Sapura kati starts off promisingly enough, with its Arabian-style rhythm, but devolves into something utterly familiar. Nanna pedde preethisu gains a lot from Samanvitha Sharma and the possible shades of...
Continue reading...IDI (Music review), Malayalam – Rahul Raj
Jagada jagada is Malayalam film industry outdoing Tamil film music’s pet genre, the kuthu, with a manic rhythm and pulsating vocals! IDI theme is equally good, with funky rap phrases...
Continue reading...Sanjay Divecha and Secret (Music review), Indipop – Sanjay Divecha
Ota, the Kannada opener of the album is a lovely song split by marked changes to the sound at the end of each utterance of ‘Saaguve na munde’ by Chandana...
Continue reading...Hitman – August 7, 2016
Originally published in The Hindu. Aalayal thara venam – Masala Coffee (Malayalam) Noted Malayalam playwright and poet Kavalam Narayana Panicker passed away recently, towards the end of June. So, it...
Continue reading...Milliblog’s Top Recent Listens – July 2016
Hindi Tere sang, Jab tum hote ho and Dekha hazaron dafa – Rustom (Arko, Ankit Tiwari and Jeet Gannguli) Jaaneman aah – Dishoom (Pritam) Aashiq tera and Yaaram – Happy...
Continue reading...Mungaru Male 2 (Music review), Kannada – Arjun Janya
Perhaps owing to sentimental reasons, Arjun ropes in Shreya Ghoshal and Sonu Nigam to sing the same tune in Kanasalu and Gamanisu, respectively, like they sang Mungaru Male’s Araluthiru and...
Continue reading...A Flying Jatt (Music review), Hindi – Sachin-Jigar
The title song is a straight-to-the-point fun track that hammers Pag, Peg, Swag set amidst glitzy Punjabi coolth, with a cute outing by Tanishkaa. Ditto with Beat pe booty‘s catchy...
Continue reading...Baar Baar Dekho (Music review), Hindi – Jasleen Royal, Arko, Bilal Saeed, Amaal Mallik, Prem Hardeep and Badshah
Kho gaye hum kahan, with its serene guitar backdrop and ethereal vocals by Jasleen Royal (also its composer) and Prateek Kuhad, is an incredibly calming listen. Jasleen’s other track, Nachde...
Continue reading...Dharmadurai (Music review), Tamil – Yuvan Shankar Raja
Endha pakkam is good old Yuvan, ! Immersive melody over a simple, captivating rhythm, and superbly sung by Chinmayi and Rahul Nambiar, with a particularly lovely humming-based bridge connecting the...
Continue reading...Kidaari (Music review), Tamil – Darbuka Siva
But for Sanjana Kalmanje’s brief intervention, Vandiyile nellu varum is a faithful reuse of and is a wonderful folk fusion. That fusion works so much better in Thalakaalu puriyalayae, that,...
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