Theeraaganam, the first song from Mithun Manickam's Tamil film Family Boy, was released on 11 November 2026. The lyric video went live on the Divo Music YouTube channel, and production house Mechanic Pictures shared the link on X at about 11:10 AM IST, thanking director Vignesh Shivan for launching the track.
Nirmal JP composed the song, while Mithun Manickam, who also wrote, directed and produced the film and plays the lead, wrote the lyrics. Adithya RK, Malvi Sundaresan and Aparna Narayanan are the singers. Family Boy is scheduled to open in theatres worldwide on 11 December 2026.
The song
Theeraaganam is out on the Divo TV Private Limited label. Its listing on the Qobuz streaming service, dated 11 November, gives a running time of just over five minutes and names Mechanic Pictures as the production company. The official lyric video on Divo Music's channel is the main place to hear it, and media reports from the release day describe the track as a romantic melody.
The launch post from Mechanic Pictures credited Nirmal JP with the music, Mithun Manickam with the words, and Adithya RK and Malvi Sundaresan with the vocals. Aparna Narayanan appears as the third singer in the label's streaming credits and in media reports on the release.
Background
The film's first big promotional moment came on 26 October 2026, when actor Karthi posted the teaser on X and Mechanic Pictures publicly thanked him for unveiling it. That teaser, also hosted on Divo Music's channel, carried the 11 December release date.
Media reports on the teaser described Family Boy as a family drama with action and thriller elements, drawn from a real incident a family went through in 2020. According to those reports, the story covers a single day in which the hero hunts for something he has lost.
Mithun Manickam is producing the film under his Mechanic Pictures banner, with Mohamed Gani Faizal and Dr K Arun Armugam of Millennials Movie Production LLP as co-producers. Balloon Pictures is handling the release across Tamil Nadu. The cast includes M Sukumar, Saran Suthakaran, Anugraha S Nambiar, Nikhila Sankar, Anitha Sampath, Pasanga Sivakumar, Sivam, Arul Das and PL Thenappan. Karthik K Kathiravan is the cinematographer, Jijendran V the editor and CK Mujibur Rahman the art director.
Mithun Manickam, who hails from the Sivaganga region, first worked as a director on Aivarattam in 2015. Earlier reports described that film as a sports and family drama set around a five-a-side form of football popular in his home district. He later moved in front of the camera, playing the farmer Kunnimuthu in director Arisil Moorthy's Raame Aandalum Raavane Aandalum, produced by Suriya and Jyotika's 2D Entertainment. That film premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 24 September 2021. Around its release, he told interviewers that he had been working in the production house's promotion and marketing team when he was offered the lead role.
