The serpentine, sufi’ish build-up to the title song is mesmerizing, with an added Punju flavor for tadka effect! Tulsi’s vocals jar but Hamza makes up for it! Mithoon’s trademark tune...
Continue reading...Bommalattam (Tamil, Himesh Reshammiya)
Oh nenjil, for all practical purposes, is a standard, one-hook Himesh tune, except that he’s not singing and is sung in Tamil. To be fair, the anupallavi and charanam are...
Continue reading...And my award for the most-awaited soundtrack goes to…
Many visitors have been asking my choice for the most-awaited soundtrack. If you go by conventional choices, Vishal Shekhar’s Om shanti om would be right up there. Ditto for Aggar...
Continue reading...Phir Bewafaai (Indipop, Agam Kumar Nigam)
Phir Bewafaai invokes painful memories of the 2005 smash hit, Bewafaai, by the same singer – and is indeed soaked in cheesy poetry about deception and betrayal, by lyricists Prashant...
Continue reading...Kaisay Kahein (Hindi, Pritam & Others)
Much as Zubin tries to infuse life into Kee kasoor, this techno-styled ditty just fails to take off. But Shaan is in super form in the title song. Pritam uses...
Continue reading...Kahaani Gudiya Ki (Hindi, Vivek Prakash)
Is it Jagjit Singh’s voice? Or does he insist that his songs be composed in its own particular genre, right up to the choice of instruments? Not that I’m against...
Continue reading...Fear (Hindi, Himesh Reshammiya)
Tanha tanha lets us on Himesh’s annoying nasal twang slow and steady that it builds up into a complete rage by the time the track ends. Dil dhadkata hai is...
Continue reading...DIVA (Malaysian, Mithoon)
Diva’s lead star, Ning Baizura croons with a fantastic range in Bintang impianku – marked by the composer’s now-trademark keyboard backgrounds. In contrast, Kasih is a mellow melody punctuated with...
Continue reading...Marigold (Hindi/ English, Shankar Ehsaan Loy)
Shaan excels in the ballad-style Yeh pyaar, singing Javed saab’s very imaginative seven stages of love. The composing trio outdo themselves in the superbly orchestrated Woh pyaar hai and Tan...
Continue reading...Sooryan (Malayalam, Ilayaraja)
Yesudas’ Kalyani Dharmavathi (see comments) in Ambe vaani and Kavalam Sreekumar, Sankaran Namboodri combination in Shabdhamayee (Shanmugapriya? Jonpuri? Raagavardhini – see comments) present the now-outdated, unadulterated filmi-classical genre. Ishtakkari, despite...
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