The 18th Screen Awards got announced some time back. And guess what, NO DABANGG! But seriously, this time the awards seem to have displayed a bit more fairness, though I did notice some absolutely outrageous ones. In the music category though, things were pretty much as expected – at least from the nomination list given. A [...]

If one were to ask me for my fav things about Bangalore, the first in the list would undoubtedly be its vibrant arts scene. And one of the loveliest and the most large scale showcases of the same, the Bengaluru Habba, kicks off its 9th edition today. From today to the 22nd of January various venues [...]

You can listen to the album here. The title song provides a sparkling start to Rangeele, the highlight of course being Kailash Kher’s singing and the lyrics, the title hook especially lilting. The arrangement is primarily acoustic guitar with other elements like sax and flute and some other exotic-sounding touches in places. Tu Kya Jaane [...]

So apparently the wonderful music from Season 1 of the cult show called The Dewarists isn’t over yet. Episode 8 of the show had featured Midival Punditz collaborating with Humble The Poet and Monica Dogra in the fab ambience of Goan beaches to produce No I D Required. As it turns out, that was not [...]

It was some time in 2005 that I got first introduced to this song Giriraja Sutha (named Giriraj Sudha by the artists on their CD et al) by my good friend and partner at Music Aloud, Praveen VR. The song turned out to be a landmark song in my life for multiple reasons. That was probably [...]

46 years, since A S Dileep Kumar was born. And 20 years, since he changed the way we perceive film music, with that score for Mani Ratnam – a combo which subsequently gifted some out-of-the-world music to us. Anyone who follows ARR’s music would undoubtedly agree that the sound of ARR’s music has changed over [...]

Two songs where the lyrics pretty much killed it for me were Sharminda Hoon and Phoolon Jaisi. The complexity of the former even in the Tamil version had taken some getting used to, but here it is back to square one, and Madhusree and Rahman on vocals also aren’t able to make up for the [...]

So here are the top 25 Bollywood songs of the year. As I said in the roundup before, it was quite tough to bring it down to 25, lot of favs having to be cut out and all that. In any case, below is the end product. In the format: Song Title (Movie) – Composer(s)|Singer(s)|Lyricist(s). [...]

Another year goes by. After having given us a lot of good music. Ya I know, I said the same about last year and the year before. But in 2011 the number of good songs was definitely more than in the previous years, I had such a painful time cutting the list down to the [...]

The clandestine guitar sounds provide the ideal base for an interestingly arranged opener Satrangiya Dil that the composer Gulraj Singh himself delivers, quite commendably. I totally loved the Nimminnina refrain! Song no. 2 is Kutiya Dil. And the lead vocalist, probably a choice prompted by his Delhi Belly repute, is Ram Sampath, with Prakriti Kakar [...]