Ringtones of the song Athiradee were the most popular, followed by Vaaji Vaaji and Style finishing a close third. 15.

Despite the fact that early on during the project, Vairamuthu confirmed he had written a song called Vaa.ji Vaa.ji Sivaji, no other major details about any other song was mentioned.

Rumours went around that certain singers had sung in the project, including Rajinikanth.

However, on 11 October 2006, the source, Behindwoods.com, mentioned that they had received credible information that Sivaji contained seven songs, five of which were set to be in the audio, with the other two being situational songs.

Surprisingly, they also mentioned the five songs which were in the album.

Vaa.ji Vaa.ji Sivaji 1 was mentioned to be the opening song of the film.

They also reported that a philosophical song titled Unpeyar Ennada 2 was in the film, as per usual Rajinikanth films since Baba.

Another song titled Jee Boom Ba 3 was mentioned as its picturization was to be filmed in either foreign locations or in Karnataka featuring the lead pair.

A song called Talla Dimi Takka Dimi Pucha 4 was apparently supposed to contain Japanese lyrics and was set to be filmed in Japan, however the Sivaji crew did not travel to Japan for any purposes during the shoot.

Behindwoods.com claimed that this song was set to come in the climax.

However none of these possible songs, barring Vaaji Vaaji, were in the final album.

Later the tracks were officially released with Chinmayi instead of Sujatha, in Sahana and Suresh Peters added to the group of singers in Style (Oru Koodai Sunlight).

The original audio cassette cover had an image of four Rajinikanths on its cover, while the CD version had an image of the lead pair on its cover.

The first song in the album is Balleilakka, which features Rajinikanth dancing with Nayanthara, who makes a guest appearance in the film.

It picturizes him dancing and singing while returning to Tamil Nadu from the United States of America, with a backdrop of paddy fields.

Over four hundred dancing extras were used in the song, including Pulikali artistes from Kerala.

Muthukumar and the song was sung by S.

P. Balasubrahmanyam.

The other singers are Rahmans elder sister Reihana and Benny Dayal.

The song was previously titled Oru Koodai Sunlight and was picturized in Bilbao, Spain.

The song praises Rajinikanth s style and hero qualities.

The lyrics were penned by Pa.

Vijay. The third song is Vaaji Vaaji and was picturized at Hyderabad s Ramoji Film City, with sets at a cost of three Indian Crores.

Reports claim the song picturizes Rajinikanth in knee-length warrior clothing as the King of Egypt and Shriya Saran as Queen.

The song, penned by Vairamuthu, has singers Hariharan and Madhushree singing.

Singing the upbeat rendition is singer Udit Narayan with Chinmayi while the soulful rendition singers are Vijay Yesudas and Gomathishree.

Both songs have lyrics written by Vairamuthu, who was praised by Rajinikanth personally for his effort.

The final song in the album is a situational theme song entitled The Boss, sung by Naresh Iyer, Blaaze and Raqueeb Alam, with lyrics from Na.

Muthukumar and Blaaze.

Rahman worked with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and choral singers in Prague for the score.

By the end of 2 April, the total CD sales had increased to about 140,000 and cassettes had reached 108,000 sales.

On the overseas front, the sales of CDs in Malaysia and Singapore reportedly set new records for Tamil films in terms of the number of tracks sold.

Ringtones of the song Athiradee were the most popular, followed by Vaaji Vaaji and Style finishing a close third.

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