It’s that time of the year again when I spend a LOT of time rehearing the songs I enjoyed all through the year and make lists! So, here we go again – this is the 17th year of my making a multilingual ...
There are so many surprises in this song! The first, of course, is the unusual melody that Rahman concocts. It has a very ...
Aim lagaa‘s Rikshaw mix has a particularly nice retro’ish touch that sounds notably better than the plain version – rapper Blaaze handles the singing and composing parts admirably well. Bombay ...
Watch the movie on (with English subtitles). Putham Pudhu Kaalai offers the rare chance of watching four, what they used to call, A-Center Tamil films (and one B-Center Tamil film) – short films, of ...
Tere Ishq Ne, Aakhri Ishq, Phir Se, Aari Aari, Jaan Se Guzarte Hain – Dhurandhar The Revenge (Shashwat Sachdev) – Hindi: In Tere Ishq Ne, Shashwat Sachdev wonderfully extracts another strand from Baba ...
Hum To Tere Hi Liye The – O’ Romeo (Vishal Bhardwaj) – Hindi: A tune that screams ‘Vishal Bhardwaj’ in the softest way possible! Ankur Mukherjee’s pensive guitar is as much a lead in the song as ...
A humongous playlist, for Milliblog Weeklies’ standards – 28 songs this week! Title song – Ek Deewane ki Deewaniyat (Kaushik-Guddu) – Hindi: When the ‘Tu hi armaan’ line explodes, guitars blazing the ...
PS: Yes, I was wrong about the diminishing marginal utility part in my review. In hindsight, after Kaatru Veliyidai, it seems like a one-off middling work from the duo.
Dil Ka Kya – Metro…In Dino (Pritam) – Hindi: The way Pritam lands each word in ‘Dil Ka Kya’ is just one of the many charming part so this lovely song! Raghav Chaitanya’s expressive vocals and ...
Kya Kamaal Hai – Main Vaapas Aaunga (A R Rahman) – Hindi: It’s very easy to offer the song’s title itself as a reaction to this amazing song – Kya Kamaal Hai! Rahman’s gorgeous experiment deftly mixes ...
Let me start with a confession. Despite having been a massive fan of Ilayaraja ever since I remember, I heard ‘Jotheyali’ from the 1980 Kannada film Geetha…for the first time in my life…in 2008. Yes, ...
Qayde Se – Metro…In Dino (Pritam) – Hindi: After the release of the film’s full soundtrack last week, here comes another song! Is it part of a ‘Side B’, given that the earlier album was titled ‘Side ...