5 film directors turn lyricists for John Jani Janardhan

The soon-to-be released music album of director

Gurudeshpande

's upcoming Kannada film,

John Jani Janardhan

, has an interesting feature. All the five songs that feature on the album are written by film directors.
The lyrics for the title track, John Jani Janardhan, has been written by Chethan Kumar (director of

Bahadur

); a song about girls featuring Aindrita Ray ' Preethiya Parivala Harihoythu Geleya ' has been written by Santhu (director of

Alemari

); the peppy rap number

Kaliyo Kannada Kaliyo

has been co-written by Chandan Shetty and the film's director, Gurudeshpande; the song

Roominge Ondhu Kagada Bandiede

has been written by AP Arjun (whose most recent directorials include

Rhaatee

and Mr Airavata); and the song Onde Thayi Makkalu is by noted lyricist

K Kalyan

, who is directing a film called Watchman.
'This was not planned at all; it is just a happy coincidence that all our songs have been penned by film directors. The film is a youth-centric one and I wanted youngsters to write lyrics for the same. We initially got in touch with Chetan and Arjun to write two of the songs. The rest of the collaborations just fell into place over time,' says Gurudeshpande. The team plans to host an elaborate audio launch by the end of August. The films stars Ajai Rao, Yogi and Krishna in the three main lead roles.