Rahul Ram’s Aarambh is powerful, both in the arrangements and in the incredible selection of words that work with their rich intonation, while Shilpa Rao towers over the soulfully arranged...
Continue reading...Music review: Sikandar (Hindi – Justin Uday, Shankar Ehsaan Loy & Sandesh Shandilya)
Manzaraat works solely due to Shilpa Rao’s vocals and not so much for Justin Uday’s music. The composing duo also give us the spritely Chaal apni and the deep but...
Continue reading...Jai Ho, Rahman!
Jai Ho, Rahman! Academy Award Winner, Best Original Score, Slumdog Millionaire Academy Award Winner, Best Song – Jai Ho, Slumdog Millionaire
Continue reading...Re-ranting about Aadesh Shrivastava
<!–adsense–> I’m outraged at Aadesh Shrivastava brainlessly expressing his outrage at Bachchan’s portrayal in Slumdog Millionaire. So, here’s a quote-to-quote response, besides those incredible comments he’s been getting in the...
Continue reading...Music review: Sarvvam (Tamil – Yuvan Shankar Raja)
Ilayaraja pitches in with cool vocals in the hep Adada vaa, the highlight of which is that persistent flute piece! Sutta suriyana carries Yuvan’s Pattiyal sound, but is punchy enough....
Continue reading...Music review: Aa Dekhen Zara (Hindi – Pritam & Gourav Dasgupta)
Out of Pritam’s two tracks, Gazab is mind-bogglingly dumb and typical but the man redeems his form with Aakriti Kakkar’s Mohobbat aapse, a sparkling melody, tuned, arranged and rendered damn...
Continue reading...Music review: 13B (Hindi – Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Tubby & Parik)
You have Shankar Ehsaan Loy, but the 13B’s makers think Indrajit ‘Tubby’ Sharma and Parikshit Parik can do a better instrumental theme? The theme is however clever – begins serenely,...
Continue reading...Music review: The Stoneman Murders (Hindi – Siddhartth Suhas)
The decidedly item’ish Qaatilaana may be bang on for the skimpily clad woman on the CD, but for the soundtrack, it’s terribly jaded and boring – Sunidhi sleepwalking through yet...
Continue reading...Music review: Jai Veeru (Hindi – Bappa Lahiri)
Bappa Lahiri’s solo composing debut sees him aping Paki rock in Sufi – surprisingly well. This may well have been a Pritam track, but to give credit where it’s due,...
Continue reading...Movie review: Luck By Chance (Zoya Akhtar)
With spirited underplaying (!) by Farhan and a heartfelt performance by Konkona, Luck By Chance is engaging cinema – near flawless, since clichés are treated in the films within the...
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