This story is from March 29, 2020

Chill Karo Naa, say this group of musicians

During this period of lockdown owing to COVID-19, artistes are doing various things to relieve the stress and beat quarantine blues.
Chill Karo Naa, say this group of musicians
During this period of lockdown owing to COVID-19, artistes are doing various things to relieve the stress and beat quarantine blues. While we just heard the parody version of Thillana Thillana as Corona Corona, these Chennai musicians have come up with an original song which goes as Chill Karo Naa.
Musicians Pranav Rajkumar, Mercy John, Shyam Renganathan and SubZero... all of them connected virtually and came up with this track in 48 hours.
Pranav, who composed and recorded the track, says, “Mercy had called us and came up with idea of doing a song around the virus. We didn’t want to do something clichéd. Also, we wanted something that can be heard even after 10 years. Instead of making the song all about Corona, we wanted to use the word as a pun. Shyam has written the lyrics. If you take the song Maro Maro from Boys, every word in the song will rhyme. We wanted to do something on the same lines and that’s when he came up with Chill Karo Naa, punning on the word Corona. It was then that decided we do the song in Hindi.”
He informs that this is a motivational song, “stressing on the importance of staying at home, communicating over the phone, and of course, chilling out. It is sure to releive you of the stress we are going through right now”.
Pranav says that he came up with the tune almost instantly. “We all got cracking immediately. Shyam wrote the lyrics, got a friend in KL to do the harmonies, got SubZero from Hyderabad to do the rap portions, and later, Shyam, Mercy and I recorded the song in my place. We also shot a video for the same,” says Pranav.
The musician says that he mixed and mastered the song in a day’s time. “We were supposed to launch before the Janta Curfew began last Sunday. But editing took time. By noon, we managed to upload the song,” he says.
The response has been positive, says Pranav. “There is a signature step in the song that has gone viral. I think the song has worked well and we are happy about the response we have received so far.”
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