 The first track of the album, "Vilaiyaadu Mankatha" was launched as a single release in mid-May 2011, three months prior to the soundtrack release.In mid-October 2010, during Navratri, Yuvan Shankar Raja started composing the first tunes for the film.The "introduction song" of Ajith Kumar, "Vilaiyaadu Mankatha", for which he had taken "special care", and the item number song "Machi Open The Bottle...", labelled as a "mass song", were recorded first.