Thuppakki (soundtrack)
| Thuppakki | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj | ||||
| Released | 10 October 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2011 - 2012 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Language | Tamil | |||
| Producer | Harris Jayaraj | |||
| Harris Jayaraj chronology | ||||
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Thuppakki (English: The Gun) is the soundtrack album, composed by Harris Jayaraj for the 2012 Indian film of the same name.
Background
Thuppakki is Harris Jayaraj's third collaboration with director AR Murugadoss.[1] The soundtrack album consists of 7 tracks. The lyrics were written by Na. Muthukumar, Vivega and Madhan Karky, who have written over 35 pallavis for one of the songs.[2][3] Reports stating that Senegalese American R&B singer Akon would sing the title song of the film were dismissed.[4][5] Vijay, seven years after his last attempt at playback singing,[6] and Andrea Jeremiah lent their voices for the track Google Google, a party number in the film.[7] Though Harris Jayaraj had announced in August that Thuppakki's music launch would take place the following month,[8] the audio was eventually released on 10 October 2012, at the hotel Park Sheraton.[9]
Reception
The album met with generally positive reviews from critics. Sify wrote: "Overall, it is a classy and refreshing album".[10] Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff claimed that the music had "nothing new to offer" and that "except Google Google and the mildly melodious Poi Varavaa, the rest are all oft-heard, and seem a mish-mash of his (Jayaraj's) earlier tunes".[11] Top10cinema stated, that each of the songs was "bursting out like a cannon shot".[12] Behindwoods gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars and mentioned: "Overall it’s a good album with tracks that you can trust Vijay to add a lot of weight to with his dancing skills".[7] Indiaglitz gave a 3.5 out of 5 star rating, but cited: "Lots of ammo getting packed, but needs to fire better".[13]
Tracklisting
| Original tracklisting[14] | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Kutti Puli Kootam" | Viveka | Hariharan, Tippu, Narayanan, Sathyan, Ranina Reddy | 06:06 | ||||||
| 2. | "Antarctica" | Madhan Karky | Vijay Prakash, Krish, Devan, Rajeev | 04:58 | ||||||
| 3. | "Poi Varava" | Pa. Vijay | Karthik, Chinmayi | 05:46 | ||||||
| 4. | "Google Google" | Madhan Karky | Vijay, Andrea Jeremiah, Joe, Krishna Iyer | 06:07 | ||||||
| 5. | "Vennilave" | Na. Muthukumar | Hariharan, Bombay Jayashri | 04:47 | ||||||
| 6. | "Alaikaa Laikka" | Pa. Vijay | Javed Ali, Sayanora Phillip, Sharmila | 05:01 | ||||||
| 7. | "Jagadish on Mission (Theme)" (Instrumental) | — | — | 03:24 | ||||||
Total length: |
36:12 | |||||||||
| Telugu tracklisting[15] | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Chinni Chinni Pululam" | Kandi Konda | Hariharan, Tippu | 6:08 | ||||||
| 2. | "Antarkitica" | Ramajogayya Sastry | Vijay Prakash, Krish, Devan | 5:02 | ||||||
| 3. | "Alaika Laika" | Kandi Konda | Javed Ali, Sharmila | 5:03 | ||||||
| 4. | "Google Google" | Kandi Konda | Hemachandran, Andrea Jeremiah | 6:08 | ||||||
| 5. | "Vennelave" | Vanamali | Hariharan, Bombay Jayashree | 4:51 | ||||||
| 6. | "Vellosthana" | Vanamali | Karthik | 5:49 | ||||||
| 7. | "Jagadish on Mission (Theme)" (Instrumental) | — | 3:27 | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Harris Jayaraj in Vijay's next!". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ↑ "Twitter / madhankarky: Wrote 35 pallavi options for". Twitter.com. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ↑ "Thuppakki music by September". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ↑ "Akon to smack it in Vijay's Thuppakki". indiaglitz. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ↑ V. Lakshmi (6 February 2013). "Akon's not singing for Ajith: Yuvan". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
- ↑ "'Thamizhan' was hit because of Vijay: Imman". CNN IBN. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "music review:Thuppakki". behindwoods. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- ↑ "Hi guys... Thuppakki will be available...". Harris Jayaraj on Twitter. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ↑ "Thuppakki teaser and audio released". Sify. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ↑ "'Thuppakki' refreshingly classy (Tamil Music Review)". Sifymovies. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ↑ "Thuppakki's music has nothing new to offer". rediff. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
- ↑ "Thuppakki - Music Review". top10cinema. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ↑ "Thuppakki - Enough firepower, but could have more character". IndiaGlitz. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ http://www.raaga.com/channels/tamil/album/T0003506.html
- ↑ http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/album/A0002972.html