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Duet 
Official DVD CoverDirected by K. Balachander Produced by Rajam Balachander
Pushpa KandaswamyWritten by K. Balachander Starring Prabhu
Meenakshi Seshadri
Prakash Raj
Ramesh AravindMusic by A. R. Rahman Cinematography Raghunatha Reddy Editing by Amirjaan Studio Kavithalayaa Productions Distributed by Ayngaran International Release date(s) 1994 Running time 205 minutes Country India Language Tamil Duet (Tamil: டூயட்) is a 1994 Tamil musical film directed by K. Balachander, starring Prabhu, Meenakshi Seshadri, Ramesh Aravind and Prakashraj. The film's score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman. Duet's score is centred around the saxophone.
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Plot
The movie is based on the French play "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand.
The plot is triangular love story about a new generation of musicians who are also brothers (Prabhu Ganesan, Ramesh Aravind). One is an eminent saxophonist and the other is an accomplished singer. Incidentally, both of them fall for a single female (Meenakshi Sheshadri) who's an avid music lover and a choreographer by profession. While she struggles the lust of her director (Prakash Raj), she also get strangled in the siblings affairs and find it very hard to choose her beau. How the story unfolds and who will win over her forms the rest of the plot in the story.
She loves the person who plays the saxophone and mistakes Ramesh to be the one. However, Ramesh comes to know of Meenakshi's love for Prabhu and gets them united in the end.
Cast
- Prabhu as Guna
- Meenakshi Sheshadri as Anjali
- Ramesh Aravind as Siva
- Prakash Raj
- Charlie
- Senthil
- Sarath Babu
Soundtrack
Duet 
Soundtrack album by A. R. Rahman Released 1994 Recorded Panchathan Record Inn Genre Soundtrack Producer A.R. Rahman A. R. Rahman chronology Super Police
(1994)Duet
(1994)May Madham
(1994)Score
The lyrical voyage of the film has been enhanced by the fine background score in the film, composed by A. R. Rahman. It got excellent reviews and is regarded as a master work in its class.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman and lyrics written by Vairamuthu. The soundtrack proved popular upon release. All songs were based on classical music from Western culture. Rahman got several accolades for his work. "Anjali Anjali" proved to be one of the most popular songs in the nineties. The soundtrack features 7 songs, 2 recitals and 3 instrumental pieces. Duet songs are considered some of Rahman's greatest hits in the 90's. The saxophonic instrumentation was done by Kadri Gopalnath and Raju. Gopalnath who is now an icon in Indian instrumental music got to public fame only after this album. He once told about this album, "I played some 30 ragas for Rahman. He wasn't satisfied. Finally I played Kalyana Vasantam, and he said, "Thats it!"".
The film and soundtrack were adapted to Hindi (as Tu Hi Mera Dil) and Telugu (with the same title).
# Song Artist(s) 1 "Anjali Anjali" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra 2 "Vennilavin Theril Yeri" K. J. Yesudas 3 "Mettuppodu Mettuppodu" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela 4 "Kathirikka Kathirikka" Sujatha , Prasanna 5 "En Kadhalae" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam 6 "Kulicha Kuthaalam" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, T. K. Kala 7 "En Kadhalae" K. S. Chithra 8 "Naan Paadum Sandham" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam 9 "Kavithaikku Porul Thandha" Prabhu , Sreeja 10 "Saththathinaal Vantha" Prabhu 11 "Love is Torture" Instrumental 12 "Sax Lullaby" Instrumental 13 "Title Theme" Instrumental Trivia
- On director Priyadarshan's request A. R. Rahman remade the song "Anjali Anjali" in the bollywood film Kabhi Na Kabhi starring Pooja Bhatt and Anil Kapoor. Original song in Tamil was sung by S. P. Balasubramaniam and the Hindi version by Kumar Sanu.
- The film introduced Kadri Gopalnath into Commercial movies and the film's theme music was fully composed using saxophone.
- This is the first film of actor Prakashraj. In remembrance, he named his production house Duet Movies.
- This is a film in which Meenakshi Seshadri, a Tamilian who acted in Bollywood, starred in a Tamil movie after a long gap and the film has a tag line which goes "My fair lady".
- Actress Saritha dubbed for Meenakshi Seshadri.
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