The first single titled Simtaangaran from Thalapathy Vijay's Sarkar has been released online on Monday evening, September 24. Two-time Oscar Award-winning musician has composed the music for the movie, which has been written and directed by AR Murugadoss. [Crawl down to listen to the song]
Simtaangaran is a folk song sung by Bamba Bakiya, Vipin Aneja and Aparna Narayanan. Vivek has penned the lyrics for the track. It is an experimental song from AR Rahman which is not an instant chartbuster material, but might have good appeal when seen with visuals.
One might need a few hearing to sync, but has a Chennai flavour. The track is shot on Vijay and Keerthy Suresh
The song was first released on Sun NXT app at 5 pm and an hour later on YouTube.
The single release sets the tone for the audio launch of Sarkar on October 2. However, the makers have plans to unveil one more song before the complete album hit the stores on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi.
It is rumoured that AR Rahman has scored five songs for Sarkar.
Sarkar has Varalaxmi Sarathkumar playing an important role with Yogi Babu, Papri Ghosh, Prem Kumar, Yogi Babu and others in the supporting cast. It has Girish Gangadharan's cinematography and A Sreekar Prasad's editing.
The AR Murugadoss' creation will hit the screens on November 6.
Watch the song here: