Suman Sridhar’s retro-style opener to Mona Darling rides on her splendid singing, with an awesome hook. The song shifts mood suddenly with a wonderfully waltz’y—and Ilayaraja’ish!—tone, led by Shreya Ghoshal,...
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Sairat (Music review), Marathi – Ajay-Atul
Mark Graham’s strings and woodwinds section opens Yad lagla in an astonishingly beautiful way. The melody is gorgeously tender as if trying to extricate itself from the nuanced and mesmerizing...
Continue reading...Nilkanth Master (Music review), Marathi – Ajay-Atul
Vande mataram‘s recreation by Ajay-Atul is spell-binding! They take the good old, familiar verses and make an anthem out of it all over again! Vishwajeet Borwankar, Ajay Gogavle and Rahul...
Continue reading...Brothers (Music review), Hindi – Ajay-Atul
Brothers Anthem, as the name indicates, holds an anthemic sound and Vishal Dadlani powers it well, even though it’s the pulsating orchestration that stands out! The composing duo repackage their...
Continue reading...PK (Music review), Hindi – Ajay-Atul, Shantanu Moitra, Ankit Tiwari
Swaroop Khan is in his elements delivering a spirited Rajasthani track for Ajay-Atul, Tharki chokro, that seems content remaining within its genre. Nanga punga has a catchy, childish ring to...
Continue reading...Lai Bhaari (Music review), Marathi – Ajay-Atul
Ajay sounds a lot like Sukhwinder Singh in the booming Mauli mauli, a captivating prayer form that the duo has already mastered! Kunal Ganjawala rules over New nava tarana; the...
Continue reading...Bol Bachchan (Music review), Hindi – Himesh Reshammiya & Ajay-Atul
The title song, despite the stupidity in lyrics, is a surprisingly catchy tune; Big B towers over others with his vocals. Jab se dekhi hai has an engaging tune and...
Continue reading...Agneepath (Music review), Hindi – Ajay-Atul
Deva shree Ganesha plays out in filmy-frenzy bhajan format, but the duo crank up the creativity in the interludes, and the backgrounds. Chikni chameli turns out to be average fare...
Continue reading...My Friend Pinto (Music review), Hindi – Ajay-Atul, Hitesh Sonik, Shamir Tandon & Kavita Seth
Barring Kunal’s enthusiastic vocals, Dhinchak zindagi follows the standard musicals template. Kunal gets great company from lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya in Do kabootar, but the tune continues to seem bland, expect...
Continue reading...Singham (Music review), Hindi – Ajay-Atul
Sukhwinder Singh’s title song is emphatic and very South Indian-style hero-intro’ish! The remix is decently functional too, surprisingly! And, about the other two (only) tracks, there is nothing fundamentally wrong...
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