Debutant director, Soundarya Rajnikanth Ashwin, has achieved a feat that no director in North or South Indian cinema has to date.

Soundarya has been able to convince superstar Rajinikanth to sing a track in their forthcoming film 'Kochadaiiyaan'.

Twenty years since he first sang for a film, Rajinikanth returned to the music studio, this time with Academy Award winning music director A R Rahman, to sing in both Tamil and Hindi for a philosophical composition, 'Mannan'. He had earlier sung the track 'Adikuthu Kuliru', an emotional track composed by Ilaiyaraaja. 

Speaking about the track, Soundarya says: "When I asked my father to sing for the film he agreed immediately. He said one thing to me when I asked him why he hadn't sung for a film before, he just said 'no director has ever asked me to before!'

My father has sung earlier in Tamil for one of his films 20 years ago but since Kochadaiiyaan is a trilingual film, he has sung in Tamil and Hindi for one the tracks which is a first for him and a treat for all of his fans. The track is very philosophical with and given the feel and meaning of the track, it wasn't too hard a task to convince my father to take to the mic!".