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 ...

After a week’s break – 16 songs this week. The YouTube playlist has all the songs, while Spotify is missing just one – the short song from Sapta Sagaradaache Ello. Mann – The Yellow Diary ...

Raghu Dixit’s Break The Rules is an uptempo song with a neat ‘Mohana murali’ semi-classical interlude. Sunona Sunaina has a funky, likeable bounce and Rahul Nambiar’s singing makes it better. Thaman’s ...

Here we go again! Another year ends and another annual music playlists compilation! This is the 16th year of my making such playlists, on Milliblog. I visited my birth town, Trichy, after some 30 odd ...

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 ...

Rahein Na Rahein Hum, Dilbar Ki Aankhon Ka – Thamma (Sachin-Jigar) – Hindi: Rahein Na Rahein Hum has Sachin-Jigar traversing Pritam zone, much like how they traversed A R Rahman zone for Pardesiya in ...

Tum Mere Na Huye – Thamma (Sachin-Jigar) – Hindi: A very, very obvious attempt at riding on the composing duo’s own ‘Aaj Ki Raat’, which the composing duo had already mined with other singers in the ...

Ul Jalool Ishq – Gustaakh Ishq (Vishal Bhardwaj) – Hindi: Vishal Bardwaj’s music, Gulzar’s lyrics, sung by Shilpa Rao and Papon, and the song totally lives up to all those people’s immense standards!

A humongous playlist, for Milliblog Weeklies’ standards – 28 songs this week! Title song – Ek Deewane ki Deewaniyat (Kaushik-Guddu) – Hindi: When the ‘Tu hi armaan’ line explodes, guitars blazing the ...

A bumper musical week with 21 songs! Tu Pehli Tu Aakhri – The Ba***ds Of Bollywood (Shashwat Sachdev) – Hindi: Shashwat produces a considerably better second single from Aryan’s debut show (than ...

Back after a three-week break. Reason? Health (for those not following me on Twitter)! So, a massive playlist of 21 songs! Bheegi Saree and Danger – Param Sundari (Sachin-Jigar) – Hindi: Just like how ...

Okka chinukulo is every bit the lush Shaan melody that he often composes in Malayalam. The tune’s build-up is fantastic and the soft, harmonium-layered percussion harmonium is thoroughly enticing, as ...