Biriyani (soundtrack)

Biriyani is the soundtrack album, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, to the 2013 black comedy film of the same name, directed by Venkat Prabhu starring Karthi, Hansika Motwani, Premgi Amaren and Mandy Takhar.

[1] In this album, there are 6 songs and two remixes with lyrics written by Gangai Amaran, Vaali, Madhan Karky, Psycho.unit, Gaana Bala, Tanvi Shah and Yuvan Himself.

[5] Besides poet Vaali and the director's father Gangai Amaren, who regularly work in Prabhu's films, Niranjan Bharathi, who penned the song "Nee Naan" in the director's previous venture Mankatha, and Madhan Karky were brought on board to write the lyrics, the latter collaborating the first time with Yuvan Shankar Raja.

[6] In August 2012, Venkat Prabhu and Yuvan Shankar Raja flew to a resort in Malaysia to compose the first tunes for the film.

[16] The album was scheduled to be released on 15 August 2013 at The Leela Palace, Chennai[17] with sources suggesting that the team was planning to recruit leading music directors from the Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi film industries for the launch.

[24] Musicperk.com wrote "A word needs to be said about Yuvan-Venkat Prabhu combination for delivering chartbusters right from Chennai 28, Saroja, Goa, Mankatha & Biriyani follows the tradition too.

[25] way2movies.com gave a positive review terming the Album a "Trade mark Peppy melody from Yuvan Shankar Raja".