The snazzy, racy arrangements of Meesamunna manmadhuda produce an illusion of it being good, but the tune is pedestrian. Shirisha is a considerably better bet – massy melody and great...
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Eno Onthara (Music review), Kannada – V.Harikrishna
Gandu makkalu cruises smoothly enough with its foot-tapping, but oft-repeated tune, except when it stumbles upon childish interludes. Dilkhush is a lovely melody; very catchy, with simple, lovely arrangements, while...
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: Ninaithale Inikkum (Tamil – Vijay Antony)
The musical highlight of the thoroughly enjoyable Malayalam original of this film, Classmates, was Vineet Srinivasan’s rendition of Alex Paul’s tune in Ende khalbile. While this soundtrack does not offer...
Continue reading...Music review: Drona (Telugu – Anoop Rubens)
There’s a particularly detached way Ranjith sings Yem maayam chesave that is terribly addictive – the catchy, mindless and predictable tune works really well that you hum the first line...
Continue reading...Hare Ram (Telugu, Mickey J Meyer)
The two moody, thematic pieces – Jairam jairam and the theme music – are just marginally involving. Mickey’s vocals in the pop-induced, 80s style Nasha is considerably better. The proceedings...
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