''Love & Love Only'' is a 2015 Australian film directed, co-produced, written and edited by Indian-born Australian filmmaker
Julian Karikalan
Julian Karikalan is an Indian born Australian filmmaker, known for his feature film '' Love & Love Only'', which is the first English language film for which Ilaiyaraaja has composed original songs.
Early life and career
Karikalan was born in ...
starring Rohit Kalia and Georgia Nicholas in the lead roles.
A cross-cultural romantic film where an Indian falls in love with an Australian girl features background score and songs by India's composer
Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominately in Tamil cinema, Tamil in addition ...
. This is the first-ever English-language feature film for which he has composed original songs.
The film was launched for online audience on 22 November 2016 and is available on
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in countries that allow
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, while for the rest of the world, the movie is available on
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and
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.
In 2017, the film's screenplay was published as a book.
Synopsis
Krishna "Kris" is forcefully sent to Australia by his parents from India to learn business and life, but he struggles to adapt to Australian ways as he was always pampered by his mom. In Australia, he falls in love with Stacey, his co-worker, a school dropout from a broken family. Krishna's struggle with cultural differences create problems in their relationship.
Cast
Production
Development and casting
The film's title is based off of the book ''Love and Love Only'', which features in ''
Aniyathipraavu'' (1997). The Tamil remake of that film, ''
Kadhalukku Mariyadhai
''Kadhalukku Mariyadhai'' () is a 1997 Indian Tamil-language musical romantic drama film directed by Fazil. It is the Tamil remake of his own Malayalam film '' Aniyathipraavu'' (1997). The film stars Vijay and Shalini (reprising her role fro ...
'' (1997), also featured music by Ilaiyaraaja.
The film is about the love between a Punjabi man and an Australian woman.
The origin for the film came when the director
Julian Karikalan
Julian Karikalan is an Indian born Australian filmmaker, known for his feature film '' Love & Love Only'', which is the first English language film for which Ilaiyaraaja has composed original songs.
Early life and career
Karikalan was born in ...
was teased by a Turkish girl while working in IKEA, who said that she loved him as a joke. For this film, Karikalan considered the perspective of what if she was serious about her proposal and modified her character to be Australian. Karikalan also co-produced the film along with his wife. Rohit Kalia, who was Mr. India Australia in 2014, was selected to play the lead alongside Georgia Nicholas, who was chosen from a list of extras.
The rest of the cast is from theatre and made their film debut.
Karikalan's children also feature in the film in cameo roles.
Music
Contrary to regular industry practice, the composer of the film came aboard only after the whole film was edited and ready for a preliminary viewing. Once the film was complete, Julian Karikalan, who was a fan of
Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominately in Tamil cinema, Tamil in addition ...
, made a trip to India to meet him. Ilaiyaraaja consented to support the project.
Being an English film, the composer
Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominately in Tamil cinema, Tamil in addition ...
was keen in getting native western voices. After advertising online in Australia,
Rachael Leahcar
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, the South Australian singer was chosen to render her voice for the first ever song composed by Ilaiyaraaja for an English film. The background tracks were recorded in
Prasad Studios
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,
Chennai
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and the voice was recorded and mixed in Australia.
Ilaiyaraaja was initially set to composed only three songs while Brent Heber, who worked as the sound designer, was to compose the background music.
Ilaiyaraaja eventually composed 21 tracks for the film.
Filming
The film was shot in the Sydney metropolitan area and was additionally shot at the
University of Wollongong
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.
While filming at the Sydney Murugan Temple, the scenes were shot from outside as filming was prohibited inside.
Music
The music was composed by
Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominately in Tamil cinema, Tamil in addition ...
. The lyrics are written by Julian Karikalan and Denny Burgess.
Ramya NSK
Ramya NSK is an Indian playback singer, who has predominantly sung for Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. Apart from her work as a singer, she participated as a contestant in '' Bigg Boss 2''. She is the granddaughter of comedian N. S. Krishnan a ...
also features as a playback singer for the album.
Accolades
Notes
References
External links
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2015 films
Australian romantic comedy-drama films
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Films set in Australia
Films shot in Australia
2015 directorial debut films
2010s English-language films
English-language romantic comedy-drama films