Hard to believe the man is 50 today! Just seems like yesterday when, in Salem, I forced a cassette shop owner to cut short his lunch break, call the supplier...
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OK Jaanu (Music review), Hindi – A R Rahman, Badshah & Tanishk Bagchi
Kaara fankaara‘s promising start devolves into droning nama nama nei. Enna sonna is adequately pleasant; more Arko than Rahman. Jaanu is jubilantly uptempo and instantly catchy. Saajan aayo re is...
Continue reading...Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal (Music review), Tamil – Santhosh Dayanidhi
Ondroduthan ondroga, the friendship anthem, has joyful sound, and Anirudh, handling it perfectly, gets splendid support from Chennai Boys Choir. Mannenna vepenna is the friendship anthem’s anti-thesis, showing utter disdain...
Continue reading...Srikanta (Music review), Kannada – Ajaneesh Loknath
Kaalittare yudhane plays out like a fervent, pulsating devotional song. Hemanth Kumar, Shashank Sheshagiri and Chintan Vikas are convincing in delivering the prayer to the hero. Shiva Shiva Maharaja, the...
Continue reading...Taramani (Music review), Tamil – Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yaaro ucchikilai meley is vintage Yuvan; lilting rhythm and a pleasant melody. Unn badhil vendi‘s tune seems retrofitted on Na.Muthukumar’s poetry, and Unnai‘s verses seem even more melody-agnostic, going ‘Nee...
Continue reading...Who is the music director of Gautham Menon’s Enai Noki Paayum Thota?
UPDATE: January 4, 2017 – Chennai Times announces Darbuka Siva as the composer of Enai Noki Paayum Thota! Original post: In the heavily marketing-dominated world of cinema, I do not...
Continue reading...5 one-film (or one-album) wonders I wish would compose again!
Originally published in The Hindu. Given that this is for the January 1 edition of The Hindu, I wanted to avoid the conventional bit of listing 5 songs (which I...
Continue reading...The Story Now (Music review), Indipop – Papon
There is enough flamboyance in the way Papon delivers the reggae’ish Loving A Dream; and then there is Kalyan Baruah’s superb guitar too. Tapas Roy’s mandolin and Sameer Chiplunkar’s accordion...
Continue reading...His Last Christmas! You have been loved, George Michael.
George Michael was the first international music artist that I consciously followed, idolized and loved. The kind of love that led me to collect every single song of his, including...
Continue reading...Kaabil (Music review), Hindi – Rajesh Roshan
The title song is a pretty neat combination of Rajesh’s old-world charm of a melody and a spiffy new orchestration. Gourov-Roshin’s recreation of Rajesh’s Saara zamaana is surprisingly punchy, with...
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