The song was remixed by Vijay Antony in 2008 film Pandhayam. It has featured in translated versions in several Indian movies, in both Tamil- notably the Sivaji Ganesan movie Thanga Padhakkam – and Hindi- it was sung by Asha Bhosle in Parmatma. Tamil students took it to other universities around India.Ī Goan, Konkani version was also made, and many people in India mistakenly believed this was the original. This became popular around secondary schools and colleges in Chennai.
Ilayaraja then made a Tamil version – which had very little to do with the Sinhala version except for the refrain – for the Tamil film Avar Enakke Sontham, sung by Malaysia Vasudevan and Renuka. Manoharan did a bilingual Sinhala /Tamil rendition of the song which became quite popular in Tamil Nadu, mainly due to Radio Ceylon. The song has been dubbed in many languages. The Tamil version was written and sung by A E Manoharan. Sontham is a Telugu album released in 2002.There are a total of 8 songs in Sontham.The songs were composed by Devi Sri Prasad, a talented musician.Listen to all of Sontham online on JioSaavn. "Surangani" was originally a Sinhalese Baila song. JSTOR ( January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. It might be a funny scene, movie quote, animation, meme or a mashup of multiple sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. You can take any video, trim the best part, combine with other videos, add soundtrack. This article needs additional citations for verification.