Mohan Rajan is an Indian lyricist working on

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films.

Career

Hailing from Valayapatti near

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, Mohan Rajan arrived in Chennai in 2001, hoping to become a lyricist in the Tamil film industry. However, he failed to get a breakthrough and instead qualified himself by pursuing master's degree in Tamil literature and later media arts at

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. Mohan Rajan was launched as a lyricist by James Vasanthan during the making of '' Yathumaagi'' (2010). Soon after the release of the song, he became acquainted with Vasanthan's friend, the film-maker Sasikumar, who began to regularly hand lyric-writing assignments to Mohan for his projects. Notably, he wrote the song "Jilla Vittu" from '' Easan'' (2010) and then "Kondaadum Manasu" from '' Sundarapandian'' (2012) for Sasikumar's projects. Mohan studied in PSBB school, Chennai Mohan Rajan's breakthrough song was "Kanave Kanave", a pathos song featured in

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's anthology film ''

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'' (2013), featuring Vikram and

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. The song was composed and sung by

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. Since his breakthrough, he has worked on albums including

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's ''

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'' (2016), the composer's thousandth album, which

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chose him for after being impressed with his work in '' Chandi Veeran'' (2015). He later wrote popular songs such as "Yaanji Yaanji" in ''

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'' (2017), as well as songs in ''

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'' (2017) and '' Padaiveeran'' (2018).

As lyricist

Films

Web Series

References

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