Anniyan is the soundtrack album composed by Harris Jayaraj for the 2006 Indian Tamil film of the same name directed by S. Shankar. It eventually marked Harris' maiden collaboration, replacing his usual music director A. R. Rahman, who worked for his previous ventures as Rahman was busy with the production of the international musicals Bombay Dreams and Lord of the Rings. Harris Jayaraj began working on the soundtrack in early 2004 and completed within April 2005. But the re-recording of the soundtrack and score which began on the same month took place for more than 45 days, which resulted in delaying the film's release till 17 June 2006. The soundtrack album, which consists of five tracks and theme music. is considered to be "a cocktail of genres" as described by Jayaraj. The lyrics for the songs were written by Vairamuthu, Na. Muthukumar and Kabilan. The album featured songs recorded by Nakul, Andrea Jeremiah, Saindhavi and G. V. Prakash Kumar, in their playback singing debut. A soft launch for the film's soundtrack was held on 13 May 2005. The album was also dubbed and released in Telugu as Aparichithudu, and in Hindi as Aparichit: The Stranger, a year later. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniyan...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)