Nancy’s silky vocals outdo Habib’s in Didha, but the tune is spell binding – its rather simple, but haunting and adorned with appropriately restrained backgrounds. Traditional Bangla sounds peek in...
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Music review: 13B (Hindi – Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Tubby & Parik)
You have Shankar Ehsaan Loy, but the 13B’s makers think Indrajit ‘Tubby’ Sharma and Parikshit Parik can do a better instrumental theme? The theme is however clever – begins serenely,...
Continue reading...Khuda ke bandey (Amit Trivedi)
Of all the tribute tracks for 26.11 (I recall one by Raghu Dixit too), this one by Amit Trivedi is my fave. This is actually a very Mithoon’ish track, if...
Continue reading...Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Sounds bizarre, no? Its actually a pretty interesting creature. Beast of Traal also happens to be my new blog on all things social media, with a specific focus on Indian...
Continue reading...Music review: Mallepuvvu (Telugu, Ilayaraja)
The dulcet title song is a vintage Raja tune combined with palatable orchestration, while Lokam and Hero nenochane are blasts from the past – living way beyond their expiry dates....
Continue reading...APAC bloggers’ survey
Nope, this post is not about music/ movies, for a change! Given the number of blogs springing in India every day, it seems to me that blogs, as a medium...
Continue reading...Firefox 3 rocks!
A note of appreciation on Firefox 3! I was one of the folks who waited for the refresh at 10:30 pm last night, but got hold of their website and...
Continue reading...Mehbooba (Hindi, Ismail Darbar)
The lilting title song, Tu meri mehbooba is the only track that connects immediately – but it abounds in extended phrases of ‘boob’s and ‘doob’s, quite unfortunately, while Khwabon ki...
Continue reading...Haal-e-dil (Hindi, Assorted composers)
Raahat’s version of the title song is better than Rekha Bharadwaj’s, though both have too familiar a Vishal tune. Raghav’s two songs – Rang and Khwahish offer precious little, while...
Continue reading...Milliblog removed from Google’s index
Folks, This theme change is not what I ideally wanted, but just got a mail from Google saying Milliblog has been removed from their index due to hidden spam text...
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