Milliblog Weeklies, Week 277 – June 15, 2025 – Milliblog!

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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 Niladri Kumar’s Zitar make it all the more engaging. Both Zamaana Lage and now Dil Ka Kya fit perfectly within the ‘Metro’ scheme of music, despite being 18 years apart!

Barbaad – Saiyaara (Rishabh Kant/The Rish) – Hindi: Director Mohit Suri’s stamp is all over the song though there’s quite a bit of Mithoon too. Composer Rishabh Kant a.k.a The Rish does well with letting Jubin Nautiyal’s dreamy vocals do much of the hard work while adding Saaz, Sarangi and electric guitars to the right effect in the backgrounds. The title song, released last week, didn’t quite work for me, though.

Nazara – Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan (Vishal Mishra) – Hindi: Vishal composes, writes and sings a gorgeous ballad that sounds straight out of the Magnasound ‘Everlasting Love Songs’ cassette series.

Jillelama – Kiss (Jen Martin) – Tamil: The Jen Martin-Kavin combo continuessuccessfully! This is an easy-on-the-ear, foot-tapping that just works effortlessly. Priya Mali, in particular, is very good with the singing in the anupallavi, ably aided by Adithya RK.

Eduda Bottle – Love Marriage (Sean Roldan) – Tamil: The first of three songs this week that has a distinct Dhanush vibe! While director Mysskin does surprisingly well as a singer, it is lyricist Mohan Rajan who is the song’s hero. I laughed out aloud with how smoothly the ‘Anyway eValum nammaLa thirumbi kooda paakkala’ line lands 🙂

Oru Thalattu – Paramasivan Fathima (Deepan Chakravarthy) – Tamil: Imagine Ilayaraja’s legendary song, ‘VaLaiyosai’ from Sathya (1988) to be a stalk of sugarcane. I know that’s a difficult, specific ask, but please bear with me and imagine. Now, imagine that you take that stalk and insert it into the machine used by roadside sugarcane juice vendors. The result is this song. It feels like composer Deepan Chakravarthy (is he the same famous playback singer from the 1980s… of ‘Poongathavae Thaazhthiravaa’ fame from NizhalgaL in 1980?) decided to methodically deconstruct the Sathya song and concoct his own material out of it. The result is a good enough listen (thanks largely to the singers, Saindhavi and Sreekanth Hariharan) even though its charms lie more in trying to decipher how the deconstruction and reconstruction process was done 🙂

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, Sublahshini’s vocals.

Feeling Paatu – DNA (Sahi Siva) – Tamil: While I miss Justin Prabhakaran’s music in a Nelson Venkatesan film (considering their past 3 film’s musical output – Oru NaaL Koothu, Monster, and Farhana), I thought his novel attempt at gathering 5 different composers for 5 songs like director Vasanth’s Yai! Nee Romba Azhaga Irukey (2002) would produce interesting music. Sadly, besides the Sreekanth Hariharan-composed KaNNe Kanave, the only other song that stood out for me was Sahi Siva’s Feeling Paatu. Here’s hoping that Nelson goes back to Justin for his next film.

Pippi Pippi Dum Dum Dum – Kuberaa (Devi Sri Prasad) – Telugu: The second of three songs that has the Dhanush vibe. No, not the tune that has DSP’s trademark, but the lyrics by Chaitanya Pingali (handled brilliantly by Indravathi Chauhan)! And this one stars Dhanush too, incidentally! DSP’s rhythm powers this song to become an easy earworm.

Theenalam – Aabhyanthara Kuttavaali (Christy Joby) – Malayalam: There’s a lot of Santhosh Narayanan in this song by Christy Joby, while also occasionally alluding to Harris Jayaraj’s iconic, ‘Engeyum pogaamal dhinam veettileye nee vendum’ and ‘Yaarenum mani kettaal adhai solla kooda theriyaadhe’ 🙂 But the song settles into a rhythmic comfort zone that closes the pallavi beautifully. Sooraj Santhosh’s lead vocals is perfectly on point.

Sambrani Penthiri – Vyasana Sametham Bandhu Mithradhikal (Ankit Menon) – Malayalam: There is something very-Dhanush about the enjoyably rhythmic sound (particularly that humming at the end of the pallavi), but Ankit goes beyond that familiarity, aided brilliantly by Adheef Muhamed’s lead vocals. Very catchy song that retains the catchiness even in the anupallavi really well.

Bangle Bangari – Ekka (Charan Raj) – Kannada: I associate Anthony Dasan with a certain kind of film song and given that he seems to have overdone that a lot already, I wasn’t expecting much here. But Charan Raj has a captivatingly catchy melody in store that even Anthony Dasan’s predictable voice cannot drown. Charan’s measured rhythm keeps the song hugely entertaining.

Jaadugari – Siddhant Bhosle, ft. Maahi (Indipop/Hindi) – A very Sachin-Jigar’ish, Vishal-Shekhar’ish, Salim-Sulaiman’ish (yes, all three/six!) composition by Siddhant Bhosle that shines in Maahi’s warm, very likeable singing.

En Kadhaa – Sid Sriram (Indipop/Tamil): Sid launches straight into the song with ‘Kaathirundha en kannula eppa vandhu servaayo nee’ that almost sounds like a line from the end of the pallavi. The actual start of the song, or at least what sounds like the song’s actual opening line, ‘Nethu paartha paarva’ comes up only around the 25th second. But playing around with the grammar makes the song more interesting. It’s a lush, searing tune with sparse instrumentation (even that is tastefully done) that gains tremendously from Sid’s extraordinary singing skill and voice.

The Silence That Remains (Mokshamu Galada) – Arrival of the Ethereal (Agam) – Indipop: The first single from Agam’s long-awaited 3rd album after ‘The Inner Self Awakens’ (2012) and ‘A Dream to Remember’ (2017). The familiar strains of Thyagaraja’s Saramati raaga based composition get a jolt of electricity in the central one-and-a-half-minute musical exposition, even as Harish Sivaramakrishnan magnificently holds forth with his stupendous vocals! Cannot wait to listen to the whole album.

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