What’s this obsession with logic in the recently-released Sivaji? Every single Tamil weekly review adds a line saying that a particular scene defies logic. Examples quoted include the hawala transaction,...
Continue reading...Bow Barracks Forever (Hinglish, Neel Dutt)
Jab maine has Shaan jiving to cute, school-boy angst and a neat, stereotyped rock and roll. Dominique does well in Home – a nostalgic solo, while Usha Uthup’s Teri meri...
Continue reading...Saadgi (Lata Mangeshkar)
No more nubile young things lip-syncing to Lata Mangeshkar. Thankfully, Saadgi is not a soundtrack and can be listened to, for simple and straight reasons as Lata’s vocals and some...
Continue reading...Ne le dis à personne (French, Guillaume Canet)
The only reason why I even ended up watching Ne le dis à personne (Tell no one) is that the plot reminded me of one of my favorite European films,...
Continue reading...Sivaji (Tamil, Shankar)
Rajinikant Ver. 2.0 Receded hairline…uncheck. Age lines all over the face…uncheck. Slightly tired swagger…uncheck. Down market dress sense that wishes to address other markets…uncheck. Same ‘ol explosive and predictable intro...
Continue reading...Satham Podathey (Tamil, Yuvan Shankar Raja)
Azhagu kutti is dissonant, with Shankar Mahadevan sounding a tad harsh for a song sung to a kid! Oh indha kaadhal harks back to the younger Yuvan, composing predictable, trite...
Continue reading...The Jatin Lalit top 10!
This is yet another section I’ve been meaning to start but it takes a lot of time to first compile and then make up my mind! Amongst contemporary composers, this...
Continue reading...Partner (Hindi, Sajid Wajid)
Do you wanna partner does have a certain charm to it, mainly unleashed by Udit’s entry even as Shaan’s lively vocals do the same thing to You’re my love. Dupatta...
Continue reading...Kuch Khwaab Aise (Shekhar Suman)
Shekhar Suman? Music album? Why? To be fair, thanks largely to Aadesh’s reasonably bearable tunes, Mere gham, Dil ki nazar and Deewana do impress, despite that awkward voice Shekhar manages...
Continue reading...Bollywood and the forgotten feeling called shame!
We Indians have got used to all plagiarism in Bollywood, but when you’re premiering your scene-to-scene copied film in England – while the original starred one of UK’s biggest stars,...
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