Adangaa Pidaari has Shankar Mahadevan toying with a frivolous, MCP’ish number and beyond the catchy backgrounds, MGR illeenga is largely flippant. Eppadiyo maattikitten takes Tamil hip-hop ahead and showcases Yuvan’s...
Continue reading...Music review: Swarathma (Indipop)
Indian Ocean? Junoon? Euphoria? All rolled into one with a college band’ish rough edge! Beyond all the hype of being the band that won Radiocity’s Best Hindi Band hunt, the...
Continue reading...Music review: Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puraavum (Tamil – Yuvan Shankar Raja)
Muthathu pakkathil is Vaadi en kappakezhange version 2.0 – with the same verve and loutish charm, while the choice of singers, Javed Ali and Bela Shende, along with the Raja’esque...
Continue reading...Music review: Venkata in Sankata (Kannada – Ricky Kej)
Venkata with Avinash Chebbi’s vocals is groovy with a catchy hook, while its racier English version is pretty good fun too. Nodutha is punctuated by completely silent portions that are...
Continue reading...Oscar nominations are out…Rahman in!
Wonderful beginning! Original Score: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Alexandre Desplat; “Defiance,” James Newton Howard; “Milk,” Danny Elfman; “Slumdog Millionaire,” A.R. Rahman; “WALL-E,” Thomas Newman. Original Song: “Down to...
Continue reading...Reviewing the music review of Dev.D!
Even though I wouldn’t elevate Dev.D’s soundtrack with the halo’ed 300-word club of Delhi 6, I take back my comment that Dev.D got a 200 word review only because of...
Continue reading...New policy – tweeting away to glory!
After almost 3+ years of expressing my opinion on a lot of music, I’ve decided to focus on the better ones (as much as possible) while expressing my displeasure about...
Continue reading...Music review: Connections (A.R.Rahman)
Karthik/ Rahman and Raqeeb Aalam enthusiastically deliver Jiya se jiya – but the song itself is a bit of a letdown – too dense in the backgrounds as it progresses....
Continue reading...Music review: Drona (Telugu – Anoop Rubens)
There’s a particularly detached way Ranjith sings Yem maayam chesave that is terribly addictive – the catchy, mindless and predictable tune works really well that you hum the first line...
Continue reading...Music review: Ayan (Tamil – Harris Jeyaraj)
Pala pala’s pace and appealing rhythms makes up for the slightly routine tune, while Mahati and Harish Raghavendra rock the hushed, ambient melody, Nenje nenje, that is soaked in the...
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