Thursday, July 5, 2018

Music Review (Tamil): Lakshmi

Music Review (Tamil): Lakshmi
Music Composer: Sam CS


Morakka Matrakka's comes off as a cheerful dance song shines in Uthra Unnikrishnan's vocals and Madhan Karky's smart wordplay. Sam CS engages the song with peppy arrangements and transitioned into local kuthu towards the end seamlessly.Sam CS churns out another easy winner in Aala Aala and it's a delight to listen Saindhavi and GV Prakash Kumar's vocals after a long hiatus. Chennai Strings and Cochin strings orchestra in the backdrop gives the sprawling dreamy soundscape especially when the fabulous string sections reaches crescendo towards the end.

Pappara Pappaa is the standard massy dance song with kuthu flavour and the pedestrian rhythm structure accompanied by tiresome percussions didn't help the song either. Praniti ably delivered the song in the vocal front but the song has very less to offer apart from the nifty work by Keba Jeremiah's in the guitar which gets overridden by the thumping percussions. Dreamy Chellama's Pallavi evokes Raja Rani's chillena but the track suffers from the pretty standard tune and forgettable arrangements. Saindhavi's vocals being the solo highlight of this techno laden track which fails to engage the listener. Nilladhey Nilladhey fares really well despite the soundscape is tailor-made for the motivational song which benefits largely from the Keba Jeremiah's guitar work and Sathyaprakash's superlative singing. The haunting soundscape along with the strains of Middle eastern flavour in the singer's vocals makes this one works.

Iraiva Iraiva is the racy angst track which easily reminds us of the similar type of compositions in Sangamam and Naadodigal. Sam CS's singing being the only takeaway from this standard and the track feels long and droning despite the energetic outlook.The instrumental track Rhythm of dance may work well along with the visuals but the mishmash of rap, techno sounds and Jecin George's guitar riffs comes across as the hodgepodge sound mix which fails to gives the fruitful results.

Verdict: Sam CS's score for the dance musical film works partially and the dance tracks didn't work as expected despite occasional brilliance in terms of arrangements.

My Rating: 7.5/10

Pick of the Album: Ala Ala, Morakka Mattraka, Nilladhey Nilladhey

P.S You can listen to the songs in  Saavn.

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