Chennai: Tamil actor Atharvaa starring Kanithan music launch has been held among few biggies. Director Murugadoss praised and compared Atharvaa with Ajith and Vijay.

Atharvaa latest movie Kanithan is ready for release. This movie’s musical album was released recently. Ace director A.R.Murugadosss and musician A. R .Rahman were the chief guests for the function. Kanithan’s director Santhosh, hero Atharvaa, heroine Catherine, music director Drums Shivamani, producer Dhanu, lyricist MadanKargy and many others attended the function.

While talking in the function, the producer Dhanu praised the director Santhosh’s  talent. Santhosh has worked under Murugadas as his assistant director. He also praised A.R Rahman’s broad-mindedness in ensuring the growth of new music directors. He said that Rahman has restricted himself to accepting only one Tamil movie per year to ensure other new music directors. Shivamani is Rahman’s close associate and friend.

Murugadoss praised Dhanu for giving a chance to aspiring directors to showcase their talents. He also praised Dhanu for the strong support he lent to release movies like Thuppakki and Kathi. Murugadoss also said that the late actor Murali was keen on giving a chance to new directors and encouraging them. He continued saying that among the present generation actors Vijay and Ajith do it and Murali’s son Atharvaa has also started following the trend set by his late father. Like father,like son.