Pinjara – Bandar (Amit Trivedi) – Hindi: Good old vintage Amit Trivedi! But surprisingly, the one who steals the show is lyricist Sudip Sharma who lands some of the most poignant and provocative ...

In Walk of the Bride/Seetha Kalyana Vaibhogame, when Harish ends his opening and the music starts at the 2-minute mark, you know you are listening to an Agam song! The idea to fuse the Tamil wedding ...

A short playlist with only 8 songs, this week. Eight is my usual threshold to decide whether to have a Weeklies playlist or not, so this week passes the threshold 🙂 Urugudhu Urugudhu – Ace (Justin ...

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 ...

Tough choice, but here’s the top 10 of what I liked in Tamil film songs, in 2006. And yes, this is in the order of my preference – don’t want to hide under the ‘not-in-any-particular-order’ pretext.

Vaazhndhu Paaru, Iragey, Iragey Reprise, Ore Vaanam – Tourist Family (Sean Roldan) – Tamil: Besides Mugai Mazhai and Aachaley, there’s enough in Tourist Family’s soundtrack that makes this one of Sean ...

Maskara – Main Vaapas Aaunga (A R Rahman) – Hindi/Punjabi: There are so many surprises in this song! The first, of course, is the unusual melody that Rahman concocts. It has a very Punjabi musical ...

Prem Ki Leela, Mann Ki Dasha, Shyamal Sanware and Shubh Din Aayo – Krishnavataram (Prasad Sashte) – Hindi: There’s a sweeping Ismail Darbar feel all through the soundtrack of Krishnavataram! The ...

(Spotify’s playlist is missing one song – L ove Insurance Kompany’s version of Enakena, so I have added the original from Aakko) Title song – Do Deewane Seher Mein (Shreyas Puranik) – Hindi: It’s not ...

Tere Ishq Ne, Aakhri Ishq, Phir Se, Aari Aari, Jaan Se Guzarte Hain – Dhurandhar The Revenge (Shashwat Sachdev) – Hindi: In Tere Ishq Ne, Shashwat Sachdev wonderfully extracts another strand from Baba ...

Three weekends of back-to-back Milliblog Weeklies is a rarity these days 🙂 Good times for good music! Koi Naa – Bhool Chuk Maaf (Tanishk Bagchi & Gifty) – Hindi: A really sweet tune that gets better ...