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Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly, new music playlist. Week 278: YouTube | Spotify Back after a week’s break. A monster playlist this time – 35 songs! Probably the highest in ...
Heropanti (Music review), Hindi – Sajid-Wajid, Mustafa Zahid & Bilal Saeed and Manj Musik Barring Kausar Munir’s use of ‘kathai* aankhen’, Rabba is pleasant, but contrived, with Mohit Chauhan ...
Milliblog Annual Music round-up 2011 As usual, let me reiterate that the lists here are in order of preference – they are not random lists. That cleared, I noticed a trend in the 5 languages ...
Kohila ‘s tune is instantly likeable and pleasant; Leon’s music sounds like an significantly spruced-up version of early-Rahman, particualrly the veena usage and the Kohila call-out reminding one of ...
Sharib and Toshi’s Kabhi jo baadal is Bhatt-family style sweeping balladry – Arijit’s version is the best, while Shreya’s pathos version pales in comparison. Mika composed Full jhol is annoyingly bad, ...
Pottala Muttaye – Thalaivan Thalaivii (Santhosh Narayanan) – Tamil: Santhosh Narayanan’s heady mix of Thavil and Nadaswaram works like a charm here, along with his own singing and in particular, ...
It’s difficult to decide what is more cringe-worthy in Eden Garden – Raja’s music or the bizarre lyrics that perhaps wanted to refer to Garden of Eden, but ends up talking about Kolkata’s cricket ...
Looks like the makers of the film were happy with the mere fact that they have Kannada industry’s top pair and gave Hari a free hand to whatever he wanted. The result is that barring this one song by ...
The music of Vivah is like a 70s time capsule – dated? Yes. Pleasant? Sort of! While Mujhe haq hai & Do anjaane have that quaint charm, O jiji & Jai gauri are ingratiating. Milan abhi is ho-hum.
Therikkudhu masss is a curious melange; it has likeable pieces like the thavil base being used in two different backdrops, but as a whole, it’s bewildering. Premgi’s remix has its work cut-out and ...
Shambu sutaya must be most frenetically paced Ganesh bhajan ever, with a detour in sound for the sake of dance that is mighty pulsating! Shankar Mahadevan and Vishal Dadlani ace the track, in their ...
Citylights (Music review), Hindi – Jeet Ganguli Muskurane is a stunningly beautiful combo – the lyrics, Arijit’s soaring vocals and the soorthing arrangement! Mohammed Irfan’s slower Unplugged version ...