"Changing Seasons" is a music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 by Indian composer A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and philanthropist. Described as the world's most prominent and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and...

. The video was simultaneously released in Hindi and Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 on 18 January 2011. The song featured in the video has been composed by Rahman and performed by Rahman and Jali Fily Cissokho. The video, produced by Y. M. Movies and filmed by John Warner, features Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant in 1994...

 along with Rahman. The song was originally composed for Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 film Raavan

Raavan

Raavan is a 2010 Hindi film directed, written and produced by Mani Ratnam. It stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram in the lead roles while Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Priyamani feature in key supporting roles...

and its Tamil version Raavanan.

Song composition and information

Rahman reused the song "Jaare Udd Jaare" (Hindi) / "Naan Varuvene" (Tamil), which was composed for Raavan / Raavanan for the music video. Both the songs were featured in respective films but was not released in the soundtrack. However, the Tamil version was released in the Collectors' edition pack of the soundtrack. The song was originally composed and recorded by Rahman in his Mumbai studio within a few hours. The lyrics have been penned by Gulzar for the Hindi version, Vairamuthu

Vairamuthu

Vairamuthu Ramaswamy Thevar is an award-winning Tamil poet and lyricist.Debuting in the film Nizhalgal with the lyrics for the song "Ponmalai Pozhudhu", he has now about 5800 songs to his credit as of January 2009. His partnership with the composers Ilaiyaraaja, and later A. R...

 for the Tamil version and Veturi

Veturi

Veturi Sundararama Murthy , popularly known as Veturi, was a Telugu writer mostly popular for his film songs. His career in the Telugu film industry spanned more than four decades.-Early life:...

 for the Telugu Version.

Music video

A promotional teaser of the video was released on 3 January. Rahman posted the teaser on his Twitter

Twitter

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 page and commented that his first international music video will be released soon. The music video premiered on You Tube on 18 January 2011.
The video made use of several unused scenes and film images of Aishwarya Rai from Mani Ratnam

Mani Ratnam

Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...

's Raavan / Raavanan. The subject of the music video itself is inspired by the theme of the film. In a later interview, Rahman thanked Ratnam for allowing him to use the unused film images of Aishwarya Rai in the video.