Ishq karenge‘s power qawali is aptly spoofy, strongly evoking Farah Khan’s musical sensibilities, of all things! While Abhishek Nehwal and Sona Mohapatra handle it with ease, Shadab Faridi seems oddly...
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ABCD 2 (Music review), Hindi – Sachin-Jigar
Bezubaan‘s redux trades the earlier version’s Western sensibilities to desi-rap, powered by Vishal Dadlani’s vocals and ending on a similar high, like the original. The original film’s song, Sun saathiya,...
Continue reading...Tanu Weds Manu Returns (Music review), Hindi – Krsna, Tanishq & Vayu
Move On is a frenetically paced, borderline Middle Eastern (Vakulabharanam raga based?) track that Sunidhi completely owns, while lyricist Raj Shekhar’s melancholic lines come out really well in Ankit Tiwari’s...
Continue reading...You Too Brutus (Music review), Malayalam – Roby Abraham
Ettum pottum, in Vineeth Sreenivasan’s confident vocals, is pulsating hard rock, with superb guitaring all through. Sarangiyil has the immensely talented Job Kurien hold forth, with his singing, on to...
Continue reading...Romeo Juliet (Music review), Tamil – D.Imman
Dandanakka is a raucous and riotous ode to T.Rajendar, something that only social media has been indulging in under a satirical garb, but with this song going mainstream! Anirudh leads...
Continue reading...Yevade Subramanyam (Music review), Telugu – Radhan & Ilayaraja
Nikhitha Gandhi’s super stylish vocals prop Beautiful zindagi‘s already funky tune, reminiscent of Lenka’s pop music style; the chorus in the song too adds tremendous value. The short title song...
Continue reading...Ayirathil Iruvar (Music review), Tamil – Bharadwaj
Ammanae has a fantastic 80s pop wrapper around an otherwise loud and full-throated conventional Amman song lyrics – very funky idea that plays on the dramatic difference between the lyrics...
Continue reading...Hawaizaada (Music review), Hindi – Rochak Kohli, Mangesh Dhakde, Ayushmann Khurrana & Vishal Bhardwaj
Rochak Kohli’s title song has a breezy enough tune and he sings it with the necessary panache too! Rochak gets, aptly, Mohit Chauhan and Javed Bashir, for Daak ticket, yet...
Continue reading...Shamitabh (Music review), Hindi – Ilayaraja
It doesn’t matter that Anand Milind had freemixed Ilayaraja’s 1980 Tamil number from the Rajinikanth starrer Johnny, in Angrakshak’s Dil mere udaas hai! The veteran remixes it himself in Sannata,...
Continue reading...Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju (Music review), Telugu – Gopi Sunder
Choti jindagi‘s rock sound is punchy and Hiranmayi’s child-woman vocals seems very apt for the racy tune, particularly for the main hook. Haricharan is equally good in the faux-qawali Varinche...
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