Tanishk Bagchi has been getting some well-deserved hate for his atrocious recreation of A.R.Rahman’s Masakali, from Delhi 6. He did something equally terrible with A.R.Rahman’s Humma Humma earlier. Also, he...
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Oh No, They Remixed Urvashi Urvashi Too?
Remixes in Hindi film music rake up mega numbers online. They are also much derided and have people wondering which favorite of theirs will be remixed next, with fear. So...
Continue reading...Stories of song title discovery
One of my classmates from school had shared a song (audio file) with a note, “Central theatre interval music 30 yrs back” in the school alumni Whatsapp Group. This is...
Continue reading...Playlists vs borders: Music streaming brings South India closer
I wrote about the South Indian melting pot, led by music, movies and playlists, for The Ken. Read the story .
Continue reading...Go ahead… break the language barrier with music!
I speak 3 languages fluently – Tamil, English, and Hindi. I can understand bits of Kannada and Malayalam reasonably well, and understand Telugu even lesser. But, if you put me...
Continue reading...How do you discover new music?
I came across this , on the role of Spotify in the future of the music industry. It led me to think about the function of music discovery, something I...
Continue reading...Mi-(X)II-iblog
Having completed writing music reviews for 12 years, I was almost facing an existential dilemma. Thanks largely to Jagga Jasoos. Here’s a film that’s a true-blue musical (with a very...
Continue reading...Ajaneesh Loknath’s hatrick is disturbing
This is both disappointing and depressing. Listen to: ‘Kaagadada Doniyalli’ from Kirik Party (music: Ajaneesh Loknath) and, The River, by The Bombay Royale Now, it is easy to jump to...
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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...
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...
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