

The song "Why This Kolaveri Di", which was adjusted in downtempo has been built around an ancient south Indian folk rhythm using ancient folk instruments like nadaswaram, shehnai, saxophone, urumee, thavil, drums, acoustic guitar, keyboards mixed with electronic synths and scratches, utilizing the singing style of Tamil folk culture. Dhanush, in an interview with The Times of India, about penning the lyrics for "Why This Kolaveri Di", Development Īll the songs in the film were recorded at A. I just framed them into sentences and thats how I came up with the song. When I was writing down the lyrics, I kept in mind all the English words that are used in the Tamil vocabulary. The song is also called a 'Soup' song, where 'Soup' is a colloquial Tamil word which refers to young men experiencing love failure after a beautiful relationship. Dhanush sang the song in broken English, as a Tamil person might if his knowledge of English was limited. Dhanush then began working on the lyrics, for about 20 minutes, in which the first line he sang was "Why This Kolaveri?" ( transl. Dhanush, wanted a light hearted song about love failure, with the former quickly composed the tune within 10 minutes. įollowing the success of the original version, the dubbed versions of the soundtrack was released in Telugu and Hindi, with the lyrics for the Hindi version was written by Kumaar and Telugu version was written by Bhuvanachandra.Īccording to the composer Anirudh, the film's director Aishwarya R. It also fetched the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Anirudh Ravichander, and Best Male Playback Singer for Dhanush. , listed the soundtrack album of 3, as one of the composer's best works till date. The entire soundtrack album was released on 23 December 2011, and gained positive reviews. All the songs have lyrics written by Dhanush, except "Idhazhin Oram" was written by Aishwarya Dhanush. It was officially released, after a leaked version, becoming popular on the internet.
The single track, " Why This Kolaveri Di" was released on 16 November 2011, prior to the soundtrack release, and became one of the most streamed songs of all-time. The film features seven songs, with three instrumental compositions. This could have been a simple plot but it’s deliberately cut into several parts.3 is the debut soundtrack album composed by Anirudh Ravichander, which features lyrics by Dhanush, for the 2012 Indian Tamil film of the same name, starring Dhanush and Shruti Hassan in the lead roles, and was directed by Dhanush's wife Aishwaryaa R. The incident is seen from the eyes of each character and each version unravels more mystery, but it misses the suspense element to spice up the proceedings. A single incident paves way for multiple versions because different characters involved understand it from their own perspective. He plays the role effectively and manages to get Tamil right as well.

His surname is Sagayam (means ‘to help’) and he is true to it when he accepts blame for the sake of his friend. He breaks someone’s nose because he has to prove to the world it’s his work. That’s the case with most of the characters in Richie, which serves as a slow but fascinating character study of how certain situations fuel the actions of some characters. However, you don’t quite get to know him till the end. Agreed, he gets to walk in slow-motion a few times, dance to popular Rajinikanth songs and smoke stylishly, but there’s nothing heroic about his character to make us celebrate his arrival.Īs a viewer, you spend a lot of time trying to understand Richie – just like Shraddha’s character, a journalist, who tries to learn more about him as she digs up an old incident to give the story a fresh colour. He instead chooses to make an assured debut in a role that’s not easy to pull off and hard to define. Nivin Pauly, in his maiden Tamil outing Richie, doesn’t arrive with much fanfare as many would’ve expected. Cast: Nivin Pauly, Shraddha Srinath, Nataraj Subramaniam, Lakshmi Priya Chandramouli, Raj Bharath and GK Reddy
