The music is composed by Deepak Dev whose soundtrack featured lyrics written by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, Rafeeq Ahamed and Engandiyur Chandrasekharan.

Vairamuthu wrote the Tamil lyrics for the songs whereas Ramajogayya Sastry, Chandrabose, Bhuvana Chandra, Vennelakanti and Rakhi were the lyricists for the Telugu-dubbed versions.

The soundtrack featured nine songs, ranging from a variety of genres and composed predominantly with the use of earthy and organic and instrumentation and devoid of electronic music, which Dev did in the past.

The lead actor and producer of the film, Prithviraj Sukumaran suggested Dev's name to Sivan, as he had worked with the latter in Puthiya Mukham (2009).

Dev recalled that when he was the judge at the Malayalam music-based reality show Super Star, where Kurian was a contestant, he promised him that he would rope him as a singer for one his compositions.

The former was picturised on Vidya Balan,[4] where Dev felt that her voice had a "rustic, raw edge" that is scaled from several pitches suiting the scene, while the latter is a lullaby number that she sang accompanying with the santoor.

[9] The Tamil version of the soundtrack was distributed by Sony Music and its album was released on 30 November 2011 at another event with the cast, excluding Prithviraj who was shooting for Masters (2012), instead his mother Mallika Sukumaran attended on his behalf.

[18] Critic based at Behindwoods wrote "Deepak Dev’s songs are hummable and his background score is muted, suited for the setting of the film.

McKennit filed a lawsuit against composer Deepak Dev and the makers of Urumi in Delhi High Court regarding copyright infringement.

Since the producers failed to appear in court, judge Hema Kohli passed an arrest warrant against actor Prithviraj, Santhosh Sivan and Shaji Natesan.