Kirik Party (soundtrack)

Kirik Party is the soundtrack album composed by B. Ajaneesh Loknath, for the 2016 Kannada film of the same name. The film has ten tracks, out of which only six were included in the soundtrack album which initially released on 26 November 2016.[1] The makers later released the remaining tracks as an extended album on 24 December 2016.[2] The soundtrack had lyrics written by Rakshit Shetty, Dhananjay Ranjan, Kiran Kaverappa and Veeresh Shivamurthy. Deciding to not tie up with any music label, the producers released the album online under their own banner Paramvah Music, a subsidiary of Paramvah Studios and the digital partner Divo.[3] The tracks received viral response from audiences.[2]

This article is about the soundtrack for the film. For the film, see Kirik Party.
Kirik Party
Soundtrack album by
B. Ajaneesh Loknath
Released26 November 2016
Recorded2016
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length22:14
LanguageKannada
LabelParamvah Music
Divo
ProducerB. Ajaneesh Loknath
B. Ajaneesh Loknath chronology
Akira
(2016)		 Kirik Party
(2016)		 Srikanta
(2016)

Reception

On 4 November 2016, the video for the track "Belageddu", sung by Vijay Prakash, was released, and became chart topper for almost one year and also till date. "Belageddu" went on to become the most viewed Kannada song, achieving more than 94 million views on YouTube,[4] until its record was beaten by "Karabuu" (from Pogaru). It crossed 100 million views on December 2020, thus becoming the second Kannada song to get 100 million views.[5][6]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsArtist(s)Length
1."Katheyonda Helide"Rakshit ShettyVarun Ramachandra3:53
2."Thirboki Jeevana"Rakshit ShettyB. Ajaneesh Loknath3:15
3."Hey Who Are You"Dhananjay RanjanIndu Nagaraj, Bharath B. J.4:54
4."Neenire Saniha"Kiran KaverappaShreya Ghoshal3:38
5."Last Benchu Party"Veeresh ShivamurthyChintan Vikas, Varun Ramachandra, Chandan Achar, B. Ajaneesh Loknath2:57
6."Belageddu"Dhananjay RanjanVijay Prakash, Shruthi Prashanth3:37
Total length:22:14

Extended soundtrack

Though the movie had a few additional tracks, they were not released as a part of the official soundtrack initially. Post the release of the movie, many fans requested the team to release other songs as well.

No.TitleLyricsArtist(s)Length
1."Thoogu Manchadalli Koothu"H. S. VenkateshamurthySangeetha Ravindranath2:19
2."Neecha Sullu Sutto Naalige"Dhananjay RanjanVasishta N. Simha3:31
3."Kaagadada Doniyalli"Jayanth KaikiniVasuki Vaibhav5:08
4."Katheyoda Helide (Farewell Version)"Rakshit ShettyB. Ajaneesh Loknath5:26
Total length:13:07

Controversy

The track "Hey Who Are You", which had the music allegedly similar to the track,[7] "Madhyarathrili" of the 1991 Kannada film Shanti Kranti, had to be deleted from the film, after Lahari Music had the release of the film stayed after it approached the court accusing the makers of violation of copyrights that it held.[8][9] Eventually court gave permissions to feature the song in the movie as the it was stated to be inspired but not allegedly made to be similar.

References
  1. "Kirik Party (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP". iTunes. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  2. Desai, Dhwani (22 December 2016). "Meet the man behind the viral Thirboki Jeevana song from Kirik Party". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  3. "Rakshit shetty will take Kirik Party's audio online". The New Indian Express. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  4. "Belageddu from Kirik Party gets over 1 crore hits online - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  5. "100 Million views for Belageddu song: All you need to know about the hit track from Kirik Party". www.zoomtventertainment.com. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  6. "'Belageddu' song bags 100M+ views on YouTube, entire team of 'Kirik Party' rejoices the feat - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  7. Prasad, Shyam S. (December 29, 2016). "'Kirik Party' in trouble". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  8. "Legal trouble for Kirik Party". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  9. "Big Trouble for Kirik Party". chitraloka.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
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