Balleilakka is a song from the Tamil

Kollywood

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 film Sivaji: The Boss

Sivaji: The Boss

Sivaji is a 2007 Tamil political thriller film directed by S. Shankar and produced by AVM Productions. Rajinikanth and Shriya Saran played the lead roles, with Suman, Vivek and Raghuvaran playing other significant roles in the film. A. R. Rahman composed the film's soundtrack and background music,...

starring Rajinikanth and Shriya Saran

Shriya Saran

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, directed by Shankar

S. Shankar

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. The music was composed by the A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

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, lyrics were written by Na. Muthukumar

Na. Muthukumar

Na. Muthukumar is a Tamil poet and lyricist, who writes lyrics for Tamil film songs.-Career:Muthukumar began his career wanting to be a director and worked under Balu Mahendra for four years. But then he became a lyricist, beginning with the lyrics for the songs of the Tamil film Veera Nadai,...

 (P.K Mishra in Hindi) and sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

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 (Javed Ali in Hindi), Reihana and Benny Dayal

Benny Dayal

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The song is shot in India

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. The song also has many people who have had their bellies painted as Lions (this is also related to how the 1 rupee coin has a lion on one side and a flower on the other). Nayantara

Nayantara

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 makes a guest appearance making it an item number

Item number

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. Director S. Shankar

S. Shankar

Shankar is an Indian film director and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He made his directional debut in Gentleman for which he was awarded the Filmfare Best Director Award...

 also makes a special appearance in this song, he appears on screen using his mobile phone when the lyrics depict "Switch of your phones, and enjoy". Balleilakka is derived from the Russian word Balalaika

Balalaika

The balalaika is a stringed musical instrument popular in Russia, with a characteristic triangular body and three strings.The balalaika family of instruments includes instruments of various sizes, from the highest-pitched to the lowest, the prima balalaika, secunda balalaika, alto balalaika, bass...

 which is a musical instrument.

The pretense for the song comes after Sivaji (Rajinikanth) has returned from United States of America

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 and is being shown a cat walk of the top beauties of Chennai. After the cat walk, a girl called Vibuthy (which is also a religious powder spread across the forehead) invites him to dance with the girls. The DJ is playing an English track and Sivaji tells him to play a Tamil song. Then the song begins with Nayantara appearing.

A version of this song sung by the symphony chorus Oakland chorale is also available.

The title of the song was late reused in a track in Venkat Prabhu

Venkat Prabhu

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's Mankatha

Mankatha

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