Balma gets better progressively, and Sunidhi joining Rekha lends it a lively banter-style fun. Rekha owns Hello Hello in her inimitable style! The song’s riotous tune, raucous chorus, and Rekha...
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Milliblog Monthlies – The vibrant music of Vishal Bhardwaj
Episode 3 of Milliblog Monthlies, featuring 25 songs by Vishal Bhardwaj. Let’s start with this song, shall we? Now, if I did not know who composed this song, my guess...
Continue reading...Rangoon (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj
The women in Rangoon seem to be having raucous fun, while the men either brood or sing jubilant praises of the woman! Sunidhi enthusiastically swears (in) Bloody hell, lamenting the...
Continue reading...Talvar (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj
Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab is the soul of Insaaf. She brings her best known trait—breathy vocals that rocked her cover versions of Pakistan’s and the sub-continent’s iconic classics—to add stupendous...
Continue reading...Drishyam (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj
Kya pataa is the kind of song Vishal used to hand over to Suresh Wadkar. Then, he started singing them himself. Now, he gets Arijit to sing this whispery, ambient...
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...Dedh Ishqiya (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj
Vishal, thankfully, does not sing Dil ka mizaaj, like Matru’s Khamaka; he gets Rahat to do the singing, resulting in pure, dulcet magic! Rahat’s other song, Zabaan jale hai, à...
Continue reading...Music review: Ishqiya (Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj)
The mesmerizingly lilting and vaudevillian Dil to bachcha hai is reminiscent of the Raj Kapoor era, but a more pronounced inspiration seems to be Webber’s Cats tune, Memories – the...
Continue reading...Music review: Kaminey (Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj)
The surf guitar-loaded DhanTeNan is no doubt reminiscent of Dick Dale’s legendary track, Misirlou (more popularly referred to as the theme from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction), but beyond broad, genre-influences,...
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