katamarayudu - Audio Review

Movie: Katamarayudu ( కాటమరాయుడు)
Producer(s):  Sharath Maraar
Cast: Pawan kalyam, Shruti Haasan, 
Direction: Kishore Kumar Pardasani
Music: Anup Rubens

Pawan Kalyan after a big failure in the name of Sardar Gabbar Singh, is coming back with Kaatamarayudu a remake of Tamil film Veeram. The making visuals, his attire, the sword and many others created a great buzz among the fans. The Tamil movie has Tamannah as female lead, vs Shruti Haasan in Telugu. DSP composed music for Veeram, whereas this time Pawan chooses Anup to compose music for this movie. This film also followed the latest trend - the Pre-release function even though in similar format as audio function, the songs were released one by one setting the hype and mood of the fans. 

This movie is set to be released as Ugadi special on 24th March, with premieres a day before. Pawan's movies doesn't need any introduction about the movie, as everyone is up-to date on the movie and its information. The entire audio is now released and it has 6 songs with a love theme instrumental as additional track. RJS, Ananth Sriram, Bhaskarabhatla share the songs along with Varikuppala Yadagiri. Lets see how songs fared.

1. Song: Mira Mira Meesam
Singer: Anurag Kulkarni
Lyrics: Ramajogaiah Sastry

This song I guess is the first one to release. The songs supposed to start on high note based on expectations on the song, didn't do that, so falls flat. The words said in the starting of the song is reason for that. However Anup then compensates that issue  with a good Mira Mira Meesam and the lines follows were also good, then after pallavi, the way the next lines were made and sung was not very appealing. Probably this might be the reason that even though this was the first song to be release didn't catch up as much as it should have. Chiguru vagaru pogaru kind of the words and the kara kara kandalu, churuku saruku are used just for rhyming like space filling words for the tune. The trailer shows that its a massive song and the beats are powerful enough to match the trailer visual. Panche the way it is said denotes distribution not the dhoti. Overall this song is that leaves mixed feeling upon listening, but should definitely a feast on screen.

2. Song: Yelo Yedarilo Vaana
Singers: Dhanunjay, Malavika
Lyrics: Anantha Sriram

The start denotes its kind of extension to the first song. Somehow felt this song was sung dull. Dhanunjay sounded very pale and lacked energy. Ballem Paakuto puvvula banaala pai gelichedi ela? was content for a great laugh. Not sure what was written and what was sung. Comparing the hero with Maharshulu and Veerulu is quite contrast. Movie should solve this puzzle. Anup should have chosen a better singer for the tune he made. The interludes are good and different. Lyrics by Ananth Sriram are decent. The tune for the song is also good. Overall a decent song would have been great if singer would have made a little more contribution. 

3. Song: Laage Laage
Singers: Nakash Aziz, Nutana Mohan
Lyrics: Bhaskarabatla

Nutana Mohan should replace Shreya Ghosal permanently in Telugu Filmy Music. Inspite of singing for more than decade Shreya neither can pronounce properly in Telugu nor she sounds Telugu in most of her songs. Except for her voice, there is no reason to listen to her and people not caring other issues is pathetic. Telugu singers not being able to sing in Hindi is pretty much reason for madness of Telugu movie makers for other language singers. Nutan was simply fantastic with her voice. 

Then the contrast comes in the form of Nakash Aziz, his voice is not a natural fit for this song. His NaaTyam shows why he is not fit. Some sarcasm is in built in the voice. Not sure what was the line at "Emaatram kudure undadu premato "raanaam"?? These days these issues are only for serious music lovers. Most of the listeners stopped caring about them. However this song sounds for sure a better. A decent song from Bhaskarabhatla as he deviated from his mass songs and gave a decent song to Pawan and his fans already embraced it. Anup should have give more space to Nutana than limiting her to croon couple of lines. 

4. Song: Emo Emo
Singers: Shreya Goshal, Arman Malik
Lyrics: Anantha Sriram

We just talked about replacement of Shreya and here she comes. Every movie we are hearing a new singer name. And 99% of them are non-Telugu. Not sure whats the fetish of non-Telugu singers, which none of the other languages would do as much as we do. This is something movie makers should think. Arman Malik type singers are definetely good singers but the songs they sing in Telugu doesnt sound Telugu. Perfect example is chandaaa mama, instead of chandamam.. As I said Shreya cannot say many Telugu words. Adhrushtam, Chantodu, artham, are few of them. Pretty shameful for a singer singing more than a decade in Telugu. This shows purely lack of hard work and sincerity in efforts. Yet another decent song from Anup. This album is more focused on soft melodies except for the title song. This is good. 

5. Song: Jivvu Jivvu
Singer: Dhanunjay
Lyrics:Varikuppala Yadagiri

I wish Pawan would have himself sang this song like Katamarayudu in Attarintiki daaredi Or some one like mandu babulam by Kota. This song is a situational song with mass touch and beats. Kallu compound songs aimed at masses probably and it will reach them. 

6. Song: Love Theme
Instrumentation with Love theme as denoted. A very short audio clip. 


7. Song: Netha Cheera
Singers: Sai Charan, Sahithi
Lyrics: Bhaskarabatla
Additional Vocals : Simha

Singers voice doesn't match the level of beats. Found the voice levels of singers are very low. Is it intentional? Not sure. Nayikaa/Nayakaa repeats for every line based on who sings. Bhaskarabhatla now comes with a mass song. Anup adds the beats required to the tune he came up. This should be an effortless song to make for Anup. Enta has become Entaa. Most of the tunes made these days for sure are messing up words and then singers are adding up to it. Why makers dont take enough care I am not sure. This happens only in Telugu and doesnt happen in other languages. Some one from TFI should really look into it. 

Pick(s) of the album: Laage Laage, Mira Mira Meesam, Emo Emo

For most of the movies by Pawan kalyan, the music was provided by Devi Sri Prasad. After Gopala Gopala Anup Rubens gets another chance to compose music for Pawan Kalyan. This is a very great oppurtunity for Anup to take the album to a differnt heights, so that his future with Pawan and others will be decided. I cannot say Anup provided extraordinary music, but for sure this is a decent album. Three songs sound good and the rest are not bad. The songs were not in a particular pattern and I guess they must have catered the situations in the movie. Pawan's movies always had great music and this one doesn't let him down. His fans are waiting to recover from SGS and hope this movie is a good comeback and will satisfy the fans.