In contrary to Polladhavan, where the film songs were used due to producer's demand of "commercial elements", director Vetrimaaran planned for six tracks, without lip-sync but rather used as montages of visuals, since Vetrimaaran believed that the songs were used to move the story forward and not treated as commercial elements, as a result to be "realistic" and "contemporary". Subsequently, the album received multiple accolades at various nominations, with Prakash winning the awards for Best Music Director in all ceremonies. Prakash for his work in the soundtrack and score critics further praised Vetrimaaran for the use of songs as montages throughout the film.
The album opened to critical acclaim praising G. The songs in entirety were used as montages (sequences that travel along with the storyline) in the film, with four of the tracks were picturised on the perspective of Dhanush's character and his romance with Taapsee's character. The album distributed by Sony Music was released on 1 December 2010. Lyrics for the songs were written by Snehan, Ekadesi, Yugabharathi, V. Prakash Kumar in his second collaboration with Vetrimaaran and Dhanush after Polladhavan (2007), and its soundtrack album features seven tracks four songs, two rap numbers and an instrumental.
Playground) is the soundtrack album for the Tamil film of the same name directed by Vetrimaaran.