Govindudu Andarivadele is the feature film soundtrack composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja for the 2014 Telugu-language action film of the same name directed by Krishna Vamsi. The soundtrack consists of 6 songs whose lyrics were written by Suddala Ashok Teja, Sri Mani, Sirivennela Sitaramasastri, Ramajogayya Sastry, Chandrabose and Lakshmi Bhoopal each. It was released by Aditya Music label on 1 September 2014 in a promotional event held at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad.
Production
Krishna Vamsi wanted to narrate the story of a London bred NRI who visits India in search of his roots. After finishing the scriptwork, he had 16 situations for placement of songs which he later reduced to six, which included one dance number because of Ram Charan's popularity as a dancer, two family songs apart from three romantic songs. S. Thaman, who composed the music for Ram Charan's Naayak (2013) was signed as the music director of the film marking his first collaboration with Krishna Vamsi. However, in mid-April 2014, he was replaced by Yuvan Shankar Raja due to conflicting schedules, although sources reported that talks were also held with G. V. Prakash Kumar. In late April, during the music sittings with Yuvan Shankar Raja at Chennai, Krishna Vamsi confirmed the news in a telephonic conversation with Suresh Krishnamoorthy of The Hindu stating, "Initially, music for the film was to be composed by Thaman, but he told me that he was busy and agreed to a change. It was an amicable decision. I must also add that I am looking for music that will be in sync with the mood, in every scene, notes that will showcase culture and tradition, sound modern yet ancient, one of a kind, conceptual sound from the land and from the people".
It became the first time that Krishna Vamsi collaborated with Yuvan Shankar Raja, with the director later informing that he had waited five years to work with the composer; it was also the first time Yuvan scored for a film starring Srikanth and Ram Charan. In the end of April 2014, it was reported that the song Adavari Matalaku from Pawan Kalyan's Kushi would be remixed for this film which itself was a remixed version of the same song penned by Pingali Nagendrarao for the 1955 film Missamma. However, there was no official confirmation. Yuvan and Krishna Vamsi patiently worked for more than 15 days on a single tune for a song in order to get it perfect which according to the latter "forms the nucleus" of the film. That song's lyrics were penned by Suddala Ashok Teja. The song was titled Neeli Rangu Cheeralona which was sung by the character of Balaraju played by Prakash Raj in the film. Krishna Vamsi wanted to include this song as the character of Balaraju believes in living happily using which the song was supposed to explain his take on life with woman as the example and the slang in rural areas where Telugu is spoken mostly sounds like songs. After being narrated the whole script and the situation of the song, Suddala Ashok Teja participated in discussions during the recording at Chennai and Hyderabad and 12 versions wote by him were rejected before finalizing this one for which Ashok Teja took 28 days. On the night of the film's teaser launch in Hyderabad, Krishna Vamsi said this song would be remembered for decades.
In the press note released on 28 May 2014 it was stated that during the schedule break in May, Yuvan Shankar Raja finished composing 3 songs for the film including the title track of the film. By the end of June 2014, Yuvan completed composing of 4 songs in the soundtrack album. Chandrabose penned lyrics for the song Bavagari Choope which was the other family song apart from Neeli Rangu Cheeralona. He was instructed by Krishna Vamsi to use 2 charanams, the first one to describe the romance between both the lead pairs while the second charanam explaining the film's basic storyline briefly. Ramajogayya Sastry was approached by Krishna Vamsi to write the lyrics for the introduction song of Ram Charan in the film, which was a dance number. This was his first collaboration with Krishna Vamsi and his name was suggested by Ram Charan. He was given a time of four days to finish penning the song's lyrics after being narrated the film's story. The song was shot in and around the locales of London. The lyrics of one of the two romantic songs Gulabi Kallu Rendu Mullu shot on Charan and Kajal predominantly were penned by Sri Mani marking his first collaboration with Krishna Vamsi. He chose to start the song with the words Gulabi Kallu Rendu Mullu... (Rose Eyes turn two thorns) because after listening to the story, he felt that in romance, a girl's eyes would hit a boy's hearts like thorns besides the eyes of the female lead played by Kajal being very attractive.