Overview
Remo is the soundtrack album composed by Anirudh Ravichander, for the 2016 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film of the same name, starring Sivakarthikeyan and Keerthy Suresh in the leading roles, while Sathish, Rajendran, Aadukalam Naren, Anson Paul, K. S. Ravikumar and Saranya Ponvannan among others portray supporting roles.
Development
Anirudh Ravichander composed the soundtrack album and background score for Remo in which he collaborates with Sivakarthikeyan for the fifth time. He joined as the film's composer in June 2015. The album consists of seven songs with one bonus track composed by Anirudh Ravichander and lyrics were written by Vignesh Shivan, Vivek, Ku. Karthik, Inno Genga and L. H. Harish Raam. The audio rights were acquired by Sony Music India. Before the album release, three singles were released from the movie, with lyrics written by Vignesh Shivan. The former two singles were rendered by Anirudh himself, while the latter was sung by Bollywood singer Arjun Kanungo, who made his debut in Tamil as singer alongside Srinidhi Venkatesh. Composer Santhosh Narayanan, also crooned one song for the film, in his first collaboration with Anirudh.
Marketing and release
The first single from the movie, titled "Remo Nee Kadhalan" was initially supposed to be released on 9 June 2016, but the song was released 23 June, at the film's first look and motion poster release event, which was telecasted live on the official YouTube channel of Sony Music South, and Anirudh gave a live stage performance of the song. The second single "Senjitaley" was launched on 1 July 2016, which performed by Anirudh Ravichander at the 5th South Indian International Movie Awards, held at the Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre in Singapore, and was launched by actor Vikram.
The third single "Sirrikadhey" was launched in a form of a promotional video song on 18 August 2016. The promo was directed by Prabhu Radhakrishnan, featuring the music composer Anirudh, singers Arjun Kanungo and Srinidhi Venkatesh and music technicians. Sivakarthikeyan and Keerthy Suresh make a cameo appearance, in the video. Another single, "Come Closer" was released on 26 August 2016, which was written and rendered by Inno Genga. The song was a reprised international version of "Sirikkadhey".
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