the basic scale of "kharaharapriya" has been used in several film songs in indian film music. although rarely authentic, there are several film songs that are set in this scale, or scales derived from this ragam. a popular tamil film composer m.s.viswanathan used this raga brilliantly in many of his songs such as "maharajan ullagai" from karnan, "maadhavi ponmayilal" in the movie iru malargal. ace singer p. unnikrishnan released his 2012 album on lord ayyappan titled "shabaimalai va charanam solli va" in which he has rendered a song in kharaharapriya raagam set in classical melody. the song also illustrates how the lord learnt the kalari fight in cheerappanchira which houses a temple called mukkal vattam managed by lord's guruvamsam even now.