Despite the ambient mood set by its ominous backgrounds, Bohemia’s I got the picture is mostly contrived – tries too hard to fit a Hindi track in an alien format…and fails. Neeraj Sridhar composes the very spritely Aaja Maahi and sings it along with Tulsi Kumar, but it’s in Salim Sulaiman that the soundtrack truly [...]

Have you ever heard of a whale that attained puberty? Samanja thimingilam offers that fascinating insight sorely missing from Animal Planet, complete with a sultry female voice. The bland reworking of a folk track, Yerunadhu; the Bombay theme inspired desolation in Yen saami; the even more ruminative Saamiya tholachutten; and the loud item number, Vada [...]

Yaar paarthathu may have well been composed by Director Vikraman himself – sounds exactly like all his countless, flat and jaded tracks and very unlike any Vijay Antony number. Vijay’s Adada and Devadhai desathil are surprisingly amateurish – pretty lame singing and tunes that are strangely rough round the edges. Inbamey tries a techno sound [...]

Veteran noise-maker Deva stages a comeback with Suriyan Satta Kalloori and strangely sounds exactly like his son, Srikanth Deva, in the fairly catchy Kalaai kaalai, though Udit Narayan seems bent on killing the language, as always. The modern, operatic take on Guru brahma is surprisingly decent while the two extraordinarily coarse gaana tracks – Kaadhal [...]