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....
Continue reading...Nenu Sailaja (Music review), Telugu – Devi Sri Prasad
Night is still young is droning and monotonous – some combination, that! Crazy feeling uses its repetitive structure to its advantage; that it has a rhythmic sound helps. Masti masti...
Continue reading...Dictator (Music review), Telugu – Thaman S
Divya Kumar holds the racy, techno Ganesh bhajan, Gam gam together mighty well, but its Thaman’s energetic orchestration that really is the star. What’s Up Baby and Tinga tinga are...
Continue reading...Wazir (Music review), Hindi – Shantanu Moitra, Ankit Tiwari, Prashant Pillai, Advaita, Gaurav Godkhindi
Shantanu Moitra’s Maula is standard-issue filmy qawali with only Javed Ali’s singing holding it together. Shantanu’s other song, Tere bin is saccharine-sweet; the tune’s old-world charm, plus Sonu Nigam and...
Continue reading...Hitman – December 19, 2015
Originally published in The Hindu. Pularikalo – Charlie (Malayalam – Gopi Sundar) Gopi Sundar has been in scintillating form this year, across 2 languages, at that – Telugu and Malayalam,...
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