Uttama Villain is the soundtrack album composed by Ghibran, for the 2015 Tamil film of the same name directed by Ramesh Aravind.

Uttama Villain's soundtrack was released on 1 March 2015 at a formal launch event held at the Chennai Trade Centre with the presence of the cast and crew and prominent celebrities from the industry.

[3][4] The album opened to widespread critical acclaim, and Ghibran received various accolades for his work in the film's soundtrack.

[9] Ghibran also said that he and Kamal Haasan decided to not use instruments traditionally used in period films such as tabla, ghatam and dholak.

[10] The base of "Iraniyan Naadagam", featured in the film's climax, was koothu "with a dash of atonality" and is built as an exchange between the characters of Hiranyakashipu and Prahlada.

[17][18] But due to post-production delays, the event was pushed to January 2015, where the team planned for a simultaneous audio release in Singapore and Malaysia.

[21] Soon, after few sources revealed that the audio launch of Uttama Villain will take place on 1 March, and it was confirmed by actor Kamal Haasan on 1 February 2015.

[2] Besides the entire cast and crew, several prominent film personalities including Rajkiran, Rajkumar Sethupathi, Snehan, Santhana Bharathi, Vikram Prabhu, Keyaar, Dhananjayan, Vijay Shankar, K. S. Ravikumar, Moulee, S. A. Chandrasekar, A. M. Rathnam, Vijay Sethupathi, Sanchita Shetty, Rohini, Madhan Karky, Ponram, Rahman and Fivestar Kathiresan were present at the event, which was hosted by R.

[37] Karthik Srinivasan of Milliblog called it "one of the most daring and inventive musical attempts in recent Tamil cinema history".

[39] Moviecrow gave 7 out of 10 for the soundtrack with a review "The songs are composed with a sense of purpose to aid the story that unfolds on the screen.

"[40] Baradwaj Rangan of The Hindu wrote in its review saying "Ghibran infused an element of fantasy in the sound in 67-minute long album, though it has more music in the film.