Add Bollywood’s garish excesses to an inherently simple and gorgeous folk tune, you get the film’s version of Tung tung. It only forces you to head to Sneha’s own original....
Continue reading...Hitman – September 19, 2015
Originally published in . Hemanthamen – Kohinoor (Malayalam – Rahul Raj) Hemanthamen (it is not about a Malayalee named Hemanth, incidentally) is what you get when a composer re-imagines a...
Continue reading...Pathemari (Music review), Malayalam – Bijibal
In Padiyirangunnu, Bijibal makes the phenomenally appropriate decision to rope in Hariharan to sing the incredibly soulful melody that seems most probably like Chakravaham (or Charukesi) raaga. The result is...
Continue reading...Shivam (Music review), Telugu – Devi Sri Prasad
The title song is pulsating enough, thanks mostly to Karthik’s earnest rendition. Ditto with Prema ane picchi, where singer Narendra makes a huge difference with his fantastic, cool vocals, backed...
Continue reading...Talvar (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj
Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab is the soul of Insaaf. She brings her best known trait—breathy vocals that rocked her cover versions of Pakistan’s and the sub-continent’s iconic classics—to add stupendous...
Continue reading...Ennu Ninte Moideen (Music review), Malayalam – M.Jayachandran & Ramesh Narayan
Jayachandran delivers a spritely Kannondu chollanu that owes a lot to Shreya Ghoshal’s enchanting vocals. Shreya aces Kaathirunnu too, a blissful melody that Jayachandran orchestrates oh-so-beautifully. He sings Iruvanji puzhapenne...
Continue reading...Silence Is Bliss (Music review) – Naveen Kumar
The title song is a wonderfully pleasant combination of Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt’s Mohan Veena and Naveen’s Naveen Flute. The soothing melody is ably supported by Sivamani’s drums and Ojas...
Continue reading...Hitman – September 12, 2015
Originally published in . Mayako – Asurakulam (Tamil – C.Sathya) C.Sathya has proven himself to be a pretty nifty and functional composer so far, though a ‘big’ film still seems...
Continue reading...Asurakulam (Music review), Tamil – C.Sathya
Anjezhuthilum plays like a carefully designed prayer song, with Kiruthiya’s lyrics and Haricharan’s deliberately pronounced pitch-perfect singing adding to the piety, before ending in a frenzy. The hip-hop’ish theme song...
Continue reading...Hitman – September 5, 2015
Originally published in . Rockstar – Ali Zafar (Coke Studio Season 8, Episode 2) Beyond putting good looks to good use in Bollywood as a questionable second lead, it’s good...
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