Therukural

Therukural[a] is a studio album composed by Arivu and OfRo, both members of The Casteless Collective.

Arivu, a member of the Casteless Collective earlier performed several songs for the band, announced his collaboration with Rohit Abraham, known as OfRo to produce their first independent album titled Therukural.

[1][5] Rohit had been part of several bands and had worked with top music directors in the Tamil film industry.

He eventually discussed with his band's core member Tenma and OfRo, to imagine how this song could be made, then he decided to write about his own journey to rap world, while also crediting his mentor Pa. Ranjith.

Later, the final song of the album is "middle class" (featuring Malaysian rapper, Roshan Jamrock), which is a sort of an autobiographical account of Arivu's experiences, though he stated that "it is about how young boys from the middle class dream of, how they have and fun and their lifestyle, is basically my lived experiences".

During this period, Arivu decided to shoot make a video for the song "Anti-Indian" and release it in the time of 2019 Indian general elections.

[9] On 26 June 2019, Pa. Ranjith launched the entire soundtrack album which had six songs, including the earlier released single.

[3] Anjana Shekhar of The News Minute stated "Therukural by Arivu-OfRo is a brilliant Tamil hiphop album.

[1] Later, another controversy arose that the duo had used the cases of Asifa and Snowlin to 'gain publicity' but defended them saying "Rap originated from pain, from the Black community wanting to talk about their problems and their empowerment.