Govindudu AndariVaadele Audio Review

Movie: Govindudu Andari Vaadele ( గోవిందుడు అందరి వాడేలే )
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raaja
Director:  Krishna Vamsy
Producer(s): Bandla Ganesh
Cast: Ram Charan, Srikanth, Kajal Aggarwal and Kamalinee Mukherjee

Krishna Vamsy known for family drama, Telugu nativity, sensuous scenes is coming up with latest offering which is yet another family drama but casting the mega power star Ramcharan. This would be Ramcharan's 8th film. Second time pairing up with Kajal. This would be a different genre for him as first time he would be venturing a whole family entertainer with lots of drama. With Srikanth and Kamilinee Mukherjee along with PrakashRaj, Jayasudha acting in this movie already defines how this movie is going to be. With village dropback, the teasers/trailers being so colorful made KS Ramarao during audio release function say that this is going to be a "Colorful Hit". 

Krishna Vamsy even though is out of form currently, huge cast along with Ramcharan's presence should help this movie to make a big come back. Krishna Vamsy has some cult following and hope this movie will fill in some life for him. As usual this movie too saw lot of names for different roles changed quite a bit, but finally what it is, is what we see in the movie. Bandla Ganesh is on a winning spree and there are huge expectations on this movie as usual.

Coming to music department, SS Thaman who was initially signed for this movie, but due to creative differences with director Krishna Vamsy, he was replaced with Yuvan Shankar Raja. Yuvan is a quite familiar name for his direct and dubbed movies in Telugu. Need to see whether this change will be a common scenario going forward, whether Yuvan did what Vamsy expected or something else.

Vamsy filled this album with each lyricist writing different song. There are 6 songs in this album and each has a different name for lyrics. Krishna Vamsy who is know for good sensible lyrics in his movies could be the reason for choosing different lyricists. Sirivennela, Suddala Ashok teja and could have added Ananth Sriram. This would have made a better trio combination. But having 2 of three is not bad. Chandrabose and Ramajogaiah could be used as fillers for mass songs. Srimani is getting more chances these days. But Lakshmi Bhoopal is a good name to see in the list. Regarding singers, Hariharan is back after some gap, rest all are routine names. Now its time to see how the songs fared..

1. Neeli Rangu Cheeralona

Singer(s): Hariharan

Lyrics: Suddala Ashok Teja

The album starts with Suddala Ashok Teja's song. Which Charan's father he got national award, but this time I guess the situation didn't demand for a superlative song. He wrote a song with some definitions and messages mixing romanticism in between. Hariharan as a singer excels but the pronunciation with extra stress on "Cha" "sa" and others, doesn't appeal much, makes us check our-self for a minute. Its been a while that a singer was let to sing by himself and the voice is heard without any tinkering in the name of auto tuning. This song tune is simple, the beats are simple, the singing is simple until first stanza and in interludes Yuvan adds energy and then takes it back to its simplicity. The magnanimity should come on screen only. I guess this song is purely made for onscreen. This a happy go lucky song, with nothing extra ordinary and at the same time it is not a just ordinary song. The lyrics and Harirahan makes us listen to the song than Yuvan himself. The beats in between should create energy for fans. Overall a feel good song.

2. Gulabi Kallu

Singer(s): Javed Ali

Lyrics: Srimani

Guitar on high energy level sets the tone of the song. This song is written by Srimani a youthful romantic song. However it takes a while to understand what Javed is singing. The voice is not clear, the words are broken didnt fit right in the tune and on the top singer lend his hand to the cause. Pisinaari Naarive is already heard phrase, not sure why Srimani chose to reuse this word..Ye madhuvu daagundo Ye maguva lo, kind of phrases are good. Slowly Srimani is also becoming another Ramajogaiah with Hindi/English/Telugu mix of words in his songs. Yuvan's tune and words are completely out of sync making this song confuse listeners. However this has all youthful elements, phrases and speed. Lets see if Ramcharan adds his value to make it big on the screen.

3. Ra Rakumaara

Singer(s): Chinmayi

Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry

Chinmayi has grown to different league in singing. The way she sings effortlessly is amazing. Seems like a pathos the way Chinmayi sings this song. Yuvan is good at tuning pathos and he does show some of the glimpses of his father in this song. The only drawback is that the words are not clearly heard. Whenever Seetarama sastry garu writes, the anxiety would be on what he wrote, but this song doesn't let us to have that kind of the luxury. There should have been some more clarity in orchestration or recording. Yuvan shows some brilliance in interludes. The beats, flute show the mood of the song. This song is example of what a composer can do to a song given the liberty. Having said that this song being pathos will not appeal many of the listeners out there. Sirivennela garu as usual wrote lyrics that he is known for. Strictly for pathos or slow melody lovers.

4. Prati Chota Naake swagatham

Singer(s): Ranjith

Lyrics: Ramajogiah Sastry

A typical RJS song and youthful song without great auto tuning. This style might have been heard many times as the song doesn't demand much. RJS wrote exactly what he is known for and Yuvan composed to the demand. Aimed for youth or fans who wanted some dance steps from Charan. This song definetely needs help from Charan on screen.

5. Bava gari Choope

Singer(s): Ranjith, Vijay Yesudas, Surumukhi, Srivardhini

Lyrics: Chandrabose

A family drama and Vamsy at the helm of affairs, we wonder where is the song that includes entire family and entertain us. Chandrabose got the chance to write to the situation and he makes merry out of it in his own way :). So many singers in this song. Somehow felt Vijay Yesudas was sounding odd. He is one of the decent singers in current lot, but in the first stanza felt odd but later he was fine. Same with female singers. Something didn't sound in this song, felt disconnected in between. This could be the audio. Anyways a nice song could be another onscreen song which entertains everyone with typical Krishna Vamsy's taking involving everyone.

6. Kokkokkodi

Singer(s): Karthik, Haricharan, Manasi, Rita

Lyrics: Lakshmi Bhoopal

Karthik is an asset to this song. He starts with full energy/josh. On the other hand Haricharan falls flat when compared to Karthik. The beats make listeners foot tap. The interludes are typical of Yuvan and sound really cool. and follow females very well. Could be a song with Charan, Srikanth, Kajal and Kamalini so two male and two female singers in this song. The interludes are really cool. This would be another Krishna Vamsy type song leaving with great feel of family. Laskhmi Bhoopal wrote some mass lyrics probably which was missing in this album so far so he fills in that gap. Not sure what is the fantasy of filmy makes on "Kodi" and "Kodi Thoda kottatam". This song is full of energy, beats, will have dance movements, and probably a feast both onscreen and off screen.

Pick(s) of the album: Neeli Rangu Cheeralona, Ra Rakumara, Kokkokkodi..

Having listened to the album, Yuvan relieves us from the issues like auto tuning, cannot hear singer properly, getting rid of the feeling of hearing same sounds again and again and many more. That itself is refreshing. Yuvan did decent job in the music department providing what the director needs, couple of melodies, a patho, couple of youthful songs. Since it is family drama, the songs will be different and cannot appeal all alike. Charan fans who got used to mass songs, will not have so many of them, but they should slowly get used to as Charan took a first step of doing family oriented movies rather than it playing safe. The songs of the album are not instant winners except but were done as demanded by the movie. Hope Vamsy, Charan will get another hit in their careers and the family drama will entertain film lovers.