This is going to be tough, but I need to get this off my chest. Milliblog is 5+ years old. I have ‘reviewed’ 100s of soundtracks across languages. Initially when...
Continue reading...Piece of my mind!
How did 3 songs from Dam 999 make it to the Oscar shortlist?
When I first noticed the 2011 Oscar shortlist for Best Original Song, I was more stunned than happy. I mean, isn’t that staring right in your face? Let me list...
Continue reading...Making a viral hit out of a Tamil girl’s murderous rage
If you still haven’t seen the song of the season, you must be living under quite a big rock! This. It’s a pretty funky song, no doubt, with horrendous lyrics...
Continue reading...Joginder Tuteja and Bollywood Hungama’s passionate plea for plagiarism
I really do not want to accord this Bollywood Hungama piece by Joginder Tuteja any respect since I believe it doesn’t deserve any. But, after sleeping over it, I felt...
Continue reading...IndiaGlitz copies my music review of Kullanari Koottam
Just another day in the life of Milliblog, I suppose? Let us look at the extent of plagiarism, from even my severely brief 100 words – sentence (Indiaglitz) by sentence...
Continue reading...Bappi Lahiri’s Grammy jury services – a bit of truth and a lot of gas?
Update 1: Thanks to the comment by Raghu Ram, we now know that Bappi’s album does exist, at least on iTunes. iTunes’ listing does not mention Gerald Albright’s name though…perhaps...
Continue reading...Nokia Ovi Music Shorties – shortchanging composers?
I noticed a news item about Nokia Ovi Music’s new ‘invention’ – 90 second version of songs! It is called ‘Shorties‘! When iTunes is considering increasing the preview duration from...
Continue reading...How about an ad for your film without your name, Mr Ram Gopal Varma?
This is the print ad (in Dinakaran – Tamil daily – dated, October 1, 2010) for Ram Gopal Varma’s Ratha Sarithram (Tamil version of the Hindi film starring Surya and...
Continue reading...Coke Studio in India? A wish-list!
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...
Continue reading...Playo Jiyo…Meh’yo.
By now, I’ve been asked on email and Twitter many, many times on what I think of the CWG Theme Song by Rahman. V K Malhotra ji has given his...
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