Why don’t singers realize they are only as good as the tunes composed for them? The so-called Indi-pop singers, in particular! Getting a perennially sidelined composing duo is the first blunder. Granted, Sajid Wajid scored big time in Partner, but given their track record of non-descript and uninteresting music, Telugu pop singer Smita should’ve guessed [...]

Anu Malik not only has Sukhwinder contorting his overused vocals but also wastes Shilpa Rao in the pathetic Main sajda. The title song is even worse – Adnan sounding as uninterested as he can. Krishna’s Soniya aaja ni takes the album further down – one tedious experience! Thankfully, the album is nearly saved by the [...]

Hara hara sambo has a rather likeable rhythm but a strictly average tune made lively by Jassie Gift’s enthusiastic vocals. Krishna krishna and Nenjil aathaadi are plain annoying signifying the composer’s early, massy and mundane compositions. Even Neenda mounam and Pudhiya paravai ondru are strongly reminiscent of Vidyasagar’s late 90s melodies, shorn of the mature [...]

Nope, this post is not about music/ movies, for a change! Given the number of blogs springing in India every day, it seems to me that blogs, as a medium is being taken seriously just recently. More celebs are blogging and they’re making news for airing their opinion. The earlier model was such that they [...]

Four of Yuvan Shankar Raja’s tried and tested tunes from the Telugu hit, Adavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule make the cut in this soundtrack. Nee chumu and Mandaara with Rajesh Krishnan, sounding very much like Mano and SPB are expectedly neat. Hey baby continues to annoy while Minugu fails due to Gurukiran and Apoorva’s rendition. But [...]

Given the starkly folk influence in the film’s theme, it’s no surprise to hear Vidyasagar dipping into traditional villupaattu-like tunes for Kattipudikkum karadiya and Kodaangi vandhirukken. Both are steeped in extremely familiar folk tunes, but with utterly disjoint structures. But Potta kuruviyo is vintage Vidyasagar with a lovely melody wrapped in a pleasing, mod orchestration. [...]

Neeraj Shridhar’s buoyant vocals, rapper Indee’s (surprisingly credited!) bloody catchy hook and Pritam’s overall arrangements make Aai paapi (Tu hai meri soniye) absolutely scintillating. This is one heck of an exuberant track! Bakhuda tumhi ho too works big time – Atif’s magical vocals at work beautifully here, along with Alka Yagnik’s, besides the soulful tune [...]

Dasaavathaaram is a movie experience meant for people who are familiar with Kamal Hasan and his body of work. If you are not one of them, this exhausting exercise in multi-tasking may be laughably silly. This may be the very first movie on chaos theory/ butterfly effect in India and the basic premise works quite [...]

Sedate tunes in Challa and Ballo, with sweet accordion phrases in the latter, offer an interesting start to the album. Karachi valie and Maen bolia are conventionally rock’ish, however. Ode to Bandra, Tu avin Bandra is one for the Mumbaiyas, while the usually energetic Pagdi sambhal gets a somber twist with a roll call of [...]

Talli is a sad attempt at aping the Pritam sound, while Karle gunah’s Punjabi reggaeton is best left alone to Anu himself. Yeh nazar, with its 80s pop style is the only track that’s reasonably listenable but the confused Latino mix in Shut up, clubbed with age-old Dr.Alban rhythms is painful – Anu’s own singing [...]