Given the film’s lead is a piano player (also demonstrated by the theme instrumentals), it seems fitting the soundtrack opens with piano in Naina Da Kya Kasoor. It’s a winsome...
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VadaChennai (Music review), Tamil – Santhosh Narayanan
Of the five gaana-style songs, Sandhanatha and Goindhammavaala get significantly spruced up sounds. The former is incredibly rhythmic, sung with giddy enthusiasm by Ka Ka Balachander, while the latter is...
Continue reading...Manmarziyaan (Music review), Hindi – Amit Trivedi
Mast Ali’s heady vocals lift the already giddy-in-love Punjabi tune in F For Fyaar. In Daryaa, when the mukhda soars, it goes back to Amit’s Dev.D! Fantastic singing by Ammy...
Continue reading...Pariyerum Perumal (Music review), Tamil – Santhosh Narayanan
Karuppi is a searing hip-hop melody that Santhosh sings with intensity. The tune and the rap, along with the ending, offer a haunting, modern oppaari (elegy) of sorts! Vanakkam Vanakkamunga...
Continue reading...Sarkari Hi. Pra. Shaale, Kasaragodu (Music review), Kannada – Vasuki Vaibhav
Vasuki Vaibhav composes and sings Arere Avala Naguva, a lively rock number with noticeably good guitar work by Karthik Chennoji Rao and sax by Nathan. The tune is thoroughly engaging...
Continue reading...Pyaar Prema Kaadhal (Music review), Tamil – Yuvan Shankar Raja
High On Love should ideally be High on Yuvan! The entrancing melody is vintage Yuvan, with a deeply engaging orchestration and Sid Sriram’s stupendous vocals. Dope Track is equally brilliant....
Continue reading...Peranbu (Music review), Tamil – Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan’s first interlude in Dhooramaai is quite literally like soaking into the beauty of a cool, green mountain, as the music simply flows. Vijay Yesudas adds to the effect with...
Continue reading...Karwaan (Music review), Hindi – Anurag Saikia, Prateek Kuhad, Imaad Shah, SlowCheeta & Shwetang Shankar
Of the two songs by Anurag Saikia, Chota Sa Fasana is an easy winner. Written by the film’s director Akarsh Khurana, it plays beautifully on the ‘safar’ theme of the...
Continue reading...Lakshmi (Music review), Tamil – Sam C.S.
Morrakka Mattrakkaa is a beautifully constructed joyous outburst of a song. Uthara Unnikrishnan’s exuberant and innocent voice carries it as much as Madhan Karky’s inventive lyrics cheekily inverting the genders...
Continue reading...Kolamaavu Kokila – CoCo (Music review), Tamil – Anirudh
Sean Roldan’s grungy voice goes wonderfully with the moody tune of Edhuvaraiyo! Anirudh rolls out his mysterious, Moby-style backgrounds only after the first minute, raising the stakes! Kalyaana Vayasu, sung...
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