The composer joins Sayonara in his usually styled techno title song – groovy tune with catchy hooks! Hosadondu hesaru too is pretty neat, with pleasant reggae influences and excellent vocals by Karthik and Shwetha. Joshua reworks his Appavi number, Vaada vinmele adequately in the item number Aaja nachre, while Karthik’s haunting techno-melody Naanu eega is [...]

Achu vellam sounds like an unpolished version of Poo’s Sivakasi rathiye as the poor singing and jumbled tune doesn’t work at any level. Kadhal jodi onnu, with its eclectic orchestration even in a folk milieu is definitely better, while the composer gets back in the game beautifully in the joyous duet, Kannakkol thiruda, sung by [...]

A R Rahman recently composed theme songs for 2 states – the first was for Gujarat, scored for Gujarat’s Golden Jubilee celebrations and the second was the theme song composed for World Classical Tamil Conference. Now, what would be the shelf life of such songs, composed for specific occasions? In case of Bharatbala’s Vande Mataram [...]