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...
Continue reading...Music review: Banni (Kannada – Leo)
Roping in classical singer Sangeetha Katti for four short, folk’ish tracks – Panchami habba, Pori ninna, Sampige teniyanta and Tavaroora mane – works beautifully! Tatti tatti’s tune and backgrounds have...
Continue reading...Music review: Krishna Nee Late Aagi Baaro (Kannada – Pravin Godkhindi)
The spoofy Baa bega manmohana merely passes muster, but the sweeping orchestration and tune of Bandaano bandaa is definitely interesting barring the overt reference to Ismail Darbar’s style. Karthik excels...
Continue reading...Music review: Malebille (Kannada – Manikanth Kadri)
Raising rainbow hardly sounds like Sax (as credited) and has a stark Chinese folk feel to it. Malebille instrumental theme, however, has brilliant sax by Kadri, with excellent background arrangements....
Continue reading...Music review: Zamana (Kannada – Karthik Raja)
Happy birthday is a lame reworking of the composer’s Tamil music, while Bandhu bandhu is no better, with its standard kuthu track template. Kunal Ganjawala and Rita’s Mandhumagale showcases Karthik...
Continue reading...Music review: Jail (Hindi – Sharib-Toshi, Shamir Tandon)
40+ years after Sadhana lost her jhumka, Sonu Kakkar asserts that there’s more to lose in Bareily ke bazaar, in coarse, item-number style, adding infamy to the much-maligned town. Shamir...
Continue reading...Music review: Ilamai Idho Idho (Tamil – Vidyasagar)
Vaanam pudhidhu has the hallmark of a Vidyasagar melody – from the fabulous vocals to the minimal, nuanced orchestration. Sujatha’s Kaadhal pookkum goes one up on the melody scale, sounding...
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