The title song‘s grungy sound is monotonous but intriguing and well orchestrated, besides being sung well by Achu, Revanth and Deepu! Maula maula‘s harmonious tune is lovely, as is Yazin...
Continue reading...Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (Music review), Hindi – Sharib-Toshi and Sachin Gupta
The title song gets its bouncy rhythm and hook perfectly; Sukhwinder and Shankar Mahadevan’s version is good enough, but Toshi’s vocals in the other version is impressive too! But, Jatt...
Continue reading...Neram (Music review), Tamil – Rajesh Murugesan
Kadhal ennulle, barring that interesting nadaswaram interlude, has nothing new, tune-wise. Kaatru veesum fares much better – Haricharan’s vocals are great, as is the hummable melody. Benny Dayal’s Evan avan...
Continue reading...Aurangzeb (Music review), Hindi – Vipin Mishra & Amartya Rahut
Amartya Rahut’s Barbaadiyaan is energetic and catchy, but also oddly hollow – Sasheh Aagha and Ram Sampath’s cool vocals do help, but. Its other, moody version, Barbaadi, by Agnee Mohan...
Continue reading...Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke (Music review), Hindi – Siddharth Haldipur and Sangeet Haldipur
Mika’s Ding dang ding dang is age-old Punjabi masala repackaged in the same old bottle – predictably boring. Shaan and Monali Thakur’s conversational Nachlay nachlay works only because of the...
Continue reading...Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (Music review), Tamil – Sathya
Azhagendral has Sathya playing well on his now-famous rhythmic backgrounds; it is particularly well sung by the composer too. Kozhu kozhu and Lovukku Yes too get their backgrounds really well,...
Continue reading...Top recent listens (April 2013)
Amidinine, Imuhar, Adinat, Her Tenere & Aman – Nomad (Bombino) Bombino’s Nomad is the album of the season for me. I haven’t heard of this Tuareg (an encampment in the...
Continue reading...Thanga Meengal (Music review), Tamil – Yuvan Shankar Raja
Na.Muthukumar’s beautiful lyrics adorn the gorgeous melody in Aananda yaazhai, sung fabulously by Sriram Parthasarathy. Yuvan’s work in the interludes is almost Raja’esque – brilliant! Along with the director’s annoying...
Continue reading...Idharammayilatho (Music review), Telugu – Devi Sri Prasad
Apache Indian may be singing Run Run, but Devi’s tune is no different from the one he usually reserves for say, Baba Sehgal – passably catchy. The DSP mix version...
Continue reading...Thadaka (Music review), Telugu – Thaman S
Gana gana gets its hook perfectly right – addictively catchy, with interesting arrangements too! Thaman’s backgrounds and silky smooth tune in Mara O mara is fantastic – Suchith and Manasi’s...
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