Hoovina santhege is very, very Pritam’ish – basic, functional rhythm and a slow, catchy tune – and is a good listen. Baba Sehgal’s Chennagidiyalle is strictly perfunctory with nothing standing...
Continue reading...Ishq (Music review), Telugu – Anup Rubens and Aravind-Shankar
Lachhamma has a coarse, street-smart tone to it – curiously catchy! O priya priya is tuneful, but is also a very standard melody; Adnan’s vocals do help and so does...
Continue reading...Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty (Music review), Malayalam – Sharreth
With its Raja-styled violins and mesmerizing vocals by Chitra, Ponnodu poovai is fabulous! The tune is typical Sharreth…seemingly complex, but beautifully crafted. Yesudas is effortless in the other version, as...
Continue reading...Govindaya Namaha (Music review), Kannada – Gurukiran
Sura sura sundara holds its mock semi-classical base very well. Love all seems similar to Cher’s Dov’è l’amore and meanders pointlessly, but Anthare ivananna is incredibly rhythmic and catchy, in...
Continue reading...Rang (Music review), Hindi – Nadeem Shravan
If there’s anything in recent times that deserves the ‘Blast from the Past’ tag, it’d be the new Rang soundtrack. While everything is consistently a decade old, Abhijeet’s Ye meri...
Continue reading...What kind of music reviewer am I?
This is going to be tough, but I need to get this off my chest. Milliblog is 5+ years old. I have ‘reviewed’ 100s of soundtracks across languages. Initially when...
Continue reading...La Pongal (Indipop)
Tamil folk music, after being relegated as B-grade affair during the 60s and 70s (it also had a caste-based angle, incidentally), got a massive fillip when Ilayaraja entered the scene...
Continue reading...Crazy Loka (Music review), Kannada – Manikanth Kadri
Ele elega starts almost abruptly, but is a lilting, 80s Hindi style rhythmic melody, sung really well by Vijay Prakash in the solo; the duet version by Rajesh Krishnan and...
Continue reading...Dhoni (Music review), Tamil – Ilayaraja
Chinna kanniley is what Raja would have conjured up for director Faazil – the strangely Christian sounding tune, kids’ chorus, all add up to a simple, highly appealing song; Shreya...
Continue reading...London, Paris, New York (Music review), Hindi – Ali Zafar
Like overacting, Ali Zafar actually manages to over-sing in the title song – a functional tune made annoying by Zafar. Thankfully, his tune, lyrics and vocals are much better in...
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