Irudhi Suttru

Irudhi Suttru is the soundtrack album for the 2015 bilingual film of the same name starring R. Madhavan and Ritika Singh. The film directed by Sudha Kongara, is made by the production houses YNOT Studios and UTV Motion Pictures, with Thirukumaran Entertainment distributing the Tamil version, whereas Rajkumar Hirani and Madhavan presented the Hindi version Saala Khadoos. The album featuring five songs, were composed by Santhosh Narayanan in Tamil and Hindi each, with lyrics written by Vivek, Muthamil and Swanand Kirkire. The soundtrack for the Hindi version was released on 2 January 2016, whereas the Tamil version was unveiled on 4 January 2016. Narayanan's step-daughter Dhee made her debut in playback singing by recording two of the tracks in the Tamil album. Background Sudha Kongara wanted to bring Santhosh Narayanan on board after his work in Soodhu Kavvum was appreciated by Kongara after she attended a preview screening of the film. She informed to producer S. Sashikanth about it, with Sashikanth had a formal meeting with Santhosh in Australia, handed the script to the latter, for which he insisted to approach Kongara. During the meeting with Santhosh, Kongara showed the basic sketches of the film and the researches they made, for which Santhosh agreed. Sudha added that most of the songs in the film are situational which did not require any lip sync. After the script discussion, Santhosh started working on the song in his private studio so he want to internalize the tunes for the song and then work on it. After composing the song, Santhosh sent the sample tunes to Sudha. Composition Lyricist Vivek who worked with the composer in 36 Vayadhinile wrote lyrics for four of the tracks, whereas Muthamil wrote one song for the film. Narayanan's step-daughter Dhee, made her debut as playback singer through the film; she recorded two songs with one of the tracks "Ey Sandakaara" was featured in the theatrical trailer of the film released in December 2015. Vijaynarain, who worked as the orchestral co-ordinator at Studios 301 in Sydney, while also serving as the backing vocalist for A. R. Rahman's albums, was asked to record one of the songs in the soundtrack titled "Maya Visai" (and its Hindi version "Jaaga Khunnas"). Sri Shyamalangan, who also worked with Santhosh as a record producer also sang the song along with Santhosh.