Tulsi Kumar’s pop album, Love Ho Jaaye, is indeed a pleasant surprise. This album, with music by Monty (Saawariya), has mighty good tunes, sung really well by Tulsi! Out of...
Continue reading...Music review: Ninaithale Inikkum (Tamil – Vijay Antony)
The musical highlight of the thoroughly enjoyable Malayalam original of this film, Classmates, was Vineet Srinivasan’s rendition of Alex Paul’s tune in Ende khalbile. While this soundtrack does not offer...
Continue reading...Music review: Bhagyadha Balegaara (Kannada – Ilayaraja)
Ilayaraja’s recent music carries generous traces from his earlier, extraordinary repertoire and its merely personal preference within the older range that one likes or rejects a newer song! This is...
Continue reading...Music review: Kaminey (Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj)
The surf guitar-loaded DhanTeNan is no doubt reminiscent of Dick Dale’s legendary track, Misirlou (more popularly referred to as the theme from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction), but beyond broad, genre-influences,...
Continue reading...Kambakkht Ishq Vs Pammal K Sambandam
Forget the fact that Kambakkht Ishq is a dud of a film. What irks me the most is when director Sabbir Khan says, ‘KI was an original idea’. It goes...
Continue reading...The lack of Connections
Just realized – quite surprisingly, very late – that the post in my other blog (Beast of Traal) is very appropriate for Milliblog. It’s about A R Rahman’s new compilation...
Continue reading...Music review: Yathumaagi (Tamil – James Vasandhan)
Pesum minsaram carries the sound of a college band forced to sing in Tamil, complete with rough-round-the-corner vocals and a meandering tune. Paarthathum karaindhen is no better – brazenly slapped...
Continue reading...Music review: Magadheera (Telugu – M M Keeravani)
Bangaru kodipetta’s remix is terribly disappointing – it’s a classic case of remixing the wrong way, merely working on the sound and not the soul! Keeravani himself joins Nikitha Nigam...
Continue reading...Nothing to Beat It!
(Note: This appeared in today’s Bangalore Mirror, as my tribute to MJ) It was back in the ’80s. I was in school, in Coimbatore – a B-town and far from...
Continue reading...Music review: Kalavaramaye Madilo (Telugu – Sharreth Vasudevan)
Kalavaramaye madilo opens the soundtrack in Chitra’s impeccable voice – a deep, soothing melody with a beautiful part reserved for the title! The youthful exuberance of Tholi tholi is instantly...
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