Anjezhuthilum plays like a carefully designed prayer song, with Kiruthiya’s lyrics and Haricharan’s deliberately pronounced pitch-perfect singing adding to the piety, before ending in a frenzy. The hip-hop’ish theme song...
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Hitman – September 5, 2015
Originally published in . Rockstar – Ali Zafar (Coke Studio Season 8, Episode 2) Beyond putting good looks to good use in Bollywood as a questionable second lead, it’s good...
Continue reading...Life of Josutty (Music review), Malayalam – Anil Johnson
Mele mele, beautifully sung by Shreya Ghoshal, has an ethereal feel. Anil gives the soft melody a great build-up, retaining the feathery sound for the anupallavi, with suddenly interefering violins,...
Continue reading...Milliblog’s Top Recent Listens – August 2015
Hindi Afghan jalebi (Dumbek version), Saware & Nachda – Phantom (Pritam) Main hoon hero tera (Amaal Malik version) & Khoya khoya – Hero (Sachin-Jigar) Lip to lip & Ove janiya...
Continue reading...Hitman – August 29, 2015
Originally published in . Khuda mere – Shukriya (Hindi – Shraddha Shree, featuring music by Gulraj Singh) Shraddha Shree (and Shivam Ahuja) are winners of a young stars singing contest...
Continue reading...Bhaag Johnny (Music review), Hindi – Mithoon, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Devi Sri Prasad & Arko
Devi Sri Prasad faithfully recreates his Telugu hit for Daddy Mummy, with the Tamil version’s lyrics. It remains absurdly catchy. Yo Yo Honey Singh’s Aankhon aankhon is right up there...
Continue reading...Double Barrel (Music review), Malayalam – Prashant Pillai
Athala pithala overdoses on falsetto singing and what stays is the captivaing mandolin phrases. Its reprise is at least sung better. With a more-than-obvious nod to The Champs’ Tequila and...
Continue reading...Katti Batti (Music review), Hindi – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Lip to lip is a breezy faux-Punjabi number that sees Ritu Pathak in great form, ably supported by Nikhil D’Souza and some cool sax interludes. Sarfira‘s largely predictable techno sound...
Continue reading...Courier Boy Kalyan (Music review), Telugu – Karthik & Anup Rubens,
Maya O Maya has a catchy, but very filmy sound. The composer in Karthik keeps it simple, with a spring-in-the-step sound, while the singer in him delivers it in his...
Continue reading...Subramanyam For Sale (Music review), Telugu – Mickey J Meyer
The title song gains from Rahul Nambiar’s full-throated singing and Mickey’s punchy 80s-style pop sound, with a particularly catchy horns layer. Starting with faux-East Asian sounds, I’m in love builds...
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