Single Saavn playlist of (almost) all the songs (except ‘Pallikkalachante Mole’ from the Malayalam film, Sherlock Toms that’s not available on Saavn – please listen to it via the YouTube...
Continue reading...Coke Studio Pakistan, Season 10 – Milliblog top 10
I found . In comparison, Season 10 is no better; in fact, I thought season 9 was significantly better when compared to season 10. But a season of Pakistani Coke...
Continue reading...Chef (Music review), Hindi – Raghu Dixit and Amaal Mallik
Shugal laga le and Banjara are heady melanges! Raghu mixes racy Celtic-sound with rhythmic desi folk; the former, with its Kerala folk mix works flawlessly! Darmiyaan is Raghu’s trademark –...
Continue reading...Meyaadha Maan (Music review), Tamil – Santhosh Narayanan, Pradeep Kumar
Anabelle Pei is Santhosh riffing on familiar gaana couplets, but Ka.Ka.Bala’s Area gaana mixes Villuppaattu-style with gaana’s raw energy impressively. S.Madhu is a funky TASMAC song espousing everything about S.Madhu,...
Continue reading...Parava (Music review), Malayalam – Rex Vijayan
Nenjil nenjil‘s prelude, with that digitally processed child singing snatches of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’s iconic song is an intriguing misdirection to what comes next! Rex’s tune has a dreamy...
Continue reading...Udaharanam Sujatha (Music review), Malayalam – Gopi Sundar
Kasavu njoriyumoru pulari is simply outstanding! Gopi employs Sriranjani-raaga in an austere, evocative package and lets Gayathri Varma completely own the wonderful melody. Similarly, in Unarukayaano, Gopi layers the steady...
Continue reading...Dalapathi (Music review), Kannada – Charan Raj
Early morning could have easily been an Arjun Janya song; passably catchy song with absolutely nothing to indicate Charan Raj’s involvement. Gunu gunuguva too is so very Arjun, where he...
Continue reading...Judwaa 2 (Music review), Hindi – Sandeep Shirodkar, Anu Malik, Sajid-Wajid, Meet Bros
Sandeep Shirodkar does a pretty good job in improvising the catchy sadak-chaap’ness of Anu Malik’s original in Chalti hai kya featuring Dev Negi and Neha Kakkar. In Oonchi hai building...
Continue reading...Haseena Parkar (Music review), Hindi – Sachin-Jigar
Tere bina, with its sparse, Father Figure-like (George Michael) rhythm works largely because of Arijit and Priya’s soaring vocals, even as the tune is largely perfunctory. Priya’s solo sad version...
Continue reading...Mahanubhavudu (Music review), Telugu – Thaman S
Rendu kallu has an easy charm, with a captivating hook and Armaan Malik handles it impeccably. M.M.Manasi and Geetha Madhuri are effortlessly good in Thaman’s Mayamalavagowla-raaga title song, with a...
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