Rowdy Baby  Rowdy Baby is a Tamil language song composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja for the soundtrack of the 2018 action comedy film "Maari 2" and sung by Dhanush alongside Dhee. The song was officially released on 25 October 2018 as a single from the film. A Telugu version of the song was later produced for the film's dubbed Telugu version, with M. M. Manasi performing the female part instead of Dhee. Upon release, the song went viral and became very popular, and its music video, released on January 2019, featuring the film's lead pair Dhanush and Sai Pallavi, broke several YouTube records, becoming one of the most viewed Indian songs of all-time. Billboard listed the song in the Global Top 10 Music Videos of 2019. According to YouTube Top Trending Music Videos, "Rowdy Baby" was the most streamed Indian video of 2019 and the seventh most globally. As of February 2020, it is the only South Indian as well as Tamil language video song to garner more than 800 million views on YouTube. The video see the film's lead pair, Dhanush and Sai Pallavi dancing to the tune in a set at the AVM studios in Chennai. Prabhu Deva was assigned to choreograph the song  along with Jani Master. Sai Pallavi, who had participated in a dance reality TV show called "Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhudeva" () and was eliminated in the semi-finals, failing to meet him, later recalled that through this song, she was eventually able to meet and work with Prabhu Deva, sharing a picture taken on the sets, which incidentally was the same sets where the show had been shot before. The video was uploaded on 12 January 2019 on YouTube, and had achieved lot of views due to its choreography and picturisation. "Rowdy Baby" was listed as one of the year's best Tamil songs by musicaloud.com, and in the Top 10 Tamil songs of November on Film Companion by Karthik Srinivasan, who called it a "fantastic song, with a swinging African-style guitar and funky singing by Dhanush and Dhee". Aarthi Murali of "Silverscreen" stated the song to be "cheeky, stupid, and of the best kind". Onlykollywood.com wrote, "With a truly trippy tune, Yuvan Shankar starts off the "Maari 2" soundtrack on a high.