K. V. Anand is an Indian cinematographer, film director and former photo journalist. After working for a short period as a journalist, he became a cinematographer in the early 1990s, working for about fifteen films in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. In 2005, Anand turned film director with the critically acclaimed Kana Kandaen (2005) and rose to fame with his second film, Ayan (2009). Anand won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for his debut film as a cinematographer, Thenmavin Kombath, in 1995.^[1]

Early life[link]

K. V. Anand was born in Chennai, India graduated with Bachelor's degree in Physics from D. G. Vaishnav, Chennai followed by Master's degree in Visual Communications from Loyola College, Chennai. Anand, during his college days participated in annual trekking expeditions in the Himalayas. His exploratory trips to various remote locations in India triggered his passion in photography. Anand participated in inter-collegiate, state and national level photography contests. His visual images earned him numerous photography awards.

Career[link]

Photo journalist (1988-1992)[link]

Anand worked as a freelance photo journalist for leading newspapers and magazines such as Kalki, India Today, Illustrated Weekly, Aside and other national publications. Within a short period of time, his photos were published in more than 200 magazine covers and had taken photos of 10 Chief Ministers in close quarters. Anand continued to freelance in industrial photography, advertisements and cover pages for fictional Tamil novels.

Anand applied for a full-time position as a photo journalist for India Today, a leading publication group in India, but failed to get the job offer. Anand, disappointed, left to Andaman Islands for a month. During this wilderness trip, Anand decided to transition from photo journalism to cinematography.

Cinematographer[link]

Anand met cinematographer P. C. Sreeram and expressed his interest to work for him as an assistant. He joined him, serving as an apprentice for Sreeram's film such as Gopura Vasalile, Amaran, Meera, Devar Magan and Thiruda Thiruda. Anand got his breakthrough when he was recommended by Sreeram to director Priyadarshan for Thenmavin Kombathu. Anand got the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for his work in his debut film. Anand's first Tamil film was Kadal Desam followed by his first Hindi film, Josh.

Anand has wielded the camera for 14 films in languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi for notable directors such as Priyadarshan, S. Shankar, Mansoor Khan and Rajkumar Santoshi. He has worked as a cinematographer for more than 100 commercials with leading advertisement agencies in India.

Film director[link]

He then turned a film director with Kana Kandaen. The film, penned by novelist duo Suba and starring Srikant, Gopika, Prithviraj, received favorable reviews from critics and was a moderate success. In 2009, Anand's second directorial venture, Ayan, starring Suriya, Prabhu Ganesan and Tamannaah,^[2] became a blockbuster success and the year's highest-grossing Tamil language film, having collected nearly Rs. 40 Crores worldwide.^[3] He was named the Best Director in Edison Awards 2010.^[4]

2011, his third directorial Ko, starring Jiiva, Ajmal Ameer and Karthika Nair released to very positive response from media and public. One of the critics neatly summarized it by saying "For an audience numbed by predictable Kollywood potboilers week after week, here is an original offering from KV Anand, a fearless filmmaker who doesn't insult your intelligence. He is able to cater to the needs of both the elite as well as mass audiences, which should be applauded." Anand is currently shooting his fourth directorial, Maatraan collaborating with Suriya again.

Filmography[link]

As cinematographer[link]

• Sivaji: The Boss (Tamil, 2007)
• Khakee (Hindi, 2004)
• Chellamae (Tamil, 2004)
• The Legend of Bhagat Singh (Hindi, 2002)
• Virumbugiren (Tamil, 2002)
• Nayak: The Real Hero (Hindi, 2001)
• Josh (Hindi, 2000)
• Mudhalvan (Tamil, 1999)
• Doli Saja Ke Rakhna (Hindi, 1998)
• Nerukku Ner (Tamil, 1997)
• Kadhal Desam (Tamil, 1996)
• Punya Bhoomi Naa Desam (Telugu, 1995)
• Minnaram (Malayalam, 1994)
• Thenmavin Kombath (Malayalam, 1994) (Won National Film Award for Best Cinematography)

As director[link]

Awards[link]

• 1995: National Film Award for Best Cinematography - Thenmavin Kombath
• 1997: Screen Awards South for Best Cinematography - Kadhal Desam
• 2001: Screen Awards nominated Best cinematography - Josh
• 2002: SICA Awards for Best cinematography - Legend of Bhagat Singh
• 2008: Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer - South - Sivaji

References[link]

External links[link]

• K. V. Anand at the Internet Movie Database

Interviews

• in TeluguCinema.com, 2009
• Interview in Rediff, 2005
• Interview in Chennai Online
• Interview in The Hindu, 2005
• Interview in Nilacharal
• Interview in TeluguCinema.com, 2007

Kortrijk

File:Kortrijk.png
Full name	Koninklijke Voetbalclub Kortrijk
Nickname(s)	De Kerels
Founded	1901
Ground	Guldensporenstadion, Kortrijk (Capacity: 9,399)
Chairman	Joseph Allijns
Manager	Hein Vanhaezebrouck
League	Belgian Pro League
2010-11	Belgian Pro League, 10th Group B Europa League Playoff, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Koninklijke Voetbalclub Kortrijk (often simply called Kortrijk or KVK) is a Belgian professional football club based in Kortrijk, West Flanders. They have been playing in the Belgian Pro League since the 2008-09 season, and they achieved their best ranking ever during the 2009-10 season, finishing 4th after the play-offs. Kortrijk was founded in 1971, though their roots can be traced to 1901. They are registered to the Royal Belgian Football Association with matricule number 19. The club colours are red and white. They play their home matches at the Guldensporenstadion, named after the Battle of the Golden Spurs which took place in Kortrijk in 1302.

Kortrijk enjoyed a first spell in the first division in the early 20th century, between 1906-07 and 1910-11. They eventually had to wait 65 years to return at the highest level, when they enjoyed 15 seasons at the top flight, interrupted by a season in the second division (between 1976-77 and 1978-79 and between 1980-81 and 1991-92). Kortrijk also played the 1998-99 season in the first division before they returned in 2008-09.

History[link]

In 1901 SC Courtraisien was founded. The club merged with FC Courtraisien in 1918. They received in 1951 the name Koninklijke Kortrijk Sport. They had the matricule n°19 like the oldest club SC Courtraisien. Stade Kortrijk was founded in 1923 with matricule n°161. Because Stade Kortrijk and Koninklijke Kortrijk Sport didn't play well anymore, they merged in 1971. They could play with matricule n°19 and the new name was KV Kortrijk.

Due to a bankruptcy, KV Kortrijk had to relegate in 2001 to the third division. From 2004 to 2008 KV Kortrijk played in the second division, however in the 2007-08 season they managed to get promoted to the first division. The club is also home to the majority of Swansea City A.F.C. fans from Belgium.

Honours[link]

• Belgian Cup:
  • Runners-up (1): 2011–12
• Belgian Second Division:
  • Winners (2): 1905–06, 2007–08
  • Runners-up (2): 1979–80, 1997–98
• Belgian Second Division Final Round:
  • Winners (3): 1976, 1980, 1998

Colours & badge[link]

KV Kortrijk's colours are generally red and white. The home kit is usually all red with a white trim, and red shorts. The away kit is similar, except in blue. The club's logo is a white shield, split into thirds by a red upside-down, V-like shape, and the letters "KVK" are split into each third, in a red font. On top of the shield is a crown.

Stadium[link]

KV Kortrijk play their home matches at the Guldensporen Stadion. It is located in Kortrijk, Belgium, and the current capacity of the ground is 9,399. In the summer of 2008, the grounds capacity was increased from 6,896 to 9,399, after Kortrijk's elevation into the Belgian First Division. Guldensporenstadion literally means "Stadium of the Golden Spurs". The stadium is named after this in reference to the Battle of the Golden Spurs which, in 1302, was fought in Kortrijk. The stadium has a traditional local stadium look about it, and is single-tiered all around the ground.

Current squad[link]

As of 25 July, 2011

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Kristof van Hout 2 DF David Vandenbroek (on loan from Zulte-Waregem) 3 DF Baptiste Martin 4 MF Ismaïla N'Diaye 5 DF Alassane També 6 DF David Wijns 7 FW Steven Joseph-Monrose 8 MF Nebojša Pavlović 9 FW Dalibor Veselinović (on loan from Anderlecht) 10 FW Ernest Nfor 11 DF Mustapha Oussalah

No. Position Player 12 MF Geoffrey Ghesquire 14 DF Landry Mulemo 15 FW Dieter Meulenyzer 16 GK Darren Keet 17 MF Gertjan De Mets 18 FW Pablo Chavarría (on loan from Anderlecht) 19 MF Brecht Dejaegere 20 MF Mohamed Messoudi 21 MF Brecht Capon 23 DF Ervin Zukanović 77 MF Péter Czvitkovics

Players out on loan[link]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 12 FW Ebrahim Savaneh (at RAEC Mons)

Famous former players[link]

Managers[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Fansite
• Kortrijk at UEFA.COM
• Kortrijk at EUFO.DE
• Kortrijk at Weltfussball.de
• Kortrijk at Playerhistory.com
• Kortrijk at Transfermarkt.de
• Kortrijk at Football Squads.co.uk
• Kortrijk at National Football Teams.com
• Kortrijk at Football-Lineups.com

Veerasingham Anandasangaree (Tamil: வீரசிங்கம் ஆனந்தசங்கரி) is a leading Sri Lankan Tamil politician, former Member of Parliament and leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front. He is commonly known as Sangaree.^[1] A vocal critic of violence committed by all sides, Sangaree is a supporter of federalism similar to that of India as a solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.^[2][3]

Early life[link]

Sangaree was born 15 June 1933 in Point Pedro in northern province of Ceylon. He was the son of Sangarapillai Veerasingham, the principal of Sri Somaskanda College Puttur, and Ratnamma from Thumpalai near Point Pedro. He grew up in Achchuveli. He had six brothers and two sisters. He was educated at Sri Somaskanda College Puttur, Christian College Atchuvely Achchuveli, Hartley College and Zahira College, Colombo. Between 1953 and 1959 he taught at Jaffna Hindu College, Poonakari M.M.V., Christ the King College Ja-Ela and Sri Kotalawelapura G.T.M.S. Ratmalana. He later studied at Colombo Law College. After graduation in 1967 he joined the legal profession, becoming an attorney at law.

Sangaree's elder brother Rajasangaree, chairman of Chavakachcheri Citizens’ Committee, was murdered by the pro-Indian Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front on 26 October 1987 after Rajasangaree complained about abuses being committed by the Indian Peace Keeping Force. Sangaree's younger brother Ganeshasangaree was murdered by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on 10 February 1988 after Ganeshasangaree criticised the Tigers in public. When two of Ganeshasangaree's sons complained about their father's killing they were taken away by the Tigers and never seen again. Yogasangaree, the son of Sangaree's brother Ganeshasangaree, was an EPRLF Member of Parliament. Yogasangaree, EPRLF leader K. Padmanaba and others were assassinated by the Tigers on 19 June 1990 in Kodambakkam, India. Sayanuja, the daughter of Sangaree's brother Parathasangaree, was killed on the Tavistock Square bus bombing on 7 July 2005

Political career[link]

Sangaree became interested in politics at an early age and in 1955 joined the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the leading leftist party in Ceylon at that time. He was the LSSP's candidate for Kotahena South Ward at the 1959 Colombo Municipal Council election against the incumbent mayor V. A. Sugathadasa but failed to get elected. He was persuaded to stand as the LSSP candidate in Kilinochchi at the March 1960 parliamentary election even though he had no connection to the area. He lost.^[4] He stood again at the July 1960 and 1965 parliamentary elections but was again defeated on each occasion.^[5][6]

The leftist parties of Ceylon, who had in the past argued for parity between the Sinhala and Tamil languages, abandoned their beliefs in the late 1960s. They allied themselves with the communal Sri Lanka Freedom Party, who had made Sinhala the sole official language of Ceylon, and opposed the reasonable use of Tamil proposed by the Dudley-Chelvanayakam Pact signed by the United National Party Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake. The leftist parties adopted the racist slogan "Dudleyge bade masala vadai" - translation "there is masala vadai in Dudley's belly" (masala vadai is a Tamil delicacy). Sangaree, like many other Tamil leftists, became disillusioned with the leftist parties. Sangaree left the LSSP in 1966.

Sangaree was chairman of Karaichi Village Council between 1965 and 1968. He joined the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) in May 1966. Karaichi Village Council was promoted town council in 1968. Sangaree was elected to Kilinochchi Town Council in 1968 and became its first chairman. Sangaree became the president of the ACTC's Yout Front in 1970. He stood as the ACTC candidate in Kilinochchi at the 1970 parliamentary election. He won the election and entered Parliament.^[7]

In 1972 the ACTC, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi and others formed the Tamil United Front (later renamed Tamil United Liberation Front). Sangaree was the TULF's candidate for Kilinochchi at the 1977 parliamentary election which he won.^[8] Sangaree and all other TULF MPs boycotted Parliament from the middle of 1983 for a number of reasons: they were under pressure from Sri Lankan Tamil militants not to stay in Parliament beyond their normal six-year term; the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka required them to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a separate state; and the Black July riots in which up to 3,000 Tamils were murdered by Sinhalese mobs. After three months of absence, Sangaree forfeited his seat in Parliament on 22 October 1983.^[9] His refusal to take the oath under the Sixth Amendment also barred him from practising as a lawyer.

Sangaree and his family, like many families of leading Tamil politicians, fled to Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu. After the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord in 1987 Sangaree returned to Sri Lanka. He was one of the TULF's candidates in Jaffna District at the 1989 parliamentary election but failed to get elected. He was elected senior vice president of the TULF in 1993. He was one of the TULF's candidates in Vanni District at the 1994 parliamentary election but again failed to get elected.

Sangaree was one the TULF's candidates for Jaffna District at the 2000 parliamentary election. He was elected and re-entered Parliament.^[10] In 2001 the TULF, ACTC, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front and Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization formed the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). Sangaree was one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District at the 2001 parliamentary election. He was re-elected.^[11] Sangaree was elected leader and president of the TULF in June 2002 following the death of M. Sivasithamparam.^[12]

Soon after its formation the TNA began to make a more pro-Tamil Tiger stance, recognising the Tigers as the sole representative of the Sri Lankan Tamils. This caused a split within the TULF. Some members of the TULF, led by its president Sangaree, were opposed to the Tigers. A long legal battle ensued for control of the TULF. Sangaree refused to allow the TNA to use the TULF name during the 2004 parliamentary election.^[13] This caused the members of TULF who wished to remain with the TNA, led by R. Sampanthan, to resurrect the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi political party. The TNA contested the 2004 parliamentary election under the ITAK symbol. The legal battle over the control of TULF meant that the TULF and Sangaree had to contest the 2004 parliamentary election as an independent group. The group failed to win any seats.

Sangaree eventually won full control of the TULF but most of its leading members had already left the party and it had lost most of its political support. Sangaree had been a vocal critic of the government sponsored paramilitary groups. Following the dismal showing of the rump TULF in elections, Sangaree abandoned his beliefs and joined forces with two paramilitary groups (People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam and Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (Padmanaba wing)) to form the Democratic Tamil National Alliance. This new alliance contested provincial and local elections but with little success though Sangaree was elected to Jaffna Municipal Council at the 2009 local elections.^[14] Sangaree did another volte-face in 2011, joining force with the TNA to contest the 2011 local elections.

UNESCO award[link]

Sangaree was awarded the 2006 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence.^[15][16] The UNESCO statement said "As an indefatigable advocate of democracy and peaceful conflict resolution, he has contributed to raising awareness of the Tamil cause in a spirit of dialogue, while seeking to promote non-violent solutions to Sri Lanka and opposing terrorism".^[17] Sangaree collected his $100,000 prize at a ceremony held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France on 16 November 2006.^[18]

References[link]

• Arumugam, S. (1997). Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon. pp. 7–8. http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dictionary_of_Biography_of_the_Tamils_of_Ceylon. 
• D. B. S. Jeyaraj (15 June 2008). "Last TULF Leader standing: Sangaree at 75". The Nation, Sri Lanka. http://www.nation.lk/2008/06/15/newsfe2.htm. 

External links[link]

• Veerasingham Anandasangaree

v t e ← Members of 7th Parliament of Ceylon (1970 (1970)-1972) → Speaker: Stanley Tillekeratne Prime Minister: Sirimavo Bandaranaike Leader of the Opposition: Junius Richard Jayewardene Veerasingham Anandasangaree Arunasalam Thangathurai Felix Dias Bandaranaike Sirimavo Bandaranaike S. J. V. Chelvanayakam Colvin R. de Silva Gamini Dissanayake Monty Gopallawa Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed T. B. Ilangaratne D. M. Jayaratne Junius Richard Jayewardene P.B.G. Kalugalla Sivasubramaniam Kathiravelupillai Pieter Keuneman Vasudeva Nanayakkara V. N. Navaratnam M. Joseph Michael Perera Ranasinghe Premadasa Mahinda Rajapaksa Dudley Senanayake Maithripala Senanayake Rukman Senanayake Kathiripillai Thurairatnam Stanley Tillekeratne Richard Udugama Ratnasiri Wickremanayake *This list is unfinished.

Harris Jayaraj
Background information
Birth name	Harris Jayaraj
Also known as	HJ, Harris
Born	(1975-01-08) January 8, 1975 (age 37) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Genres	Film Score
Occupations	Music composer, performer, record producer, music director, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, songwriter, lyricist
Instruments	Guitar, synthesizer, piano, percussion
Years active	2001–present

Harris Jayaraj (Tamil: ஹாரிஸ் ஜெயராஜ்; born 8 January 1975) is an Indian film composer. He has written scores and soundtracks for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.

Early life[link]

Harris Jayaraj hails from a pious Christian Nadar family from Tirunelveli and was born and brought up in Chennai.^[1] Harris studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School, K.K.Nagar. His father, S. M. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to Malayalam music director Shyam and later became a noted musician and film composer. At the age of six Harris began his formal training in carnatic music.^[2] His father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn classical guitar.^[3] Harris scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of Trinity College of Music, London.^[4] He has the privilege of being the first Indian to be the highest scorer in Asia.^[5]

He started his music career as a guitarist in 1987 at the age of twelve.^[6] After befitting as an ample guitar player, he started playing keyboard and developed interest over synthesizers. He then started programming with his Roland MC-500 and went on to work as a programmer and musician under more than twenty five music directors in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya, working in more than 600 projects till the year 2000.^[7] He worked under noted composers including Raj-Koti, A. R. Rahman, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidyasagar.^[8] While working as an additional programmer under Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including the famous Coca-Cola commercial featuring actor Vijay.^[9] In his early years, he admired music composers M. S. Viswanathan, percussionist Aruljothi Balagopal, A. R. Rahman and Hans Zimmer

Film scoring[link]

Harris ventured into film scoring with Gautham Menon's Minnale. The album was well received, particularly the song Vaseegara turned out as a sensational hit.^[10][11] He received the Filmfare award for Best Music Director in his very first movie, breaking the 9 years continuous record of A. R. Rahman. The following Tamil movie albums 12B and Majunu met with high acclaim and praise.^[12] His Minnale score was later used in the Hindi version, titled Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein also directed by Gautham Menon.^[13][14] He then worked in the movie Lesa Lesa directed by Priyadarshan.^[15] For the first time in India the title song of the movie Lesa Lesa was released as a single prior to the album release date.^[16] Harris made his debut in Tollywood with Vasu, which received lots of appreciation and gained him lots of fans in Andhra Pradesh as well. With his back to back successful albums Samurai, Saamy and Kovil Harris emerged as a music director of reckoning in Kollywood.^[17] He received Filmfare Best Music Director, Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director and ITFA Best Music Director Award for Kaakha Kaakha, starring Suriya and Jyothika.^[18] This film directed by Gautham Menon was a huge blockbuster and the songs met with great critical acclaim.^[19] Gautham Menon remade the movie as Gharshana in Telugu which had two new songs apart from the Tamil version to suit the taste of Telugu audience.^[20] The song Uyirin Uyire reused as Cheliya Cheliya in Telugu and Khwabon Khwabon in Hindi is considered as one of the biggest sensational hit of all time.

Following the success of Chellamae, Arasatchi, Arul and Thotti Jaya Harris worked on Ullam Ketkumae with director Jeeva with whom he had a very good rapport in 12B.^[21][22] The music of this movie was appreciated for its excellency and synergy with the atmosphere in and out of the movie.^[23] Director S. Shankar, one of the leading director of Tamil Cinema paired up with Harris in his magnum opus movie Anniyan. It was the first time Shankar did not team up with A. R. Rahman and the album turned out as a grand success.^[24][25] Veteran lyricist Vairamuthu praised the album for its excellency and wished Harris to go places after Anniyan.^[26] Shankar confessed that working with Harris was a great experience and Harris has given amazing songs to the movie.^[27][28] The soundtrack album received several awards including Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director and Filmfare Best Music Director Award.^[29][30][31] The next movie he scored was Ghajini directed by A. R. Murugadoss, for which he received Tamil Nadu State film award for best music direction and best song(Oru Maalai). The movie had scintillating, party-hopping numbers which resulted in a huge commercial success in audio sales, especially the track Sutum Vizhi crossed 2 crore downloads and turned out to be phenomenally successful.^{[32] [33]} Harris crafted a necessary classiness into the Gautham Menon's blockbuster crime movie Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu starring Kamal Haasan.^[34] Gautham after the movie release confessed that he and Harris use to imply lot of efforts in film scoring, on his part he shares the entire script with Harris and provides input's from his side and that's how they made the Manjal Veyil song quirky without the traditional pallavi-charanam format.^[35] Harris once again ventured into Tollywood with a successful album Sainikudu.^[36] The music album of this movie was released simultaneously in 10 chosen venues from five different countries.^[37]

Gautham considering the music and background score of Harris as a major asset of his films,^[38] once again teamed up with Harris on a romantic-thriller Pachaikili Muthucharam. The soundtracks of Pachaikili Muthucharam reputed to be melancholic, lilting, mysterious, and alternatively catchy once gain resulting in an as usual, great Gautham-Harris combination.^[39] The unique luster of Jeeva and Harris combo continued with Unnale Unnale.^[40][41] The music album oozing with energy all through proved to be a cut above the rest.^[42] With Munna Harris provided a sensational hit song Manasa which also fetched a Filmfare Best Singer Female award to Sadhana Sargam. With the following album Bheema, Harris continued his mettle with all the six songs. The track Siru Parvaiyalae used Pashto words in interludes. The album was praised for bringing up visual recapitulation from audio.^[43] Harris used a live orchestra of 84 members for the action cop film Sathyam.^[44][45]

Live in concert[link]

Harris performing live

In 2011, Harris announced a musical world tour titled "Harris On The Edge".^[46][47] He will be performing live all over the world accompanied by a troupe of Tamil playback singers, including Karthik, Haricharan, Chinmayi, Tippu, Harini, Naresh Iyer, Harish Raghavendra, Krish, Aalap Raju, Kay Kay, Benny Dayal, Andrea, Suvi Suresh, Sunitha Sarathy, Srilekha Parthasarathy and Shweta Menon and international musicians and dancers.^[48][49] The event will be coordinated by Techfront and is to be directed by A. L. Vijay.

Film score and soundtracks[link]

Notes:

• • indicates the remade or dubbed movie has additional or replaced songs composed by Harris.
• # indicates the soundtrack album has one or more bonus songs composed by a different composer.
• The movie Force has four songs composed by Harris. Film scoring is done by Sameer Phatarpekar with themes taken from the songs.

Personal life[link]

Harris is married to Suma, the couple have a son called Samuel Nicholas and a daughter called Karen Nikita. Harris prefers to work in his Trinity Studios which he has established in his own residence.

Awards and Nominations[link]

Filmfare Awards South

• 2001: Won – Best Music Director – Minnale
• 2003: Won – Best Music Director – Kaakha Kaakha
• 2005: Won – Best Music Director – Anniyan
• 2008: Won – Best Music Director – Vaaranam Aayiram
• 2009: Won – Best Music Director – Ayan
• 2001: Nominated – Best Music Director – 12B
• 2005: Nominated – Best Music Director – Ghajini
• 2009: Nominated – Best Music Director – Aadhavan
• 2010: Nominated – Best Music Director – Orange

International Tamil Film Awards

• 2003 – Best Music Director – Kaakha Kaakha
• 2008 – Best Music Director – Vaaranam Aayiram

Vijay Awards

• 2008: Won – Best Music Director – Vaaranam Aayiram
• 2008: Won – Favorite Song of the Year – "Ava Enna" from Vaaranam Aayiram
• 2009: Won – Best Music Director – Aadhavan
• 2009: Nominated – Favorite Song of the Year – "Hasili Fisili" from Aadhavan
• 2009: Nominated – Favorite Song of the Year – "Vizhi Moodi" from Ayan

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

• 2003 – Best Music Director – Kaakha Kaakha
• 2005 – Best Music Director –Anniyan & Ghajini

Mirchi Music Awards South

• 2009 – Best Album of the Year – Ayan
• 2009 – Mirchi Listeners' Choice Best Album – Ayan
• 2010 – Best Album of the Year – Orange
• 2010 – Mirchi Listeners' Choice Best Album – Orange
• 2010 – Mirchi Listeners' Choice Best Song – "Nenu Nuvvantu" from Orange

Edison Awards (India)

• 2009 – Best Music Director – Ayan
• 2011 – Best Music Director – Ko

Isaiaruvi Tamil Music Awards

• 2007 – Best Youthful Album – Unnale Unnale
• 2008 – Best Music Director – Vaaranam Aayiram
• 2008 – Romantic Song of the Year – "Anbe En Anbe" from Dhaam Dhoom
• 2009 – Best Music Director – Ayan

Big FM Awards

• 2010 – Best Music Director – Orange

South Scope Awards

• 2008 – Most Stylish Music Director – Vaaranam Aayiram
• 2009 – Best Music Director – Ayan

Special Honours

• Kalaimamani from the Government of Tamil Nadu

Gallery[link]

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  Harris Jayaraj Portfolio at his new lawn in Studio dated 2009

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  Harris at Rome

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  Harris at Vivaldi's house in Venzia

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  Harris with Javed Akhtar, Nishikanth Kamath and singers.

References[link]