A new story regarding ar rahman's arrival to cinema music is find in Malayalam Magazine. A famous Poet named Baranikavu Shivakumar said in an interview that he did the lyrics for arrahman's first movie song. When he was working for a film called "PenPada",themusic director was R.K.Shekhar(rahman's father).Totally 4 song to compose. Hecomposed 3 song and take a break. That time 8 year old arrahman came and play some music bits in Harmonium. All are surprised and ask him to do the full song. Everyone like it and take that to movie.Its titled "Vellithen Kinnam Pol" and sung by Jayachandran. This song is super hit in Penpada.
