Yappa chappa, is percussion-heavy, employing a soft-kuthu sound besides horns and ghatam, and rides on the hook to propel a generically pleasant tune. Maiyal maiyal too makes fantastic use of...
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Oyee (Music review), Tamil – Ilayaraja
It’s difficult to decide what is more cringe-worthy in Eden Garden – Raja’s music or the bizarre lyrics that perhaps wanted to refer to Garden of Eden, but ends up...
Continue reading...Bangalore Naatkal (Music review), Tamil – Gopi Sundar
Naan maatti konden is light and frothy, with every familiar sound associated with Gopi. The ode to Bangalore gets a slightly different treatment in Ranjith’s Paraparapa, with less of Bryan...
Continue reading...Moondraam Ulaga Por (Music review), Tamil – Ved Shanker
Shankar Mahadevan is in his full-throated self in Indiya naade, but the tune is the standard lyrically bombastic patriotic number that’s fairly familiar by now. Composer Ved does significantly better...
Continue reading...Sethupathi (Music review), Tamil – Nivas K. Prasanna
Nivas and V.M.Mahalingam make a valiant effort singing Mazhai thooralaam and Thaen koottil, respectively; the former, an emotional ode to the police force, and the latter, a sweeping pathos number....
Continue reading...Miruthan (Music review), Tamil – D.Imman
MunnaaL kaadhali does gracefully what Silambarasan has been doing coarsely with all his lost loves. Madhan Karky’s lyrics is an imaginative ode the ex-girlfriend, and Vishal’s articulation is perfect, as...
Continue reading...Aranmanai 2 (Music review), Tamil – Hiphop Tamizha
Party with the pei starts off with cleverly using dialogs from Chandramukhi and settles into a droning tune. Maya maya is straight out of Rahman’s 2 decade old faux-village sound,...
Continue reading...Saala Khadoos (Music review), Hindi – Santhosh Narayanan
The instantly sing-along’ish title song comes alive in Vishal Dadlani’s angst’y vocals. In Jhalli pataka, Santhosh craftily mixes foot-tapping kuthu rhythms with a very blues’y tune and Sunidhi makes the...
Continue reading...Kathakali (Music review), Tamil – Hiphop Tamizha
Azhagae is so very Yuvan Shankar Raja’ish, right up to the way Adhi sings the seemingly never ending tune that does away with conventional structures. Erangi vandhu builds its kuthu...
Continue reading...Gethu (Music review), Tamil – Harris Jayaraj
Thillu mullu is to Mersalaayitten what faux dual roles is to Indian films where the hero goes around with a fake mole on his face and no one recognizes him....
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