Such a promising debut by a composer hasn't been seen in recent Tamil cinema history", while 's reviewer noted that "all the songs in 3 are good and come with appealing instrumental arrangements", concluding that it was "an intriguing collection."Anirudh also won critical acclaim for his background score in the film. A reviewer from noted "Anirudh Ravichander has delivered so much variety in his very first album. The album featured Mohit Chauhan debuting in Tamil with "Po Nee Po", while Dhanush, Shruti Haasan and Airtel Super Singer contestant Sathyaprakash also amongst the performers. The rest of the songs of the album were released in December 2011 and also won very positive reviews from critics.
Dhanush then began work on the lyrics, which he completed in about 20 minutes of playful singing and writing. Ravichander quickly composed the tune in about 10 minutes. According to composer, 3's director Aishwarya Rajinikanth Dhanush wanted a light-hearted song about failed love. Lyrically, the song revolves around the film's main actor being dumped by his girlfriend the song is sung by the character in a drunken state, with many of the lines nonsensical. The vocals utilize the singing style of Tamil folk culture. Its instrumentation consists of nadaswaram, shehnai, saxophone, urumee and thavil drums, acoustic guitar, and keyboards mixed with electronic synths and scratches. The song was been built around a South Indian folk rhythm. Within a few weeks, YouTube honoured the video with a '"Recently Most Popular" Gold Medal award and "Trending" silver medal award for receiving a large number of hits in a short time. Soon, the song became the most searched YouTube video in India and an internet phenomenon across Asia. It instantly became viral on social networking sites for its quirky "Tanglish" (portmanteau word of Tamil and English) lyrics. In early November 2011, a leaked version of a song from the film, " Why This Kolaveri Di" circulated online and the film's team decided to subsequently release it officially on 16 November 2011 with a music video shot featuring Dhanush singing the song at AM studios, accompanied by composer Anirudh on a keyboard. Rahman and was a part of a band called Zinx. Furthermore at the launch of the film in August 2011, Anirudh revealed that he had played the keyboard for compositions by A. While pursuing his degree at Loyola College, he had done background scores for about short films by Aishwaryaa and was convinced by her to also work on her first commercial venture. Dhanush's directorial debut 3 starring Dhanush and Shruti Haasan. He also learnt Carnatic music, and was part of a Carnatic fusion band.Īnirudh was selected to make his debut as music composer in his cousin Aishwarya R.
Anirudh learnt classical piano from Trinity College of Music, London.
He graduated from Loyola College, Chennai in 2011, which according to him was just a back up in case his music career did not take off. He did his schooling at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, K.K.