Anu Malik’s Lagi lagi has some old world charm, but gets drowned in overindulgent music. His other song, Lafanaa, is item’ish chaos with borrowed rhythms and recycled hooks. Beyond the...
Continue reading...October 2010
Guzaarish (Music review), Hindi – Sanjay Leela Bhansali
The title song, with its sparse European sound has a charming tune, but Sau gram zindagi sounds labored, tune and lyrics-wise. Tera zikr is dialog camouflaged as tune and repetitively...
Continue reading...Break Ke Baad (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Shekhar
Adhoore and Ajab lehar are trademark Vishal Shekhar; if the former is catchy and beautifully uptempo, the latter’s orchestration makes all the difference! Prasoon Joshi makes his impact wonderfully in...
Continue reading...Machete (Movie review) – Director: Ethan Maniquis & Robert Rodriguez
Is this the same mild-mannered, kid-friendly uncle we saw in the Spy Kids franchise? Though Grind House did prepare us with the fake Machete trailer, the man sure seems to...
Continue reading...Dus Tola (Music review), Hindi – Sandesh Shandilya
Mohit Chauhan sounds quite unlike himself in Aisa hota hai, but does sound good; Sandesh’s catchy, folksy tune helps too! It’s the same folk feel delivered beautifully that works in...
Continue reading...Golmaal 3 (Music review), Hindi – Pritam
Golmaal’s new title song pales in comparison to Vishal Shekhar’s Sean Paul’ish title song that it briefly evokes in the beginning! Apna har din‘s only saving grace is that repetitive...
Continue reading...332 Mumbai To India (Music review), Hindi – Shamir Tandon, Sunil Singh & Band Inferno
Shamir Tandon’s Amchi Mumbai and Unmaad ranjit are ideally blasts from the past; 90s style tracks that seem misplaced this year. Strangely, the latter’s alternate version, sung by Tauseef Akhtar...
Continue reading...Action Replayy (Music review), Hindi – Pritam
Only Pritam’s punchy arrangements stand out in Baki main bhool gayi, but Daler’s Zor ka jhatka works big time as an addictive item song! Chhan ke mohalla and Dhak dhak...
Continue reading...Top recent listens (September 2010)
Kizhakku pookkum & Njan – Anwar (Malayalam – Gopi Sundar) In Njan, even though Prithviraj is doing mildly rap-like phrases, his voice alone carries it through impressively, while Kizhakku, with...
Continue reading...Uthamaputhiran (Music review), Tamil – Vijay Antony
Ussumu laresay rivals Harris Jeyaraj-style gibberish and is merely standard techno-kuthu that Vijay regularly conjures. Kan irrandil has a folksy, Telugu’ish feel and Naresh Iyer’s lively vocals do help, while...
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