Rowdy Fellow Audio Review

Movie: Rowdy Fellow (రౌడీ ఫెల్లో )
Music: Sunny M.R
Director:  Krishna Chaitanya
Producer(s): T Prakash Reddy Entertainment banner
Cast: Nara Rohit, Vishakha Singh
Lyrics: Krishna Chaitanya, C Narayana Reddy, Vasistha Sharma

Rowdy Fellow is an upcoming film of Nara Rohit, written and directed by Krishna Chaitanya This movie is produced by Prakash Reddy under his banner Moviemills, and presented by Cinema 5. Nara Rohit and Vishakha Singh are the male and female leads and Nandini Rai playing an important role in this film, supported by other actors like Rao Ramesh, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, Posani Krishna Murali, Gollapudi Maruti Rao.

Nara Rohit who had done movies at a very slow pace since his debut film Baanam, took two years for his next movie Solo. I guess he realized that this is not going to work and increased pace in 2014 and lined up atleast 4 movies in 2014 after Pratinidhi, which got good acclaims. This movie though started in 2013, took some time to complete.

Sunny MR who is flying high with back to back hits in the names of Swamy Ra Ra, Uyyala Jumpala, going to try his third film in Telugu. A Sound Engineer and Recording supervisor in Bollywood has big Hindi movies associated to his name. Seems like it was Krishna Chaitanya who introduced to the team of Swamy Ra Ra and got a chance as music director.

This movie has 6 tracks named in the album, one song is a remix of old song. The title track and call of Rowdy doesn't count as songs, so literally there are 3 songs composed by Sunny. The Singers list is complete foreign to Telugu full of bollywood singers, Sunny association tells it all. I thought Sunny had a studio in Hyderabad. So trying to understand the reason of bringing so many singers to Hyderabad to sing Telugu songs.

Anyway lets see whether Sunny got a hat-trick or not.

01 Rowdy
Singer(s): Arijit Singh,Aditi Singh Sharma

Arijit has a unique voice and doesnt work for all songs, and mainly in an alien language to him. Neerasam Nuvveraa, if we hear this we get really neerasam. For a minute I thought I am listening to Sunny's earlier album Swamy Rara, did I play something wrong? Not thats Swaamy Rara, this is Raraa Rowdy, there is a difference. Not sure what else to talk about this song. Arijit was ok, but the way the words are broke and sung is becoming normal in every movie. The style was similar to Gulabi Kallu sung by Javed Ali in GAV. Anyway short length song so its a relief.

02 Yedo 
Singer(s):  Armaan Malik,Harshika Gudi

Surprising to see Sunny suddenly switch gear to provide a melody. Armaan Malik was fine, but Harshika's voice was feeble and faint. This was better made song. But the instruments supporting the voices were loud. Melody songs the instruments in background should be light sounded when singers are singing and should take over in interludes. But they sound exactly same, no matter what. Having said that this is a good song, that ended good. The lyrics are good too.

03 Aa Seetadevi 
Singer(s):  Arijit Singh

Arijit gets one more song. This song in his voice sounds similar and hear somewhere. The beauty of Telugu is that when words are said correctly, even without any tune they sound sweet. However lately music directors without knowing the greatness of Telugu try to tune to Telugu words in their style. They don't have to put any afford if the words that give a meaning said together. This song is perfect example for how not to break words in the name of tune. There is difference between kallu, KAllu. When these singers sing, we don't know what to make out of these words to understand. Not matter how the great tune is how great the singer is if the words are not said right, the song goes to drain. 

04 Yentha Vaaru Gani 
Singer(s): Nakash Aziz,Natasha Pinto

This song is yesteryear famous hit song of NTR from Bhale tammudu. The specialty being sung by great Mohammad Rafi, which is Telugu version of baar baar dekho. Even though those days Hindi Industry had great singers, they were not asked to sing as their Telugu sounded alien. However this song was popular. C Narayana Reddy those time wrote the lyrics and good thing that the lyrics are untouched. The song doesn't sound different as that time it was sung by Hindi person and now it is repeated with similar voice. Sunny did good job by keep the original flavor intact and adding some own touches here and there, Didn't create issues. Any ways when original is there, duplicate is always second choice. For those who never listened to original song, can enjoy this version too.

05 Red & Yellow 
Singer(s):  Shalmali Kholgade,Samrat Kaushal

In child hood days, whenever any one say Red and Yellow, it was said Rowdy Fellow. Glad that this phrase was used in this song. Other than that this song doesn't offer anything much. Shalmali and Samraut not sure what they were singing. This song falls flat in terms of every angle of the song. First issue is understanding this song. Then try to get the feel of the song. Anyways since this song has not much to offer, cannot say much about it.

06 Call of the Rowdy 
Singer(s):  Jennifer Abraham,Sunny M.R.

Theme of the movie? I guess so. Again Raa Raa Rowdy Raa Raa is sung with different sounds supporting it. In movie it might be different but its too loud I guess for normal listening. Sunny also lent his voice but cant know who is singing what.

Pick(s) of the album: Yedo, Aa Seetadevi sounded better in this album, not that they are great songs.

One more so called trendy album, where tunes are repeated, sung by non-Telugu singers for Telugu album. Slowly Telugu movie is loosing its Teluguness in the name of youthful, trendy, catchy music. Since music is objective, there will be no bad music, it can be said bad if majority dislike it. Yet there will be some one who will love the songs. This album is for those. Nara Rohit didnt get enough support from music, Sunny MR missed a hat-trick. It is upto listeners if they choose to listen. Sunny has just started career so he has long way to go, one album here and there will not create much problems for him as long as he is focused.