NW1W. Mohit Chauhan’s Ranjit Barot and Sukhwinder Singh composed ‘Main chalna bhook gaya‘ does offer some hope. Keywords: Teen thay whatever.
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Partners in Crime – a documentary on grey areas of Indian music!
The documentary film I shot for, late last year, is going to be premiered in Delhi next week. Here’s the synopsis. Is piracy organized crime or class struggle? Are alternative...
Continue reading...Dheere dheere (Film: Walkaway; Music: Vishal Shekhar)
New song by duo, Vishal Shekhar, for the desi English film, Walkaway. Song is called ‘Dheere dheere’ and is sung by Vishal, though he sounds strange! Hummable, uptempo track in...
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Pappu Hippo & Mellaga – Pappu (Telugu – Phani Kalyan) Rahman’s musical school student Phani Kalyan makes a confident debut in Pappu. The choice of Srinivas in the mello Mellaga...
Continue reading...Random observations from a TamBrahm wedding
The following is a compilation of some of my tweets during my recent trip to Chennai for a wedding…a TamBrahm wedding. They have been selected from many more tweets that...
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Fakeera & Jingle jingle – Badmaash Company (Hindi – Pritam) Badmaash Company is the best of Pritam in a long time with every one of the 5 tracks having something...
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Morning bird – Sade (Album: Soldier of love) Sade Adu’s new album comes 10 years after her/the band’s last (Lovers Rock, 2000) and is a suitably rewarding experience for fans....
Continue reading...The Composition of World Harmony 2010 (Mrigya)
Sharat Chandra’s violin is the soul of the album; pervasive and brilliant. The track Ganga is perhaps the best example of his skills, even as the band layers it beautifully...
Continue reading...Music review: Saari Raat (Indipop – Devika)
Shahi composes 4 tunes and all of them are consistently very good; Barkha bahaar holds some imaginatively ambient orchestration; Saari raat and Kothay uttay have that traditional Pakistani/ Punjabi sound...
Continue reading...Music review: Oum Shanti (Telugu – Ilayaraja)
Even though the distracting rhythms belie the usual Ilayaraja-standard, Ottesi chebutha is pretty street-smart and catchy. In the title song, even if the dated synth jars, Raja works his magic...
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