"Vaaji Vaaji" is a song from the 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

Shriya Saran , also known by the mononym Shriya, is an Indian film actress and model. She has worked in several of the regional industries of Indian cinema, having acted in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi language films, as well as a few films in English, Malayalam and Kannada...

, directed by 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...

. This song was the first shot in this film. This is the most expensive song in the film with the budget of about 3.5 crores. The music was composed by the A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and philanthropist. Described as the world's most prominent and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and...

. It was sung by Hariharan

Hariharan (singer)

Hariharan , born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. His melody is strongly appreciated by the film fraternity...

 and Madhushree

Madhushree

Madhushree is an Indian singer, who sings in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films. A familiar voice in A. R. Rahman's compositions, Madhushree hails from a musically inclined family, having previously been trained in classical music...

. The lyrics are written by Vairamuthu

Vairamuthu

Vairamuthu Ramaswamy Thevar is an award-winning Tamil poet and lyricist.Debuting in the film Nizhalgal with the lyrics for the song "Ponmalai Pozhudhu", he has now about 5800 songs to his credit as of January 2009. His partnership with the composers Ilaiyaraaja, and later A. R...

. He has described Shriya with the words "ambal" which means lotus

Lotus (plant)

Lotus identifies various plant taxa:* Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers** Nelumbo nucifera, the Sacred or Indian lotus** Nelumbo lutea, the American or Yellow lotus...

 flower and "mouval" which means wild jasmine

Jasmine

Jasminum , commonly known as jasmines, is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family . It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World...

. The choreography is done by Raju Sundaram

Raju Sundaram

Raju Sundaram is a Kollywood cine artiste who acts, directs, and choreographs for films. He is an eldest son of dance master Mugur Sundar, and elder brother to Prabhu Deva and Nagendra Prasad.-Birth:...

. Designer Manish Malhotra

Manish Malhotra

Manish Malhotra is considered to be India's leading and most successful fashion designer.Manish Malhotra has designed for many leading actresses in Bollywood. He is known for his different style and his ability to envision a 'look' for the character. He is known for designing the costumes for...

 dressed Shriya in beautiful dresses and Rajinikanth in Persian clothes. The song is depicted using sets of ancient Babylon

Babylon

Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...

 of the Persian Empire at the Ramoji Film City

Ramoji Film City

Ramoji Film City is one of the world’s largest integrated film studio complexes at over of land, situated in India near Hayathnagar and Peddamberpet on Hyderabad. It is also a popular tourism and recreation centre, containing both natural and artificial attractions including an amusement park...

 in Hyderabad. The song shows Sivaji (Rajinikanth) as a Persian king and Tamizhselvi (Shriya Saran) as the queen.

The pretense for this song is that Sivaji invites Tamizhselvi and his family for the second course in getting to know each other. Shriya earlier said that she could not marry Sivaji because she had not got to know him. The second course involves Tamizhselvi and her family coming for a meal at the Sivaji mansion. After the meal Sivaji shows (Shriya) Tamizhselvi all the things that he has bought for her. Then they go out to the pool and Sivaji tells her all he needs is a wink of approval. She winks and the song begins.