Tamil OST

Azhagu kutti is dissonant, with Shankar Mahadevan sounding a tad harsh for a song sung to a kid! Oh indha kaadhal harks back to the younger Yuvan, composing predictable, trite...

Badava kaiya is Praveen’s continuing effort in elevating the kuthu genre, while Labam yogam sounds at best like Harris Jeyaraj aping a really bored SA Rajkumar. Paadhai therigiradhu is an...

Neeye en and Kaapatha mudiyala have incredibly silly and coarse lyrics. But while the former has an interesting sound and tune, the latter actually has a vintage Ilayaraja style rhythm...

Meendum pallikku is a lyrics-driven track like Gnabagam varudhey, but the excessive nostalgia is getting tiresome. Is that charukesi I hear in Indha nimidam? Lovely stuff! Ramji’s isai mazhalai uses...

Zubeen and Kunal Ganjawala add to the syllable abuse in Tamil, but the songs, Kangal and Nanbha, have the trademark Ranjit Barot sound wizardry with a some neat vocal harmonies...

Does Ilayaraja use a calendar to track existential things like dates/ year? With an overwhelming dose of déjà vu across this soundtrack, it seems to me that he hasn’t crossed...

Then kudicha and Macha kanni are childish and lame in every way. After a spirited start, Kakka kaaka goes completely haywire despite some groovy orchestration. Radha kaadhal is at best...

Bombay Jayashree’s vocals and Dhina’s minimally inventive orchestration captivates in Uppu kallu. Sangan vaithu takes off from a really popular villu paattu and branches into a trendy rehash. Is Kaadhal...

One of Kannada’s top composers, Gurukiran, enters the Tamil scene in Parattai engira azhagu sundaram, though he has perhaps been forced to reuse the same six tunes as the film’s...