Kavitha unveils Bathukamma song by Rahman

Hyderabad: With

Bathukamma

festivities set to begin from Wednesday, MLC and Telangana Jagruthi founder Kalvakuntla Kavitha and film director Gautham Vasudev Menon launched a ‘Bathukamma’

song

here on Tuesday.

The song was composed by music director

AR Rahman

and sung by Uthara Unnikrishnan. The song shot in the districts of Telangana was released a day ahead of the Bathukamma festival. Rahman took to Twitter to launch the song. He tweeted “A festival of life. A celebration of togetherness. Bringing you a glimpse of the beauty of Bathukamma through “#AllipoolaVennela” along with Telangana Jagruthi (sic).”

The collaboration of Gautam Menon, Rahman and Kavitha has added colour to the festive atmosphere of Bathukamma and has given especially women of Telangana another reason to celebrate the festival in a big way this time round, officials said.