Supriya Nair’s piece on Coke Studio, in OPEN magazine is l-o-n-g overdue! While it explains beautifully about what makes the show and its music unique, what it leaves is for...
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Dheere dheere (Film: Walkaway; Music: Vishal Shekhar)
New song by duo, Vishal Shekhar, for the desi English film, Walkaway. Song is called ‘Dheere dheere’ and is sung by Vishal, though he sounds strange! Hummable, uptempo track in...
Continue reading...Mahesh Khaleja (Music review), Telugu – Mani Sharma
Sada siva starts the soundtrack nicely – a simple, hummable tune backed by ambient, world music’ish backgrounds. Ranjith aces Taxi, an underground’ish track with groovy sounds, while Sunday Monday‘s highlight...
Continue reading...Mynaa (Music review), Tamil – D.Imman
Shaan’s diction sounds awkward in the title song, but tune-wise, the composer has a winner! Kichu kichu is modeled blatantly along Rahman’s Barso re, but the assortment of vocals and...
Continue reading...The Return of The CommonWealth Games Theme song!
Nice return, that is. The last time I was complaining and asking if Rahman was given a brief. It looks like the entire country (VK Malhotra, Aadesh Shrivastava and mainstream...
Continue reading...Do Dooni Chaar (Music review), Meet Bros & Anjan-Ankit
Lots of nice-sounding things, but nothing stands out, tune-wise. NW1W.
Continue reading...A Flat (Music review), Hindi – Bappa Lahiri
Meetha sa has an ambient sound, though the tune is staid and predictable, much like Shreya Ghoshal’s Pyar itna na kar, that hams it up in a sleepy, standard tune....
Continue reading...Murattu Kaalai (Music review), Tamil – Srikanth Deva
NW1W. Anything more will be a waste of time. Keywords: Whatever. Blah.
Continue reading...Aakrosh (Music review), Hindi – Pritam
With its Viju Shah’ish item sound, Isak se meetha is surprisingly un-Pritam’ish, dated and predictable. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan gets badly stereotyped…yet again, in Man ki mat and Sasural munia...
Continue reading...Jhootha Hi Sahi (Music review), Hindi – A R Rahman
Call me dil‘s dulcet notes get accentuated because of Rashid Ali’s vocals as Rahman gets his balladish orchestration pitch-perfect here! Rashid’s other track, Cry cry, is the mellow, pondering equivalent...
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