National award winning music composer on a roll

National award winning music director Bijibal, who is celebrating the success of his composition 'Manikya Chirakulla' in the recently released Malayalam film 'Idukki Gold', said it was not difficult working on the tune.
"Didn't take much time for the tune," said Bijibal, who bagged the national honour for the best background score in the 2012 movie 'Kaliyachan'.
Bijibal has also done the background score for 'Idukki Gold' directed by Aashiq Abu which is about a trip down memory lane for five friends in their 50s.
They had to create a special feel for 'Manikya Chirakulla' which features the five characters in their younger days.

"What is special about these guys is that they used to listen to different genres of music, particularly English. Music of Abba, Boney M and iconic Bob Marley were quite popular those days, and even now the younger generation enjoy their songs. So some elements of the music of those times were used in the background score and song," Bijibal told PTI.
He composed two tunes and Aashiq Abu selected the most interesting one.

The song was rendered by parallel music exponent Joby Kurien.
The five actors playing the senior characters in the movie are Pratap Pothen, Raveendran (a popular actor in Malayalam and Tamil movies in the late 1970s and 80s), Maniyanpillai Raju, Vijayaraghavan and Babu Antony.

The 40-year-old's compositions in movies like the Mammooty starrer 'Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus', 'Artist', 'Da Thadiya', 'Issac Newton S/O Philipose' and 'Red Wine,' starring Mohanlal, has sent his career graph soaring.