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Week 290: YouTube | Spotify
The Spotify playlist doesn’t include the Kannada song from The Devil. Surprised to see Saregama Kannada not being prompt enough to add the song on Spotify yet.
Hum Dono – Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri (Vishal-Sheykhar) – Hindi: The nostalgic Vishal and Sheykhar sound, cooked ot perfection! This is the kind of song that could have easily been in a soundtrack like Anjaana Anjaani 15 years ago, and yet here it is, in 2025, creating the same effect!
Sitaare – Ikkis (White Noise Collectives) – Hindi: Ikkis is a Sriram Raghavan film. And this song, credited to White Noise Collectives sounds more like Pritam (think Sriram’s last film, Merry Christmas) than an artist management agency founded by Sachin-Jigar! But it’s a gorgeous song, no doubt, made even more listenable by Arijit’s sweeping, swoon-worthy singing, and the lovely lines by Amitabh Bhattacharya.
Lag Rahi Dua – Durlabh Prasad Ki Dusri Shaadi (Anurag Saikia) – Hindi: A warm, old-school filmi romance ballad where Anurag Saikia leans into sweeping melody with the help of Divya Kumar and Kalpana Gandharv’s earthy vocals.
Mu Dha La Li – Vaa Vaathiyaar (Santhosh Narayanan) – Tamil: Mu Dha La Li is Santhosh Narayanan going full funky-brass-party mode, and it works almost instantly. The track rides a bouncy bassline, punchy horns and crunchy guitars, with Santhosh and Sublahshini chanting the nonsensey title hook till it feels like a football-stand anthem!! Also, in the Vaa Vaathiyaar teaser released in November 2024 featuring an instrumental version of Aalapikkey Ummak, towards the end, Karthi is heard saying, “Hello? Sollunga Mani Sir”. In Mu Dha La Li, the only lyrics go, “Already naan paNakkaaran. Pan India padam paNNa poren. Mani Sir ku phone paNNi, enna pathi biopic paNNa solla poren”. I can hear Mani Ratnam saying, “Ennaya vechu comedy keemidi pannalaye?” 🙂
EmKoney – Draupathi 2 (Ghibran) – Tamil: Beyond Ghibran’s very obviously pleasant tune, harking back to some of his early-career sounds, what stood out in this song for me were Selvamira’s lines. Some of the Tamil words are so beautifully old and archaic that I had to pause many times the first time to fully absorb the Tamil used.
Sallangundaale – Champion (Mickey J Meyer) – Telugu: Trademark Mickey J Meyer! Feel-good mass-pop, with the melodic warmth that I always expect from the composer, along with playful touches like Arul Dev’s kazoo, keeping the energy consistently high. Ritesh G Rao and Manisha Eerabatthini sound delightfully unselfconscious, adding charm to the song.
Pommante – Bad Boy Karthik (Harris Jayaraj) – Telugu: Harris Jayaraj slips comfortably back into his lush romantic zone, and the familiarity, at least in this song, is a feature, not a bug 🙂 The arrangement leans on smooth programmed layers, gentle guitars and a slow-blooming melodic arc, with surprising highs that gives Vijay Yesudas and Shakthisree Gopalan ample room to caress the tune with a lot of care.
Yeno Onthara Chanda – The Devil (B Ajaneesh Loknath) – Kannada: This is Ajaneesh in unabashedly sugary, devotional-tinged mode, almost like an extension from Kantara, particularly since it has Abby V as the male singer. The easily likeable melody glides on a gentle mid-tempo groove and a chorus that leans on the Krishna refrain to create a temple-style warmth.
Rahat – Tanishk Bagchi, ft. Adnan Sami (Hindi/Indipop): Tanishk Bagchi keeps the template simple: a soft rock–ish romantic ballad with gentle synth pads, light percussion, and a melody designed to flatter Sami’s phrasing. The hook line “Rahat hai tu” lands smoothly. The tune is instantly hummable, impeccably sung, and content to sit in the “safe, mid?tempo T?Series love ballad” spectrum rather than push it anywhere new… which too, is not such a bad thing 🙂
Sheher – The Yellow Diary (Hindi/Indipop): This is an intimate, slow-burn urban lament that distills everything The Yellow Diary does so well, particularly, Rajan Batra’s vocals, that, here sound more weary than cheery, fit for the song’s theme of suffocation and loneliness of/in a city. The band, though, continues to concoct delicate synths, guitar swells and unhurried drums into a winning combination.
Konjamachum – Vijaynarain (Tamil/Indipop): If the use of archaic, less used Tamil words sounded beautiful, the Tamil employed by Super Subu in this pop song is a completely different kind of comfort food equivalent. The colloquial and conversational verses flow beautifully in Vijaynarain’s incredibly warm, guitar-loaded melody. Priyanka NK’s voice is very sweet and the layering of both Priyanka and Vijaynarain’s voices within the tune is done with great care: “Yekkam Kooduthey, Dhenum Dhenum Manam ThaLumbuthey” and “Meendum Paarthadhum, Thodangalaam… Mudinjidaamale” where their voices blend to create a lovely effect.
Fa9la – Flipperachi: Fa9la is a hyper-condensed party grenade where Flipperachi and DJ Outlaw weaponize catchiness and silliness in equal measure. But this one-year-old is the current viral hit because of it being featured in Durandhar, showcasing Akshaye—Rahman Dakait—Khanna’s immense swag! Insanely catchy!
