Raavanan (soundtrack)

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 by Sony Music. 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).

Contents

• Raavanan tamil songs music box
• Tamil version
• Telugu version
• Personnel
• Production
• Reception
• Songs
• References

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. 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 and T-Series respectively.