Telugu OST

With effervescent arrangements and a simple, lovely tune, Premani impresses instantly. The friendship song, Dost, goes one level up – bubbly, catchy and excellent orchestration conjured by the debutant composer....

The title song is stylishly catchy, Krish’s vocals working neatly, but Dhannale thalli and Mata mataki, beyond the instantly appealing sound, are rather routine, with slightly archaic arrangements. Karthik and...

Guchchi guchchi is all techno with a tune that merely supports the catchy rhythms while Sude sude’s backgrounds evoke strong memories of Rahman’s cult friendship track, Mustafa. Sandeep’s stylized singing...

The hero worship in the title song is plain crazy despite the ominously haunting music while I go crazy, despite those corny lyrics is reasonably interesting for the mix of...

Despite Devi Sri Prasad’s perennially repetitive style, Jalsa’s music actually is solid fun. Right from the choice of Baba Sehgal to croon the rocking title song, to Kay Kay taking...

Telugu producer MS Raju may have the remake rights of the Kannada trendsetter Mungaru Male, but that doesn’t give him the license to avoid Mano Murthy’s name for the four...

Sayankala and Adharam have stock tunes while the backgrounds do not help in anyway at all. Ninu kori reeks of many Tamil songs of the composer (including Vaa vaa anbe,...

Karthik pitches his best in the slow and enticing, Arey rey, whose chorus pieces blend beautifully with the melodic phrases, while the rock’ish college-life track Jil jil jinga borrows mildly...

Actress Mamta Mohandas springs a super surprise in the bouncy Aakalesthe where the composer lets his best orchestral ammunition loose. Adnan Sami’s Bhoogolamantha however is assembly-line. Chitra does the appropriately-modified...

Allantha doorala with its simple rhythm and basic, but captivating interludes, is a nostalgia trip down to the Ilayaraja songs that we grew up with – SPB adding significant appeal....