Rowthiram Music Review

The purpose of a music launch before the release of a film is to create expectations on how the movie would be. Songs from `Rowthiram', composed by newcomer Prakash Nikki, serve the purpose subtly...

Vandhaan Vendraan Music Review

A former associate to Mani Ratnam, Kannan should obviously have an ear for music. And it was visible (or should we say audible) in his first two ventures-'Jayamkondan' and 'Kanden Kadhalai'...

Yuvan Yuvathi Music Review

Director GNR Kumaravelan and music composer Vijay Antony seem to share a good rapport and that is evident from their first outing `Ninaithalae Inikkum'. The two have now come together for `Yuvan Yuvathi' starring Bharath and Reema Kallingal in lead roles...

Vaagai Sooda Vaa Music Review

We must say that Director Sargunam has a nose for music. His first venture 'Kalavani' had songs by S S Kumaran that topped the charts. So expectations are high on his next 'Vaagai Sooda Vaa'. The movie has music by newcomer Gibran...

Suriya Nagaram Music Review

The music composer is new. And the cast and crew are lesser-known. So, it was with less expectation we started listening to songs from 'Soorya Nagaram'. But debutant composer Fen Viallee breaks all our preconceived perceptions in the first song itself, and ensures that we tune our ears to the remaining songs without any questions...

180 Music Review

Jayendra, a popular ad film maker, is all set to make his Kollywood debut with `Nootrenbadhu'. The movie stars Siddharth, Priya Anand and Nithya Menon in lead roles...

Doo Music Review

Two music directors who work together and bring out their best? There are good examples in Bollywood and Tollywood and when it comes to Tamil, no prizes for guessing the renowned pairs, Viswanathan-Ramamurthy and Shankar-Ganesh...

Venghai Music Review

Listening to an album composed by Devi Sri Prasad is like tasting international cuisine by sitting inside an Indian restaurant. The music composer is a master in adding desi touch to western sounds, and it was more visible (or audible) in 'Singam', his previous venture in the company of director Hari...

Maaveeran Music Review

There is one common thing between Andhra's food and its films- spiciness. And 'Magadheera' is the mother of all masala films the Telugu desam had ever produced...

Avan Ivan Music Review

It takes either lIlayaraja or Yuvan Shankar Raja to compose music for a Bala film. Or at least this is the trend from `Sethu' till `Avan Ivan' and let's hope this would continue to give us good music...

Ko Music Review

Harris Jayaraj who has given a lot of hits in Tamil films is back with `Ko'. The music composer who is understated when it comes to attitude is yet to strike with his work again; `Ko's music is vivacious with different genres of romantic songs, hip hop and nevertheless even poetic...

Kadhal 2 Kalyanam Music Review

A movie based on a RJ with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja is sure a double delight for music-lovers. Yuvan's mastery in rendering catchy Western tunes is widely known. He has yet again showed why he is admired by the youngsters in `Kadhal 2 Kalyanam'...

Vaanam Music Review

'Manmadhan', `Vallavan', `Silambattam'. It's nothing short of a music festival whenever Yuvan Shankar Raja joins hands with his good friend STR. The duo has struck gold once again in `Vaanam', with the film's music album having the potential to become the hit of the year...

Mappillai Music Review

Mappillai, is the remake of superstar's classic movie apparently with the same name. Let's see this new version of `Mappillai' has the touch of music where the old version had...

Seedan Music Review

Not all music albums are special. But Seedan is one, since it is the 50th film of Dheena. The music composer, director Subramaniam Siva and Dhanush came together before for `Thiruda Thirudi' and the number `Manmadharasa.' went on to become a craze among youngsters...

Ayyan Music Review

Ilaiyaraaja has been a prominent composer of film music in south Indian cinema since the late 1970s, he integrated folk lyricism (in Tamil) and introduced broader Western musical sensibilities into the south Indian musical mainstream...

Kanden Music Review

The film introduces a new music director Vijay Ebenezer who was an associate of Harris Jayaraj. Vijay Ebanesar was an evangelical composer debuting in films. Though his background is very alien to his present job, Vijay has learned things fast. All the songs of `Kanden' are very filmy and have no trace of his religious music...

Easan Music Review

`Easan' is the forthcoming film directed by Sasikumar who has a commendable fan following. The movie set in the backdrops of Chennai has Samuthirakani playing the lead role. Vaibhav, Abinaya and Aparna play other pivotal roles...

Manmadhan Ambu Music Review

`Manmadhan Ambu' starring Kamal, Trisha, Madhavan, Sangeetha and others is going to be the last big release of 2010. There may be more surprises in the cast when the film releases in December. The movie is expected t be a modern hip romantic comedy with European feel...

Engeyum Kadhal Music Review

`Engeyum Kadhal' is a breezy romance written and directed by Prabhu Deva. It is produced by Kalpathi S. Agoram. It stars `Jayam' Ravi and Hansika Motwani. The film started with the title `Ich' but was finally changed to `Engeyum Kadhal'. Music of the film is by Harris Jayaraj. The songs were composed as early as the Christmas season in 2009. Prabhu Deva and Harris Jayaraj had gone to Sydney, Austr