I was watching the Maniratnam produced Tamil film, Dasaradhan, yesterday. It had music by violin maestro L Vaidyanathan, who has composed music for a few earlier films like Ezhavadhu Manidhan...
Continue reading...Music review: Mathiya Chennai (Tamil – Ilayaraja)
If any other composer did so many insignificant, commercially unsuccessful films in any language, his career would have died a natural death, by now. But Raja, prods on, thanks to...
Continue reading...Music awareness
I still remember this instance vividly. It was during the times of ‘The World This Week’. The program, on Doordarshan, used to be my window to international news, with the...
Continue reading...What’s your Rahman Realization Point?
The 2 composers about whom I’ve gushed generously in this blog are Ilayaraja and A R Rahman. I still find my life’s choicest moments unfolding within my brain whenever I...
Continue reading...Music review: Kurbaan (Hindi – Salim-Sulaiman)
Shukran Allah is predictably and genuinely pleasing, particularly, the prominent title phrase rings long after the song is over. Sukhwinder and Kailash Kher have a really harmonious session in Dua,...
Continue reading...Music review: Yen Ippadi Mayakinai (Tamil – Lakshman Ramalinga)
Doobu daba starts interestingly but gets into a rather silly medley mode and loses track completely. Nee yennai ninaithai is generously inspired by Harris Jeyaraj’s style and the debutant composer...
Continue reading...Music review: Jayeebhava (Telugu – Thaman S)
Kanti chooputho, beyond its middling tune has something appealing – the chant-like phrase is quite repetitive of 80s Ilayaraja and helps this track considerably. Okkasari wins round one for the...
Continue reading...Music review: Renigunta (Tamil – Ganesh Raghavendra)
Harish Raghavendra sounds his usual, predictable best in Mazhai peyyum – the tune is goes through routine melodic motions with not much innovation. Shreya Ghoshal’s Kandaen kanmaniye and its male...
Continue reading...Music review: Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (Hindi – Pritam)
Main tera dhadkan is noise aggravation; Hard Kaur’s Follow me, even more so! The noise quotient carries through to Oh by God and Prem ki naiyya too – pointlessly loaded...
Continue reading...Music review: Fitoor (Indipop – Mohit Chauhan)
With an extremely familiar, but not specifically pinpointable guitar strum – beyond conjuring Dire Straits – the title song, composed by Mohit and Rocky, makes for a rather familiar and...
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