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. 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.