOS, Chennai (Library scene)

Direction team: Aaditya Seshadri, Rathna Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Maria Niranjana, Suresh
Cinematography Team: Madhesh Manickam (Lighting supervisor), Sampath Kumar, Vignesh Rajagopalan, Arun Kumar, Vivek Prasanna

Musicians:
Flute- Naveen Kumar, Kiran Kumar
Guitar – Keba Jeremiah
The Chennai Strings Orchestra Conducted By V. J. Srinivasamurthy
Backing Vocal – Maria Roe Vincent
Sound Engineers – Suresh Permal, TR Krishna Chetan, Hentry Kuruvilla, Srinidhi Venkatesh, Jerry Vincent, Santosh Dayanidhi, Tony Joy, Ishaan Chhabra, Vinay S Hariharan
Mixed and Mastered by R Nitish Kumar
Music supervisor – Srinivas
Musicians Co-ordination – Vijay Iyer
Musicians Fixer – R. Samidurai

Line producer — Chinnadurai:
Model Co-ordinator — Rukumani
On set Costume designer – Khushbu Doshi
Costume assistant – Sujata Ranjain
Colorist / Online artist — Vyshakh.G – RGB Studio, Chennai
VFX Producer – G.Ritesh Parakh
Making Video Team
Abishek Chandrasekar (Videography)
Prabanchan (Photography)

Storyboard Artist: M.Dinesh

Cast: A.R. Rahman, Yami Gautam, Muzammil Ibrahim

Ensemble Cast: Aarabhi, Ayshickka, Bhavana, Jaya sudha, Kavitha, Mehandi, Priyanka, Shritha, Swetha Sridhar, Twinkle, Vidya Gopakumar, Vibha Natarajan

Dancers: Subhalakshmi, Meenakshi, Anjali Ramesh, Ankita Ramesh, Meera

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