Raavanan (soundtrack)

Raavanan
Soundtrack album by A.R.Rahman
Released	May 5, 2010
Recorded	Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios, Chennai
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	29:36
Label	Sony Music
Producer	A.R. Rahman
A.R.Rahman chronology
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya (2010) Raavanan (2010) Puli (2010)

Raavanan is the soundtrack album to the 2010 Indian Tamil film of the same name, written and directed by Mani Ratnam. It was released on May 5, 2010^[1] by Sony Music.^[2] The music and background score were composed by Academy Award winning composer A. R. Rahman with lyrics penned Vairamuthu and Mani Ratnam. The same soundtrack was used for the Hindi version of the film, titled Raavan, which was launched on April 24. It was also dubbed and used in the Telugu version of the film, titled Villain. "Raavanan" was Rahman's second collaboration with actor Vikram after Pudhiya Mannargal (1994).

The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by A. R. Rahman and lyrics penned by Vairamuthu, except for the song "Veera", which was penned by Mani Ratnam himself. Five additional songs, which were featured in the movie was released as a collectors's edition special pack on 18 November 2010.^[3][4] One of these tracks Naan Varuvaen was later released as a music video titled Changing Seasons. A. R. Rahman himself wrote the lyrics for this track and made an impromptu performance during the audio launch. The choreography of the songs were done by Ganesh Acharya, Brinda, Shobhana and Astad Deboo. The soundtrack is especially noted for the use of rich instruments, Indian as well as Middle Eastern. Several new singers were introduced through this film.

The lyrics for Villain was penned by late Veturi Sundararama Murthy and for Raavan by Gulzar. The albums were released by Sony Music^[2][5] and T-Series^[6] respectively.

Tamil version

Track list

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Veera"	Mani Ratnam	Vijay Prakash, Mustafa Kutoane, Keerthi Sagathia, A. R. Rahman	03:15
2.	"Usure Pogudhey"	Vairamuthu	Karthik, Mohammad Irfan Ali	06:04
3.	"Kodu Poatta"	Vairamuthu	Benny Dayal	04:58
4.	"Kaattu Sirukki"	Vairamuthu	Shankar Mahadevan, Anuradha Sriram	05:54
5.	"Kalvare"	Vairamuthu	Shreya Ghoshal, Dr. Narayanan, Naresh Iyer, M. Kuldeep, Shweta Mohan, Gopika Poornima, Subhiksha, Srimathumitha	04:11
6.	"Keda Kari"	Vairamuthu	Benny Dayal, Bhagyaraj, A. R. Reihana, Tanvi Shah, Suzanne D'Mello, Sujatha Majumdar, Nikitha Nigam, Dilshad Shaikh, R. N. Iyer, Arun Ingle, Chintamani Sohoni, Gowtham Bharadwaj	05:11

Collector's edition

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
7.	"Naan Varuvaen"	Vairamuthu	A. R. Rahman, Jali Fily Cissokho	04:59
8.	"Lament of The Leaves"	Vairamuthu	Bruno Conn	02:45
9.	"Restless Mystic" (Instrumental)	Vairamuthu	Seenu	01:19
10.	"Yaaro Yevalo"	Vairamuthu	Chinnaponnu, Sangeetha	03:18
11.	"Kalingathu Bharani"	Vairamuthu	Chorus	02:57

Telugu version

The Telugu version, titled Villain, features six songs from the standard listing in Telugu language. The lyrics were penned by late Veturi Sundararama Murthy and it was one of his last released works.

Track list

All lyrics written by Veturi Sundararama Murthy. 

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Veera"	Vijay Prakash, Mustafa Kutoane, Keerthi Sagathia, A. R. Rahman	03:15
2.	"Usure Poyene"	Karthik, Mohammad Irfan Ali	06:04
3.	"Kullu Pudithe"	Devi Sri Prasad, Benny Dayal	04:58
4.	"Kaanala Chilaka"	Anuradha Sriram, Naresh Iyer	05:54
5.	"Kaavule"	Ankitha	04:11
6.	"Gudaa Gudaa"	Bhagyaraj, Tanvi Shah, Suvi, Shubha, Naresh Iyer, Sangeetha	05:11

Hindi version

Album credits

Personnel

• Navin Kumar – flute
• Deepak P. A. – oud, guitar
• Seenu– oud
• Balesh  – shehnai
• Asad khan – sitar
• T. Raja, Kumar, Vedachalam, Neelakandan, Lakshminarayanan, Chinna Prasad – percussions

Production

• Producers: A. R. Rahman
• Engineers: Deepak P. A., T. R. Krishna Chetan, Hentry Kuruvilla, Vivianne Chaix, Suresh Perumal, Srinidhi Venkatesh, S. Sivakumar, Kannan Ganpat, Pradeep
• String engineer: V. J. Srinivasamurthy
• Mixing: K. J. Singh, Deepak P. A.
• Mastering: S. Sivakumar
• Programming: T. R. Krishna Chetan, Deepak P. A., Hentry Kuruvilla

Reception

The soundtrack for the movie has received positive reviews, with most reviewers hailing the album to be one of Rahman's best recent works,though it did not win any awards for the year. Karthik of Milliblog praised the renditioning of "Kalvare" by Shreya Ghoshal and stated that "Keda Kari" was "a fantastic effort".^[7]

References

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Music Aloud	[8]
Behindwoods	[9]
Rediff	[10]

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2. RadioandMusic (2010). "Sony Music on acquisition spree, laps up five projects". RadioandMusic. Retrieved 2010-04-27.
3. "Raavanan Collector's edition is released". 60024.com. 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
4. "Raavanan additional tracks". A.R.Rahman Official website. 2010.
5. Moviebuzz (22 April 2010). "Sony Music grabs Raavanan audio!". Sify. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
6. RadioandMusic (2010). "T-Series gets audio rights of Rahman's Raavan". RadioandMusic. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
7. Karthik (4 May 2010). "Raavanan (Music review – random thoughts)". Milliblog. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
8. "Music Aloud review"
9. "Behindwoods review"
10. "Rediff review"