"Singappenney" () is a 2019 Indian

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song composed and sung by

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, from the film ''

Bigil ''Bigil'' () is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language sports action film written and directed by Atlee and produced by Kalpathi S. Aghoram under the banner AGS Entertainment. The film stars Vijay in the titular role. It also stars Nayanthara, Jacki ...

''. The song's lyrics were written by

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and featured additional vocals by

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. The song has a motivational theme for women, hailed as a women's anthem. The song was released as a first single track of the film on 23 July 2019. The song features Vijay including the 11 women football players. Rahman and

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has a special entrance in the film through this song.

Background

The making begins with director Atlee and lyricist

asking

to compose a women's anthem, the former wanting a song to dedicate to all women, and the latter claiming that men are seen as strong while women are seen as delicate and wanting to change that mindset. Rahman plays the verse of the song on his piano; 'Singappenney, singappenney. Aaninamae unnai vanangume.' (Eng: Lion-queen bold. The entire male clan welcomes and salutes you)

Composition

Singappenney starts with a flute prelude as Rahman and a choir from Rahman's musical group

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singing the first line 'Maadhare' (Eng: Women) followed by beats performed by musician Vuvuri Kumar and a guitar by veteran musician

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. The song proceeds with vocals provided by children as Rahman sings the hook. The mix of

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, percussion beats and the composer's signature

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set the tune for Rahman's vocals to follow. The composer delivers a good song that is both moving, hip, and catchy in its rhythm and structure. Rahman sings the song with his high-pitched intonation, with

joining in later with only having a few lines to sing. Tirupati's vocals serve as the chorus or refrain of the song, the song's tune changing as her lines continue the song with the same motivation but in a different tune. The song then ends on a bridge with additional vocals.

Overview

The music video from the film features the protagonist Michael ( Vijay) training the girls' football team for their upcoming match as well as motivating and encouraging them to break the female stereotypes and emerge as their true selves. The song also features Rahman and Atlee in special appearances alongside Vijay during the pre-chorus.

Leaked

On 16 July 2019, a track from ''Bigil'' titled "Singa Penne" found its way to the internet and has gone viral on social media. It has been rumored to be leaked from the filmmakers.

Reception

Critical reception

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'' stated that "throughout the song's punchy six and a half minutes, lyricist Vivek with his catchy lyrics pays ode to the strength of women. The song as we can imagine will be used by Vijay's character in the film to motivate his all-girls football team while training them for probably a crucial match. If you were wondering, Singappenney is Tamil for lioness". Suhansid Srikanth of ''Moviecrow'' praised the song "Vivek's lyrics are endearing about motivating the team women that the lead character nourishes in the film. And, like most of ARR's recent tracks, it is tough to get into the catchy tune that can be hummed or identified as song" while praising Shashaa Tripathi's portion. ''Behindwoods'' called it a "highly powerful and energetic song composed of strong beats and tune, Singapenney is a song whose music stays true to the lyrics".

Social media reception

The motivational number has had a wide reach among the fans and has inspired fans to salute the Singappennu (lioness) in their lives. Using the hashtag SaluteMySingappenney ("''#SaluteMySingappenney''"), people have taken to Twitter to post pictures of women they admire and are true heroes. Archana Kalpathi, producer of Bigil, took to the social media platform to encourage followers to use the hashtag and post pictures of incredible women in their lives. - ''Archana Kalpathi'', Creative producer of film ''

'', wrote on her Twitter page.

YouTube records

The women anthem has garnered more than 2 million views within 2 hours of its release on YouTube. The song became fastest music video to get 500k likes on YouTube and also .

Music credits

Personnel * Composer & Producer -

* Lyrics -

* Performers - A. R. Rahman,

* Kids Vocals - Riya K S, Nikhil P S, K R Arjun, Vidhya Rupini, K U Kokilapriya * Additional Vocals - Arjun Chandy,

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, Veena Murali, Deepthi Suresh, Deepak, Soundarya, Niranjana, Swagatha, Sowmya, Aravind Srinivas, Jithin, Shenbagaraj Musician Credits *Guitars -

*Flute - Kareem Kamalakar, Naveen Kumar *Live Rhythm - T Raja, Drums Kumar, Krishna Kishore, P Guberan *Tabla - Sai Saravanam *Additional Rhythm Arrangement - Santhosh Dhayanidhi *Additional Programming - Pawan CH, Hari Dafusia *Choral Arrangement - Arjun Chandy,

Sound Engineers *

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- T. R. Krishna Chetan, Suresh Permal, Karthik Sekaran, Suryansh, Barath, Riyasdeen Riyan * AM Studios Chennai - Sivakumar S, Kannan Ganpat, Pradeep Menon, Krishnan Subramaniyan, Manoj Raman, Aravind MS Production *Mixed By - T. R. Krishna Chetan, Jerry Vincent *Mastered By - Suresh Permal *MFiT - S. Sivakumar *Musicians Co Ordinator - T. M. Faizuddin, Abdul Haiyum, Siddique *Musicians Fixer - Samidurai R *Music Label -

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India Pvt. Ltd.

Video credits

Credits adapted from official music video released by

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. * Director & Editor - Amith Krishnan * Cinematographer - Vijay Kartik Kannan * Stylist - Varshini * Art Director - Saravanan * Direction Team - Manojkumar, Ramanathan Sathyamoorthy, Vishal Ravichandran, Suriya Balakumuran * Costume Designer - Pallavi Singh * Make-up - Preetisheel Singh * Assistant Cinematographers - Ilayaraja, Yuvaraj * Camera Assistant - Vignesh R * Still Photographer -

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* Line Producer & Creative Head - Jagadish Palanisamy * Executive Producer - S. M. Venckat Manickam

Live performance

A. R. Rahman performed the song at a live concert held in

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on 10 August 2019, among all the songs played at his concert. On 27 September 2019, Rahman and his team performed "Singappenney" and all other songs at the Bigil audio launch event, held in Sai Leo Muthu Indoor Stadium, Sri Sairam Engineering College,

where the audio was released.

Chart

;Weekly charts ;Year-end charts

Accolades

References

External links

* {{A. R. Rahman Tamil film songs 2019 songs Tamil-language songs Songs with music by A. R. Rahman Indian songs