The title track of Lesa Lesa was the first song in India to be released as a single prior to a film soundtrack album release (The first ever single to be released prior to an album was Anaida's "hotline"). He then worked in Lesa Lesa directed by Priyadarshan.
Most of the tunes from the Tamil version were retained in the Hindi version too, and only two fresh tunes were composed. He also composed for the Hindi remake of Minnale titled Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, also directed by Gautham Menon. The following soundtrack albums 12B and Majunu met with high acclaim and praise. He received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Tamil for his work in Minnale, breaking the 9 years continuous record of A. The album was well received, particularly the song Vaseegara was exceptionally popular. Harris debuted as a film composer with Gautham Menon's Minnale. In his early years, he admired music composers M. While working as an additional programmer under Rahman, he composed music for various television commercials including a Coca-Cola commercial featuring actor Vijay. Rahman, Sadhu Kokila, Mani Sharma, Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidyasagar. He worked under noted composers including Raj-Koti, A. He then started programming with his Roland MC-500 and went on to work as a programmer under more than twenty five music directors in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam, working in more than 600 projects till the year 2000. He started playing keyboard and developed interest over synthesizers. He started his music career as a guitarist in 1987 at age twelve. Harris scored the highest mark in Asia on his 4th grade exam of Trinity College of Music, London. His father wanted him to become a guitarist and made him learn classical guitar from Mr.A.Abdul Sattar. At age six, Harris began his formal training in carnatic music. Jayakumar, was a noted film guitarist and an assistant to Malayalam music director Shyam and later became a noted musician and film composer. He studied at Krishnaswamy Matric School. He was born into a middle class Tamil Christian family. And I guess if this criteria is met, these days it is a good album.Harris Jayaraj was brought up in Chennai. And can be enjoyed till the film gets out of the theaters. Anycase another 'have-heard-before' song by HJ. It was not sung in an all out manner which I guess a song like this demands. ''Rangola'' A techno, folk song to end the album. Atleast I haven't heard her often, so, good to listen to you, Anupama.! Haven't we missed her often since that big bang song of hers in Thiruda Thiruda. ''Rahathulla'' Another average song, but for Anupama's voice. !!repetitive rendition has that effect I guess. My two & hlf year old niece goes on and on repeating the first lines 'suttum vizhi sudarae, suttum vizhi sudare'. Nice rhythm, catchy lyrics and smooth singing makes it a relaxing listening. Sung well by Sriram Parthasarathy (hearing for the first time) and HJ's preferred classical diva, Bombay Jeyashree. HJ has picked a nice rhythmic tune for this melodic duel. ''Suttum Vizhi'' This seems the pick of the album. Vaali is the song writer as it is de riguer if you need Tanglish lyrics for more than a decade now. Easy going lyrics and an effortless rendition by Karthik makes it an ideal song to open the album. Has a 'have-heard-it-earlier' feel to it but by itself is a very peppy, addictive quality to it. The album starts with ''Oru Maalai'' a trademark HJ song. The early trailers point to a very neat film with Surya looking classy and his heroins gorgeous. If so, it is of course an interesting premise for a film and with diligent addition of our own dose of local sentiments and styling, it can be a good fun to watch. I read that this film is a take on the central theme of the hollywood film 'Memento' (Christopher Nolan). Ghajini, is the latest offering from Harris Jeyaraj for this film starring Surya, Asin, Nayanthara and directed by Murugadoss (also dir.