Gopi Sunder on board Chennai Express

Chennai Express has now one more Kerala connect besides the buzz it generated for its filming in Munnar and Alleppey. Mollywood composer Gopi Sunder is now on board Shah Rukh Khan’s big-budget film; not as composer, but as a singer!
So how did the composer clinch the deal to debut as a singer in B-Town? “I have worked with composer duo Vishal-Shekhar as programmer in their Bollywood projects including Om Shanti Om, Bluffmaster, Zinda, Home Delivery and Taxi 9211.They usually record at my Chennai studio and often compliment me for the dynamic speed in which our work is completed. Little did I know that associating with them in Chennai Express — again, as programmer — would land me the big ticket to Bollywood; that too, as a singer,” Gopi says.
“I had programmed two tracks during our tea break when Shekhar told me to ‘chumma’ sing one of the songs — a melody — for fun sake. Call it sheer luck, the production team of the film approved my voice. Soon enough, I was informed that none other than Shah Rukh Khan liked my voice, and that he insisted that the same voice be retained,” Gopi says. The song, Thithli, is a duet Gopi has sung with one of Kollywood’s popular singers, Chinmayi.