Lutt jawaan seems utterly staid and templatized, not to mention outdated. Lena dena is no different, despite Daler Mehndi’s adequately hyper enthusiastic vocals – too trite to comment. With a...
Continue reading...Soodhu Kavvum (Music review), Tamil – Santhosh Narayanan
Come na come uses the schoolboy’ishly well-known abuse, set to a simple, catchy tune, complete with rap and earthy vocals. Andrea rocks Mama douser, a raucous, one-sentence song with free-flowing...
Continue reading...Deep India (Deep Forest – Eric Mouquet and Rahul Sharma)
The tribal voices in Viva Madikeri are minimal, while Rahul’s santoor takes the lead with an absorbingly off-note tune. Eric’s pulsating percussion and backgrounds add punch. With vocals from Sarmishta...
Continue reading...Shiva Trilogy (Amish Tripathi)
I finally completed Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy today. I read the 3 books back-to-back (I’m late, I know!) after the release of the last of the trilogy, The Oath of...
Continue reading...B Seventy (Music review), Indipop/Remix – The Bartender
Mauli Dave sounds atrocious in the reimagining of Khaike paan banaras wala; the droning music doesn’t help her either. But Shalmali Kholgade gets ample help from Mikey in Kabhi kabhi‘s...
Continue reading...I Love NY (Music review), Hindi – Pritam, Falak Shabir and RD Burman
Pritam re-use of a part of Bally Sagoo’s Gud naal ishq mitha is competent – heady Punjabi’ness; Tochi’s version trumps Sukhwinder’s, incidentally! Aao na is more energetic than the usual...
Continue reading...Amen (Music review), Malayalam – Prashant Pillai
Aatmavin‘s soulful gospel sound is enticing, given how the composer layers the haunting tune with bare minimum orchestration; the vocal chorus is fantastic! Solomanum Shoshannayum takes the minimalist feel to...
Continue reading...To the makers of Samhita, the Marathi film – who did you make this film for?
Composer Shailendra Barve was mentioned on Milliblog only twice, so far. First, for his song, ‘Mera jahaan’, from Taare Zameen Par (yes, he composed one song from the film –...
Continue reading...Baadshah (Music review), Telugu – Thaman S
Sairo sairo is pulsating pop done well – excellent singing, even as Thaman takes the stadium-pop sound to new heights towards the end! In Diamond Girl, Simbu’s voice is annoyingly...
Continue reading...Vallinam (Music review), Tamil – Thaman S
STR gets ample support from Thaman to smoothen his off-key singing in Maaman machan, even as the soaring guitar elevates Viveka’s friendship-extolling lyrics. Uyiril uyiril is a punchy, captivating tune,...
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