On the grounds of Chennai’s Vivekananda College, three aspiring musicians — who would later go on to become leading names in the music industry— would often indulge in a game of cricket.
P Unnikrishnan, Palghat R Ramprasad and Sikkil Gurucharan are from different batches of the college, but the one thing that united them other than love for songs was cricket.
It is no wonder then that, several years later, the three have teamed up for a song on the sport they dearly love. With ‘Cricket Endraal Bharatham’ (and the Hindi version ‘Cricket Hi Tho Bharath Hai’), the trio fuses Carnatic music and the hype around World Cup Cricket 2023 that kickstarts on October 5. The recently-released song has Tamil lyrics by Muthumani and music by Raghuram and Ramprasad.
