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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 Рnear flawless, since clich̩s are treated in the films within the...
Continue reading...Top 30 recent listens (December 2008 & January 2009)
The last 2 months have been incredible. For someone madly in love with film music, I’ve had a fabulous time – the result? 30 tracks listed as part of the...
Continue reading...Music review: Karthik Anitha (Tamil – Jack Anand)
Jack Anand commits the deadly debutant sin by lifting Bond’s Victory in the interlude of Pada pada, Thada thada (thanks: Sanjay Ramaswamy’s comment) a Harris Jeyaraj-styled racy track. Megamai’s mild...
Continue reading...Music review: Tuhi Mera Rab Ki Tarha Hai (Indipop) – Mithoon
It’s terribly ironical actually – on one hand, Mithoon debut pop album, the awkwardly titled, Tuhi mere rab ki tarha hai, is mostly competent. But, on the other, it sees...
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