Raising rainbow hardly sounds like Sax (as credited) and has a stark Chinese folk feel to it. Malebille instrumental theme, however, has brilliant sax by Kadri, with excellent background arrangements. With its commercial hip-hop’ish sound, Raghu Dixit’s Sidukabyada panders to the more massy sound, but the composer hits the bulls-eye in the two melodies, Naanu ninna and Chandamama chandamama – Karthik and Haricharan’s vocals working really well, respectively. The drunken revelry in Shankara shivashankara is worth a few laughs, but the pathos-soaked title song drags endlessly. Malebille’s soundtrack is engaging in places, but is no patch on Manikanth’s Telugu soundtracks.
Keywords: Akshay, Pragnya, Diganth, Manikanth Kadri, Kadri Gopalnath
