Hanifa, an iconic minstrel of Islamic devotional songs in Tamil had strong links with Nagore, the town in Nagapattinam that hosts the 16th century shrine to Sufi saint Syed Abdul Qadir.

The makers of Meera Kathiravan's Habeebi dropped the first single of the film 'Vallonea Vallonea' crooned by the popular Tamil Islamic devotional singer Nagore Hanifa, through artificial intelligence.