after releasing singles like nothin matters seruvoma and mango lassi usbased independent artiste ramya raj is out with her new single bodhai neeye an intense love song with a dash of rap the young musician talks about how the song happened her music journey and why she wants to sing for anirudh excerpts tell us about your single bodhai neeyebodhai neeye is the craziest passion project ive ever done because it literally changed my life in more ways than one i wrote the song in february 2019 and the track just came together quite seamlessly its funny how this is a pretty intense love song but i am very much single smiles but jokes apart i knew i wanted the track to be a fun number with a dancehall vibe to get people jamming since my previous track seruvoma was a breakup rap song with a sombre vibe soon i laid down the tune and worked with a sound engineer to get the beat made recorded the vocals and bam the track was done after the song was born i knew i had to get a music video made because obviously it helps people engage and i personally love storytelling and acting so i shot a little video with a couple of my friends but the music label id contacted wanted me to fly down to chennai to shoot a music video for the song as they wanted to take a different stab at it visually since im from the us and had a job and was going to start my mba i had think about it but i convinced my parents about making a quick trip to chennai bought the tickets and had the opportunity to shoot a music video here in august 2019 the video was shot and edited but the team and i felt that though the visuals were stunning it really had no connection to the lyrics and the vibe of the song so we were in discussion on how to go about releasing the song and decided that reshooting would be the only option finally in june 2020 we came to the agreement that i could just reshoot the video here in the us i am so glad to have got my costar erik for the song as wellwhen did you begin your musical journeyever since i was little ive been singing and writing songs i used to bag the solos in school musicals and sang in a couple of bands in the summer when i was in high school i also took piano lessons and teaching myself the uke but i think i was eight years old when i found myself being intrigued to write and share my songs rather than singing what already existed whether that was in tamil or in english as a little kid i thought it was strange that music in india was all connected to the film industry and music didnt stand alone it was my goal for a