Thuru Thuru – Happy Raj (Justin Prabhakaran) – Tamil: An otherwise conventionally sacharine-sweet melody by Justin that gets ...

Saathiya – Yudhra (Shankar Ehsaan Loy) – Hindi: More than the lead melody, it’s in two other instances that I realized the trio’s undeniable musical signature. One was the chorus (Prakriti Giri, ...

Party with the pei starts off with cleverly using dialogs from Chandramukhi and settles into a droning tune. Maya maya is straight out of Rahman’s 2 decade old faux-village sound, ...

Of the three songs by Sharib-Toshi, ironically, the only song that works is their recreation of Jawad Ahmed’s original, Samjhawan that is spruced up well, with engaging vocals by Arijit ...

Pyar ki, by Toshi and Sharib Sabri has one goal – make a foot-tapping song; it delivers amply, with a catchy hook and easy-singalong—bordering on the dumb—lines to go with ...

Onnurangi‘s frothy melody is Bijibal’s trademark, particularly that complex anupallavi, and of course, the interludes and backgrounds. Lovely listen, thanks also to Vineeth Srinivasan’s fantastic ...

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 ...

Title song – Ek Din (Ram Sampath) – Hindi: It’s so good to see Ram Sampath composing for a film again, after what feels like eons. It also sounds very unlike Ram Sampath’s body of work and is Arijit’s ...

Unlike last year, where I felt the entire music scene, across languages, was unexciting, this year was slightly different. The Hindi film (and TV series) music was a total slog! Dismal is the word ...

13 songs this week. All the songs are available on YouTube, while the Spotify playlist is missing one song, Puthuthayorithu, from Iratta, the Malayalam film. Kashni – The Marigold Project (Akshay & IP ...

Hum Aapke Bina – Sikandar (Pritam) – Hindi: While the overall soundtrack by Pritam in Sikandar is underwhelming, this one song salvages things, and that too mainly because of Arijit Singh. Edhira?