All lyrics are written by Vairamuthu except Thamizha Thamizha; all music is composed by A. R. Rahman. No. Title Artist(s) Length 1.

It is the soundtrack to the 1992 Tamil film of the same name, directed by Mani Ratnam, and starring Aravind Swamy and Madhoo.

The album features seven tracks in Tamil and Hindi, and six tracks in Malayalam, Telugu, Marathi and five tracks in the instrumental adaptation album.

Chinna Chinna Aasai was the first song Rahman had composed for the film.

The song Kadhal Rojave has two versions in both Tamil and Hindi; a solo and a duet in the former.

The Hindi version of the song was titled Roja Jaaneman has two versions - one by S.

P. Balasubrahmanyam and the other by Hariharan.

He initially approached advertisement jingle composer Mahesh Mahadevan, who refused since it required full-time commitment to the project.

Ratnam happened to listen to some ad jingles, composed by Rahman, in an awards function, where Rahman received the award for Best Jingle Composer.

Impressed with Rahmans works, Ratnam visited his studio and listened to a tune that Rahman had composed long back on the Kaveri River water dispute (later revealed to be Tamizha Tamizha from the soundtrack).

Ratnam signed him immediately for his next project, Roja, which was the first one in his terrorism trilogy.

Rahman, in spite of his reluctance to seriously take up work in films, accepted the offer since Ratnam had the reputation of a director with a good taste for music.

Rahman would later say: I wasnt sure myself why I accepted Roja.

I think it was the prospect of working with Mani that enticed me.

In an August 2016 interview with Filmfare, Rahman recalled that he chose not to pursue education at Berklee College of Music because he got to work on Roja.

Songs such as Rukkumani had a loud thumping feel and became ingrained in pop culture.

The score was performed at the Panchathan Record Inn in Chennai.

The song Thamizha Thamizha is a poem written by Subramanya Bharathi.

For the lyrics of song, Vairamuthu revealed that the song took two and half hours to write and he wrote 120 desires in the song but later shortened it into 16 and also revealed that he used the lines of a song which was originally composed for Doordarshan.

The song Kadhal Rojave is set in the Kapi raga.

I thought that in the first note of the piece that he had sent me was really brilliant, really outstanding piece.

So I went across to his studio and he played me some more, lots of things which he had done for jingles and a few other musical pieces he has done for somebody else.

They were quite amazing and I had no doubts that he would be right for my film.

I was looking at predominately my film at that point of time.

He was ready to break a lot of conventions that were there in terms of music at that point of time, in terms of recording at that point in time.

So I was very lucky to find someone who was willing to break away and do something different.

For the Hindi version of the soundtrack, Alka Yagnik and Kumar Sanu were offered to sing the songs, but both declined as they did not know about Rahman at that time.

The soundtrack was later released in Malayalam and Telugu in 1993 and in Hindi and Marathi in 1994 by Magnasound.

The instrumental special version featuring five songs was released in Tamil and Telugu by Lahari Music in 1993 and in Hindi by Magnasound in 1994.

Recalling the massive success of his first film, Rahman says, I was lucky to set a sound in the first film.

And I had the right people like Mani Ratnam guiding me to achieve it also and by the grace of god it set and the people know from the moment the song is heard that this is Rahmans.

Sujatha Mohan, Unni Menon and Minmini, who is only known as the singer of Chinna Chinna Aasai, probably her best known song in her entire career, 19 were noticed following their performances in Roja, 20 while noted ghazal singer Hariharan made his Tamil debut through this album.

Rahman even had musically untrained elderly women sing.A bengali song was made from song Chinna Chinna Aasai, Chotto ei grame choto ai aasha, from bengali film Ranga Bou 1999.

All lyrics are written by Vairamuthu except Thamizha Thamizha; all music is composed by A.

R. Rahman. No. Title Artist(s) Length 1.

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