Songs and credits at the end.
Aalaporaan Thamizhan goes through multiple shifts, all within the familiar ARR realm. Some of those segments work – like the mellow portion headed by Pooja AV – but in its entirety the song is all over the place. Mersal Arasan works better; the tune is catchier, but once again there is too much happening in the song for anything to really stick but the occasional bits and bobs. Maacho features two fine vocalists – Sid Sriram and Shweta Mohan – and they go about their part well. The song unfortunately does not live up to their singing standards; Manomani’s sarangi in the first interlude is the only pleasantly surprising element in the whole affair. Compared to the rest of the soundtrack, Nee Thaanae comes across as the more appealing track despite largely riding on a rather ordinary melody and once again being riddled with déjà vu inducing sounds. The singing by Shreya Ghoshal is exquisite, and the song’s clear highlight is the classical-flavoured segment that surrounds Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt’s mohan veena interludes.
Mersal. Short and unremarkable soundtrack from A R Rahman.
Music Aloud Rating: 2.5/5
Top Recos: Nee Thaanae, Mersal Arasan
Musician Credits
1. Maacho
Vocals: Sid Sriram, Shweta Mohan
2. Mersal Arasan
Vocals: G V Prakash Kumar, Naresh Iyer, Shranya Srinivas, Vishwaprasadh Arranged by : T R Krishna Chetan
3. Neethanae
Vocals: A R Rahman, Shreya Ghoshal
4. Aalaporaan Thamizhan
Vocals: Kailash Kher, Sathya Prakash, Deepak, Pooja AV
Music : A R Rahman
Lyrics : Vivek
Musician
Mohan Veena : Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Flute : Naveen Kumar
Guitars : Keba Jeremiah, Kabuli
Nadaswaram : Thirumurthy
Saz & Mandolin : Subani
Sitar : Kishore
Sarangi: Manonmani
Trumpet : Ben
Indian Rhythm : T Raja, Kumar, Lakshmi Narayanan, Raju, Vedha, Neelakandan, Hariprasad, Ranjith
Tabla : Sai Shravanam
Thavil : M VenkateshSubramanian, Kaviraj, S Sundar, Purushothaman
Kombu : Alex, Kali, Shankar, Viji
Backing Vocals
Deepak, Nivas, Santhosh Hariharan, Shenbagaraj, Diwakar, Veena Murali, Maalavika, Deepthi Suresh, Soundarya, Anu Subbhaiya, Vishnupriya, Yaamini, Aishwarya A Kumar, Shilpa Natarajan, Nadisha B.Thomas, Roshini Sharon, Sharanya Gopinath, Shilvi Sharon, Preethy Christopher.
Live Strings : Chennai Strings Orchestra / Sunshine Orchestra
Conducted by V J Srinivasamurthy, R K Prabhakar Recorded at A M Studios
Vocal Arrangement : Arjun Chandy
Sound Engineers
Panchathan Record Inn, Chennai: Suresh Permal, Karthik Sekaran, T R Krishna Chetan, Srinidhi Venkatesh, Jerry Vincent, Santhosh Dhayanidhi, Vinay Sridhar, Ishaan Chhabra
AM Studios, Chennai : S Sivakumar, Kannan Ganpat, Krishnan Subramanian, Pradeep, Manoj, Srinath
AR Studios, Mumbai: Nitish R Kumar, Dilshaad Shabbir Sheikh
Additional Programming : T R Krishna Chetan, Santhosh Dayanidhi, Kumaran Sivamani, Hari Dafusia
Mixed by T R Krishna Chetan
Mastered By Suresh Permal
Mastered For iTunes S Sivakumar
Musicians Coordinators : Noell James, Vijay Iyer, TM Faizuddin
Musicians Fixer : Samidurai R
