like many artistes who were hit by the pandemic restrictions thakara band too didnt entertain audiences much in the past two years the malayali songmakers who are known for their signature lyric and rendition styles were however not idling their time awayinspired by the many new situations thrown at us from 2020 ranging from covid19 and workfromhome to the migration exodus the musicians have put together many songs the first of which they released recently the song named pavanai pattu is about the virus that brought the world to a standstill and the many truths we experienced from there on it was done in collaboration with musician cisko disco there are more to come and they too will be released soon reveals the band consisting of vocalist james thakara guitarist akash bassist leslie rodrigues synthesist ashwin drummer nakheeb and lyricistcreative director abru manojjames tells us we released pavanai pattu on march 24 as thats the date on which the lockdown started changing our lives forever i remember we had about four gigs confirmed for april alone but everything went for a toss after that phase our first gig was in december 2021 but we made around eight songs in that period on their 10th anniversary in february earlier this year they had released a song called the backbencher returns in collaboration with musician v3k pavanai pattu is the first in what we call our threesong campaign called lockdown series the next which should release in a months time is called sundried humans it deals with the migrant exodus crisis which our country had faced in 2020 the third song kasavu thudal is about workfromhome and how it has changed the lives of professionals for the worse explains james one of their songs was also featured in the film orutheelyricist abru manoj says that thakara has given a lighthearted treatment to pavanai pattu by wrapping it in sarcasm and their unique musical flavours as for the name of the song every malayali knows who pavanai is and how this evergreen character of a killer from the film nadodikaattu gets murdered in the most humorous fashion despite having many weapons in his arsenal when the pandemic struck even the worlds super powers with atom bomb and more could do nothing just like pavanai he sayssundried humans will be thakaras first english song and maayum munpe which also should be out in a few months would be their first hinditamil song