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Con City drops Naan Dhaan King, Sean Roldan's swagger anthem

Sean Roldan's Naan Dhaan King frames Arjun Das as the brain of the printing-press family, two months after Netflix bought Con City pre-theatrical.

Naan Dhaan King poster with Arjun Das walking centre-frame down a red road, with Anna Ben, Yogi Babu, Vadivukkarasi and a child in a wheelchair holding a trophy aloft falling in behind him
Arjun Das at the head of the Con City family on the Naan Dhaan King poster, with one wheelchair-bound kid lifting the trophy.

The second single from Con City, the family caper Netflix picked up months before its theatrical run, is out. Sean Roldan composes Naan Dhaan King, with lyrics by Mohan Rajan and vocals from Roldan himself alongside Kelidi and Lalitha Sudha. The track follows Ra Ra Rangaiyya, the first single, and pivots from that opener’s pitch to spotlighting Arjun Das’s lead character. His swagger, his calculation, his self-image as the man with the plan.

The lyrical video leans into the same key art the film has been pushing all month. Arjun Das walks centre-frame down a red road, and Anna Ben, Yogi Babu, Vadivukkarasi and a child in a wheelchair holding a trophy aloft fall in behind him. Mohan Rajan’s lines feed off that arrangement, framing the lead as the brain of a household that has stopped pretending it isn’t desperate.

The premise that has carried the curiosity through two single drops is itself the joke. A middle-class family drowning in debt finds itself printing real five-hundred-rupee notes after a receipt printer is hit by lightning, and the windfall does not stay private for long. Debutant director Harish Durairaj shot the film across Mangalore, Chennai and Mumbai, with Akhilan rounding out the principal cast. Power House Pictures is producing.

Theatrical release is imminent, with the Netflix window already locked.

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