Hindi
Joganiya, Dheere dheere, Maai, Sab dhan maati and Maya thagni – Jai Gangaajal (Salim-Sulaiman)
Aisa kyun maa – Neerja (Vishal Khurana)
Do you wanna dance with me – Rhythm (Suresh Peters)
Rock tha party, Rehnuma and Titliyan – Rocky Handsome (Bombay Rockers, Inder Bawra and Sunny Bawra)
Music is my art, Dhruvtara and Ajj saanu o mileya – Zubaan (Ashu Pathak)
High heels, Pump it, Ji huzoori and Foolishq – Ki & Ka (Meet Bros, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Jaz Dhami, Mithoon and Ilayaraja)
Chull, Buddhu sa mann, Let’s nacho and Bolna – Kapoor & Sons (Amaal Mallik, Benny Dayal, Badshah, Nucleya and Tanishk Bagchi)
Tamil
Kaathaga – Idhu Namma Aalu (T.R.Kuralarasan)
Athuvutta and The Waltzing Whistle – Pokkiri Raja (D.Imman)
Kaatrodu and Title song – Aviyal (Vishal Chandrashekhar and Raghu Dixit)
Uyiril, Kaathu kidantha and Kadhal kolluthadi – Ennul Aayiram (Gopi Sundar)
Uyire un uyirena, Veredhuvum bijame illai, Engae ponai and Indha kaadhal illayel – Zero (Nivas K Prasanna)
Nagaram, Baby odathe, Puthitha, Eiffel mele and Enadhuyire – Thozha (Gopi Sundar)
Nenjorathil – Pichaikkaran (Vijay Antony)
Parava parandhuchu and Bongu kichan – Kadhalum Kadanthu Pogum (Santhosh Narayanan)
Ni sa ga ri sa – Darling II (Radhan)
Belongs to the sub-genre of faux-Hindustani, faux-Sufi style music. Radhan handles it well, though Anweshaa going ‘kanna’ instead of ‘kaNNa’ is jarring.
Telugu
Gurranni cheruvu daaka and Rekkalatho chukkalakegira – Speedunnodu (DJ Vasanth)
Gurrani is a playful, entertaining mix that seems to revel its Goan-style tune. Rekkalatho has a really addictive rhythm that keeps it in good stead, besides the violin’ish phrases that keep appearing.
Adagaledani – Tuntari (Sai Karthik)
Fluffy and very rhythmic… for a largely frivolous tune.
Adugu dooke, Pone and Tholi tholi – Meeku Meere Maaku Meeme (Shravan)
Anaganaga, Chitramainadi and Pillo o pillo – Savitri (Shravan)
Itu rava – Padesave (Telugu – Anup Rubens)
Anup ropes in Haricharan for Itu rava, a pleasant, likeable pop melody. The tune is simple enough, but the composer builds the song’s progression very well, leading to a rousing hook at the end of the pallavi. The value of a really good singer like Haricharan comes to the fore when you hear the way he handles the tune, with total confidence.
Kannada
Sogasu sogasu – Game (Ilayaraja)
Kannalle kuntebille – Tyson (Ravi Basrur)
Malayalam
Oonjalilaadi vanna – Action Hero Biju (Jerry Amaldev)
Jerry Amaldev’s return to composing after the hiatus of more than a decade brings a whiff of the old all over again. The entire soundtrack has a dated sound, but one that seems to have been consistently and deliberately maintained. The pick of the album is Oonjalilaadi vanna that Chinmayi completely owns. Jerry’s tune is a throwback to the older style ghazal sound that uses the retro-effect as deliberately as say, Iruvar’s Pookodiyin punnagai.
Ta ta ta tang and Kathangal kinavil – Darvinte Parinamam (Sankar Sharma)
International
Drive – Yanni (Album: Sensuous Chill)
The man with the flowing mane, known as much for his concert venues as his unique brand of new-age music is back. But it’s a rather awkward comeback of sorts, given that as many as 7 songs from the new album are reused from some of his earlier albums like Truth of Touch and Voices. The trademark Yanni touch is easily evident in the album’s best, Drive, but that could also be explained by the fact that it is a modernized, ‘busier’ version of his own song, Looking Glass, from the 1986 album, Keys To Imagination.
