Everyone involved in Chumma chaati – lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya, composer Amartya and singer Shefali Alvares – are at their annoying best. Mind blastic isn’t any different; not annoying but incredibly...
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Top recent listens (November 2013)
November 2013 has been one of the best months in recent memory – so many good songs, across languages! Ishq di booti, Laage re nain & Tori chab – Coke...
Continue reading...Welcome to Tamil cinema, Justin Prabhakaran!
Recent earworm: The song from Pannaiyaarum Padminiyum – Onakkaaga Poranthaenae! Totally addicted to the lovely tune, enough to write about it in a separate entry! From whatever limited memory I...
Continue reading...What The Fish (Music review), Hindi – Amartya Rahut, Dhruv Dhalla, Indraneel Hariharan & Sandeep Banerjee
Amartya Rahut’s Goti jaam mixes heavy metal, Manoj Yadav’s funky lyrics and occasionally interesting guitar, but doesn’t really deliver. Amartya’s other song, Maasiji, is an embarassing mess! Mrigya’s Indraneel Hariharan...
Continue reading...Billa Ranga (Music review), Telugu – Santosh Narayanan
Ranina Reddy’s singing is perfect for the punchy, seductive Raja ra, while Gangs of Ditchpally is a mad mix, invoking catchy hip-hop sound and Gaptun Vijaykanth! Santosh reuses his own...
Continue reading...Madha Yaanai Koottam (Music review), Tamil – NR Raghunanthan
Velmurugan’s Unnai vanagathaa makes odd use of TMS’s evergreen Murugan song, Unnai ninaikadha naalillai, while Mukkulathu seems background’ish at best. Thanjai Selvi’s Enga pora, however, makes a strong impact as...
Continue reading...The sorry story of Imman vs. Manam Kothi Paravai’s Kannada remake
Back in September this year, Kannada composer Gurukiran sued the producers of the Telugu film ‘Potugadu’ for using two songs from his film, Govindaya Namaha’ without his permission. Potugadu is...
Continue reading...Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (Music review), Tamil – Justin Prabhakaran
Enga ooru vandi, despite all the exuberant singing, feels labored. Onakkaga poranthene crafts a lovely tune for the retro and Raja’esque styles, subtly and imaginatively, between its anupallavi and charanam,...
Continue reading...Jag Changa (Music review), Indipop – The Raghu Dixit Project
Parasiva seems like the perfect candidate for a arena-folk anthem – with incredibly catchy percussion and superb vocals and acoustic guitar by Raghu, this is a fabulous opener! The package...
Continue reading...Azhagu Magan (Music review), Tamil – James Vasanthan
Enna enna idhu is absolutely fascinating – that typical James Vasanthan style slow burner like Kangal Irandaal from Subramaniapuram, fabulously sung by Jai and Sai Sudha amidst a lovely smattering...
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