Mookuthi Amman (Tamil): Girishh Gopalakrishnan: Aadi Kuththu, Bhagavathi Baba, Paarthane, Saami Kulasami: After Marina, Girishh Gopalakrishnan's track record is middling and at best erratic. Mookuthi Amman is the major project and the composer gets a pretty solid soundtrack which easily surpasses the expectations.
Aadi Kuththu rides mainly on LR Eshwari's singing which evocates nostalgic soundscape associated with Amman movies and Tamil industry kind of missing this genre for a long time. Composer stuns with Paarthene and title mentions specifically as Amman song. The lovely Carnatic compositions sound to be based on Purya Dhanasri is sung wonderfully by Jairam Balasubramanian and the rhythmic Kanjira base in the arrangements makes this one best song in the soundtrack. Saami Kulasami also features pretty enticing arrangements and the folk base in the arrangements is a laudable effort from the composer. The composer throws in brilliant plucked strings sounds and Kalyan's solo violin comes together wonderfully while the only grouse being Deva as a singer. Aruna Sairam is outstanding in the energetic dark retake on Aigiri Nandhini and the composer throws in some electronic techno sounds in the middle but the classical vocalist steals the show with her spectacular performance. Girishh ends the soundtrack with the enjoyable fun track Bhagavathi Baba which benefits immensely from Pa Vijay's comical lyrics and definitely Anthony Daasan's quirky singing.
A Cat's tale (Tamil): Vikram Raghavan: Vikram Raghavan'e classical take on the famous Vellai Nirathoru Poonai by Subramanya Bharathi and sets the tune with the Ragamalika is a pleasing experience especially the lovely video associated with the song.
Naa Haaduve Nimagagiye (Kannada): Giridhar Divan: Naa Haaduve's simple charming melody works effortlessly especially with Anuradha Bhat's vocals. Giridhar Divan kept the arrangements serene with Josy Alappuzha's flute leading the show. The song evokes the memories of numerous Malayalam melodies.
Andhaghaaram: Pradeep Kumar: Suzhalum Iravil: Suzhalum Iravil is a quintessential Pradeep Kumar number with the sprawling soundscape propped up by haunting melody. The unconventional tune is backed up mainly by Pradeep's acoustic guitar but the effect it produces on the listener is unrivaled.
Bheemasena Nalamaharaja: Charan Raj: Ninale, Adhara Udhara: Charan Raj promising composer in Kannada is once again splendid with Ninale sung by Sarath Santosh and Srilakshmi Belmannu. The arrangements feature a lovely guitar base and the anupallavi where Srilakshmi enters with a beautifully tuned phrase Ondhadhe Naanagi props up the beauty of the song. Adhara Udhara's backdrop is equally enjoyable with a wide variety of sounds dominated by Nathan's Sax, Flute, and Vagu Mazan's string instruments. Karthik Saragur who writes this song also delivers the tune perfectly.
Ludo (Hindi): Pritam: Hardam Humdum: Hardam Humdum is a curious concoction and the techno laden mix features some beautiful sarod solos played by Roopak Naigaonkar. Arijit is splendid as always especially with the Pallavi tune is a stealer from Pritam and one wonders when Bollywood going to return back from mindless remixes especially when still there are many composers who produce wonderful music. Taish , Amit Trivedi's independent songs, and this one by Pritam proves once again that Bollywood can do better.
SR Kalyanamandapam: Chaitan Bharadwaj: ChukkalaChunni: Chaitan Bharadwaj is one of the composer in Telugu who produces consistently good listenable soundtrack and Chukkala Chunni falls into that category. Though nothing extraordinary to offer, the track is immensely likable for its foot-tapping tune and Anurag Kulkarni's vocals.
You can listen to all the songs as a playlist on Youtube
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