Halkat jawani is one of those songs that was conceptualized as an item song from scratch, with seemingly generous instructions to include all the elements of previous ‘hit’ item songs....
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Guzaarish (Music review), Hindi – Sanjay Leela Bhansali
The title song, with its sparse European sound has a charming tune, but Sau gram zindagi sounds labored, tune and lyrics-wise. Tera zikr is dialog camouflaged as tune and repetitively...
Continue reading...Action Replayy (Music review), Hindi – Pritam
Only Pritam’s punchy arrangements stand out in Baki main bhool gayi, but Daler’s Zor ka jhatka works big time as an addictive item song! Chhan ke mohalla and Dhak dhak...
Continue reading...Raavan (Movie review), Hindi – Maniratnam
If I were to sum up what went wrong in Raavan, it’d perhaps be, ‘Ramayan killed the Raavan star’. In other words, nothing is wrong with Raavan – the audience’s...
Continue reading...Raavanan (Music review – random thoughts), Tamil – A R Rahman
Considering I’m already adequately impressed with Raavan, this is merely a set of random thoughts. Veera (Beera) is the least Tamil sounding song of all, but Mustafa Kataone’s African gibberish...
Continue reading...Music review: Raavan (Hindi – A R Rahman)
Beera, in true Rahman style, takes a spirited, free-flowing life of its own; the energizing tune, completely fresh vocals of Mustafa Kutoane’s literally African sound and Vijay Prakash’s spritely rendition…it...
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