Music
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This is, absolutely, without doubt, the best performance of The Beatles’ Hey Jude I have ever heard. ’nuff said. Hat tip: To Nithya, who posted the link on her facebook page and alerted me to this gem.
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I saw this interesting post at Shouts and Murmurs the other day. Basically, it was a tag where one had to pick a song or two to suit a bunch of situations. It seemed interesting, so I gave it a shot. Here goes: Rules of the tag: Various situations are given. You have to come
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No, I still don’t like Himes-bhai‘s voice. Although I will admit that the occasional Mika number works for me – Mauja Hi Mauja from Jab We Met being an example. This post is mostly about A. R. Rehman. Not his singing voice (which I’m not very fond of but works well for some songs), but
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Okay, so here’s what happened. I was channel surfing this weekend and found that my viewing choices boiled down to: Die Hard 2 – The one where Bruce Willis fights off a bunch of terrorists in an airport Lizzie McGuire – The Disney TV series, not the movie version And, put your drink down before
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Duet is not the best film K. Balachander has made. A remake of Cyrano de Bergerac, with assorted additional nonsense and a dash of Alibaba thrown in for good measure, the movie never really manages to get itself out of the way and reach the heights it could. It is, however, one of the most
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Yet another gem from Ilaiyaraja, from the movie Nenjathai Killadhe. The picturization involves Mohan and Suhasini jogging together, and the song plays in the background. What’s amazing is how much of the visualization has crept into the piece itself. For one thing, the singers (SPB and Janaki) sound like they’re shivering in the cold morning
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Beautiful, beautiful song. Written by Kannadasan, composed by Ilaiyaraja and sung by K J Yesudas. One of the greatest songs of all time. To me, it’s one of the finest examples of pathos expressed in a song. Yesudas’ voice is perfectly suited to this sort of mood. However, what I didn’t realize until a friend
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Another sub-genre of film songs that I am very fond of is – for want of a better term – the relay race song. These are songs where one singer falters somewhere in the middle for whatever reason, and someone else picks up from where he/she left off and completes it. Here’s my top three
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