It was a big day for the Coimbatore crowd yesterday (December 23, 2011). The reason was the audio launch of Shankar’s upcoming film ‘Nanban.’ The audio was launched at the venue of Harris Jayaraj’s live concert – On The Edge, and the place was Hindustan College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore. Harris also is the music director of this youthful Shankar entertainer.

The entire team of ‘Nanban’ was in attendance for the audio launch all inclusive of the director, Shankar, the lead stars Vijay, Srikanth and Jiiva as well as the crew members. While Vijay and Jiiva were clad in semi-formals, Srikanth looked smart clad in a blue Superman T-shirt. Shankar was in his signature self. Veteran Sathyaraj who plays an important role in the film was also present for the audio launch.

According to reports from Coimbatore, nearly 19000 people were expected for the event and come they did! Along with the audio release the trailer of ‘Nanban’ was also released. The first disc was released by Prabhu. Vijay’s Docomo ad was also screened on the big screen. When Vijay took to the stage he was all in praise for his director Shankar. He also revealed that he had earlier missed a chance to act in the former’s film, ‘Mudhalvan’, but did not want to miss the chance second time around, that’s how ‘Nanban’ happened.

Ilayathalapathy also revealed that his co-stars Srikanth and Jiiva had become absolutely close to him. While Srikanth was a friend of Vijay even before ‘Nanban’, the actor revealed that he had also got really close to Jiiva during the shoot of ‘Nanban.’ ‘Srikanth has also done complete justice to the role Maddy did in ‘3 Idiots,’ said Vijay.

While Vijay spoke of Jiiva he said the latter was the prankster of the team, off camera. He used to crack hilarious jokes just before a serious scene was about to be shot and immediately got into the mood of his character. But it was Vijay who used to find it difficult to hold himself from laughing out loud.

RJ Shiva was the perfect host who carried the show forward. After Vijay spoke about the film, Shiva along with the crowd urged the actor to sing a song from the album. Following this demand from the crowd the actor sang ‘Edho Panale…’ and the crowd went crazy. Harris Jayaraj had earlier done the jingle for Vijay’s previous Coke ads, now the songs for ‘Nanban’ too have come out really well said the actor.

The crowd went ecstatic seeing the cast and crew of the film all in one place. And in all it was undoubtedly a grand audio launch for ‘Nanban!’

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