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Dragon (soundtrack)

2025 soundtrack album by Leon James

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ133278713 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dragon is the soundtrack album to the 2025 film of the same name directed by Ashwath Marimuthu and produced by AGS Entertainment, starring Pradeep Ranganathan in the titular role, alongside Anupama Parameswaran, Kayadu Lohar, George Maryan, K. S. Ravikumar, Gautham Vasudev Menon and Mysskin. The film's musical score and soundtrack are composed by Leon James, with lyrics written by Vignesh Shivan, Ko Sesha and Gana Apellow. Preceded by three singles, the soundtrack was released by Think Music on 9 February 2025.

Development

The film's soundtrack and score were composed by Leon James in his first collaboration with Pradeep and third with Ashwath after Oh My Kadavule (2020) and Ori Devuda (2022). The album featured six songs with contributions from Anirudh Ravichander, Silambarasan, Yuvan Shankar Raja, along with Sid Sriram, Pradeep Kumar. Vignesh Shivan and Ko Sesha were credited as the lyricists. Leon James composed and recorded the songs during December 2024–February 2025.

Release

The album preceded with the first single "Rise of Dragon" which released on 2 January 2025. The second single "Vazhithunaiye" was promoted as the "Dream Song" with a promo released on 8 January. The full song was later released on 13 January.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dragon (soundtrack)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.