The title song by Calvin Broadus featuring a ‘poonjabi’ Snoop Dogg is straight Doggy ishtyle, but in the Indian milieu this hip hop mix is rather bland. Pritam’s variant of...
Continue reading...Kuselan (Tamil, GV Prakash Kumar)
Cinema cinema starts eulogizing the medium, but ends up heaping praises on Rajinikant and getting inflation wrong – cinema for Rs. 10? Saaral and Sollamma sound like outdated, sparsely lilting...
Continue reading...Smita (Indipop, Sajid Wajid)
Why don’t singers realize they are only as good as the tunes composed for them? The so-called Indi-pop singers, in particular! Getting a perennially sidelined composing duo is the first...
Continue reading...Good Luck (Hindi, Anu Malik)
Anu Malik not only has Sukhwinder contorting his overused vocals but also wastes Shilpa Rao in the pathetic Main sajda. The title song is even worse – Adnan sounding as...
Continue reading...Alibaba (Tamil, Vidyasagar)
Hara hara sambo has a rather likeable rhythm but a strictly average tune made lively by Jassie Gift’s enthusiastic vocals. Krishna krishna and Nenjil aathaadi are plain annoying signifying the...
Continue reading...APAC bloggers’ survey
Nope, this post is not about music/ movies, for a change! Given the number of blogs springing in India every day, it seems to me that blogs, as a medium...
Continue reading...Antu Intu Preethi Bantu (Kannada, Yuvan Shankar Raja & Gurukiran)
Four of Yuvan Shankar Raja’s tried and tested tunes from the Telugu hit, Adavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule make the cut in this soundtrack. Nee chumu and Mandaara with Rajesh Krishnan,...
Continue reading...Muniyaandi Vilangiyal Moondraam Aandu (Tamil, Vidyasagar)
Given the starkly folk influence in the film’s theme, it’s no surprise to hear Vidyasagar dipping into traditional villupaattu-like tunes for Kattipudikkum karadiya and Kodaangi vandhirukken. Both are steeped in...
Continue reading...Kismat Konnection (Hindi, Pritam & Sajid Wajid)
Neeraj Shridhar’s buoyant vocals, rapper Indee’s (surprisingly credited!) bloody catchy hook and Pritam’s overall arrangements make Aai paapi (Tu hai meri soniye) absolutely scintillating. This is one heck of an...
Continue reading...Dasaavathaaram (K.S.Ravikumar)
Dasaavathaaram is a movie experience meant for people who are familiar with Kamal Hasan and his body of work. If you are not one of them, this exhausting exercise in...
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