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...Jugni (Music review), Hindi – Clinton Cerejo
Javed Bashir’s earthy voice adds a rich edge to Jugni‘s racy folk tune that Clinton builds much like his Coke Studio outing. The guitar work, in particular, is brilliant. Neha...
Continue reading...Nannaku Prematho (Music review), Telugu – Devi Sri Prasad
Follow follow hopefully is about following on Twitter and not real life stalking; the tune is simple and addictive, with Junior NTR doing a competent job singing it. Na manasu...
Continue reading...Kalyana Vaibhogame (Music review), Telugu – Kalyan Koduri
Chakkandala chukka is a rather predictable wedding dance song. In Chirunavvule, Kalyan gets Haricharan and Sushma Triya to sing a spritely song that also has a nice retro’ish title hook...
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...Style King (Music review), Kannada – Arjun Janya
Ala le sukumari is a curious combination of Arjun’s liking of Harris Jayaraj’s music and some spritely kuthu; passable enough. Gangu gangu too has that Harris effect, but Arjun uses...
Continue reading...Milliblog Annual Music round-up 2015
A version of this post was published in . This happens to be the 8th annual music round-up in Milliblog, in a year where Milliblog completed 10 years! This list...
Continue reading...Airlift (Music review), Hindi – Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari
Soch na sake, with its gentle lilt and Arijit Singh’s vocals, is pleasant to the point of being soporific before Tulsi Kumar wakes you up with her dependably bad singing....
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....
Continue reading...Thaarai Thappattai (Music review), Tamil – Ilayaraja
The earthy Hero intro theme brings back the heydays of Karakattakaran. In Vathana vathana, Kavitha Gopi and Priyadarshini’s full-throated singing and the captivating tune evoke pleasant memories of Veetukku veetukku....
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