Maanaadu

Maanaadu is the soundtrack for the 2021 Tamil-language science fiction action thriller film of the same name, starring Silambarasan, S. J. Suryah and Kalyani Priyadarshan. The film is directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by Suresh Kamatchi of V House Productions. The film's soundtrack is composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, after regularly collaborating with Venkat Prabhu and Silambarasan and lyrics are written by Madhan Karky and Arivu. The album featured two songs: "Meherezylaa" and "Voice of Unity", which did not featured in the film. These tracks were released as singles on 21 June and 3 November 2021; coinciding a promotional pre-release event held in Chennai. The music album consisting of 7 tracks, including few instrumentals being used in the background score was released on 7 November 2021 by U1 Records, and received positive response from critics and audiences. Development During the announcement of the project in late-June 2018, rumours regarding A. R. Rahman and Anirudh Ravichander as the music director surfaced through social media, as Venkat Prabhu had to collaborate with one of the composers for the first time. However, rubbishing these reports, Venkat chose to work with his regular collaborator Yuvan Shankar Raja for the film. Madhan Karky was brought in to pen lyrics for the album. In November 2018, a rough cut of the track, sung by Silambarasan titled "Unakku Naa Venum Di" was leaked onto the internet. However, Yuvan stated that he did not composed the song and the track is not included in the album. Yuvan started composing the music album in January 2020, before the film's production. Since the film is based on time-loop genre, the producers decided to reduce the scope for songs, where the film would have only one track in the album. Yuvan had denied this, since he felt that an album needed minimum 3-4 songs in order to provide listeners, a wholesome experience. Within February 2020, the composer had finished work on all the songs from the film, with one of the tracks will be reportedly sung by Shreya Ghoshal, but was not chosen in the final soundtrack. Another song, with vocals by Silambarasan (later deciphered as "Voice of Unity"), co-crooned by Arivu, will also be included in the film. Yuvan simultaneously worked on the film's score in mid-December. The background music and re-recording process were completed within September 2021, and literally the score will be bundled and released along with the soundtrack album.