Sarainodu Audio Review

Movie: Sarainodu ( సరైనోడు )

Producer(s):Allu Aravind

Cast: Allu Arjun, Sreekanth, Rakul Preet Singh, Catherine Tresa

Direction: Boyapati Srinu

Music: SS Thaman

Bunny ( Allu Arjun ) is on high growing out of Mega shades and giving his own hits in the form of S/O Satyamurty, Racegurram. These two movies performed good at box office collecting more than Rupees 50 crores each. He chose to make a movie with Mass director Boyapati Srinu. This movie is produced by Allu Aravind under Geetha Arts banner. The movie features Allu Arjun, Rakul Preet Singh and Catherine Tresa in the lead roles while Srikanth appears in a supporting role. SS. Thaman composed music for this movie. Both Allu Arjun and Thaman scored hit in term of Racegurram. They are hoping to score another hit.

Thaman scored 6 songs in this movie, one was released before and today all the songs were officially released online, probably since mega family were busy with the marriage. RJS wrote 3 songs, which tells that this is going to be a mass album. Ananth Sriram, Srimani and KC wrote one song each. Srimani these days gets to write title songs, but not in this movie. Lets see whether Bunny and Thaman repeated their magic.

1. Athiloka Sundari  

Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry

Singer(s): Vishal Dadlani, Karthik

A good start to the song and the album, but unfortunately, Vishal Dadlani literally killed the song. Thaman is as usual repetitive. The only good thing in the song is the starting and interludes. The song does not sound different as the loops are beaten. Vishal's voice is different so song sounds different. Thaman is good in giving different sounds, but the chorus is also heard many times in many songs. Thaman's unique style doesn't change Any song the same style. Ramajogayya Sastry's lyrics are wasted. Didnt hear Karthik even distinctly. Not sure where he is hidden. Many issues like Tolli choopu instead of Toli Choopu, have to be ignored and people have already got used to these issues now a days. There are places where Thaman did a good job, but singer messed up the song bit time. This song is strictly for Thaman fans.

2. You Are My MLA  

Lyrics: Ananth Sriram

Singer(s): Dhanunjay

Oh boy typical Thaman start. The chorus doesn't change. Thaman doesn't deviate in singer 's singing style. Dhanunjay sings as pathos. There is no energy, the echo to singer also doesn't bring any good effect to the song. A big disconnect between the instruments, singing, singer and beats. Everything goes in their own track. It could have been better song if all went hand in hand. There are some good moments in the song that sounds as good melody, but many times it appears as heard before takes away the beautifullness from the song. This song could have been lot better, but something Thaman chose it to be pretty ordinary.

3. Private Party  

Lyrics: Krishna Chaitanya

Singer(s): Manasi M.M, M.C. Vickey

Start of the song is heard many times. Thats fine. This song is perfect song that youth/part goers will embrace. This song has all words that they go crazy about. Manasi has done their job as needed compared to Vickey. Vickey could have done a little better. Thaman is good in these type of songs, so doesn't have to take too much effort in making the song. Sometimes Thaman keeps audience brain busy in guessing which song it resembles. But I guess this time its not too hard. But that doesn't keep this song to rock. This will easily be on the charts in coming few weeks.

4. Blockbuster

Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry

Singer(s): Shreya Ghoshal, Nakash Aziz, Simha, Sri Krishna, Deepu

Thaman keeps reminding us with his template beats. This song lists so many singers for a complete out and out mass song. Saying Blockbuster doesn't appeal. Simha and Shreya's voices are more audible than the rest. Felt that the song at many places lacks enough energy, however the beats covers it up. This song when released as teaser, there were many hits and it was blockbuster for the dance steps of Allu Arjun. This also showed that Srikanth also acted in the movie. 

5. Telusaa Telusaa  

Lyrics: Sri Mani

Singer(s): Jubin Nautiyal, Sameera Bharadwaj

Thaman finally decides to give a melody. A very slow soft song. The song goes so beautifully until chorus and Jubin Nautiyal comes and messes up. Not sure whether Thaman or any movie makers listened to this song before releasing to audience? If they had better music sense, how would they allow some salt in the song which was going until then as milk? Srimani excels with simple lyrics. Except for the male singer this song would top the album. I wish there could be some automatic mute when male singer sings his part in this song or replace it with some instrumentation. Anyways Thaman ruined a beautiful song  and I hate when someone does that to such a beautiful song. Even though appears its a mix of some of his old songs, that doesn't bother much compared to the male singer ruining the song.

6. Sarainodu

Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry

Singer(s): Hard Kaur, Sonu Kakkar, Brijesh Shandilya

Thaman has a typical song making style which has few characteristics. The start of the song, the beats. the singers style of singing and the way words are broken to the tune. This is his identity and he doesn't deviate from this style of making. Unless he changes this, every song sounds same. He might add new sounds and instruments to each song. when overall texture is same, the flavor appears the same. This could be due to two reasons, one movie makers asking for it or his capacity is limited. Ramajogayya Sastry, is all about youthful, catchy, trendy words in multiple languages. This song is no different and perfectly syncs with the tune. Singers are pretty ordinary in this song has done nothing great other than giving what song demands. Except for lack of freshness this song seems to be fine without much issues.

Pick(s) of the album:  Sarainodu, Blockbuster - Telusa Telusa ( if male voice can be avoided )  

Thaman provides a mix bag of songs. he ruined two songs with poor choice of singers or making them sing differently. Couple of songs sounded repetitive, but those song are fine overall. And the rest could have been better. This album for sure will not be instant hit, but will take time to grow with the mix he provided. Allu Arjun has to stepup for couple of songs, which we have seen he already did so he should be fine, so are his fans and Thaman fans who like the sounds than the overall song and its issues, will embrace this album.

Sardaar Gabbar Singh Audio Review

Movie: Sardaar Gabbar Singh ( సర్దార్ గబ్బర్ సింగ్ )

Producer(s): Pawan Kalyan,Sharrath Marar,Sunil Lulla

Cast: Pawan Kalyan, Kajal Agarwal

Direction: K.S.Ravindra ( Story: Pawan )

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Slated to be released on 8th April, Pawan's latest movie Sardar Gabbar Singh is completely new story which Pawan wrote himself. This is neither a sequel of his earlier movie nor a remake of Hindi movie. K.S. Ravindra who earlier directed "Power" also worked as screenwriter for many successful movies, is directing this movie. Kajal Agarwal is paired with Pawan as female lead. There was news that many other heroines were approached before finalizing Kajal. Gabbar Singh movie redefined the craze of Pawan and became a bench mark movie, not sure what will happen with this movie, which releases in right time, when fanism is peak at this time. Pawans Attarintiki daredi movie rewrote many records of Telugu movie industry until Bahubali took over most of them. However with this movie the expectations are that it will rewrite atleast many of them. This move is also getting released in Hindi. Even though few critics didnt like it, fans expect that this movie will make some impact and show what power of South means. 

DSP as usual is providing music to this film. His relation with Pawan Kalyan has been phenomenal in terms of music. No wonder he got chance again as Pawan's last movie Gopala Gopala had a different music director Anup Rubens. But recently for all big movies its DSP. This movie promotion was consistent to raise expectations and meet the demands of the fans. The two teasers released so far has everything that fans can rave about. 

This movie has 5 songs and a theme song. In that one is title song which is already heard by everyone. The Gabbar Singh title song gives a hint of the movie. The lyrics all say about that. "Danger antundhi choodu melloni erra tundu" and Pawan sports this "tundu" in every frame of the teaser. 

Lets see how music department fared even though nothing can beat Power star's screen presence, few fans of music will care for this department. 

01 - Sardaar

Singer(s): Benny Dayal

Lyrics: Ramajogiah Sastry

This is the title song which says "He is back once again, This time as Sardaar" with chorus saying Sardaar most of the time. This song is completely aimed at mass and his fans. The original Gabbar singh tune is not deviated much, but the only difference in these songs is that in this song singer Baba Sehgal missing in the form of energy. Seems like DSP had a tough task in managing the same tune and make it equally popular as the first. 

The main strength of this song is mass lyrics and the well known tune which gave a great energy to his fans earlier. but that is limited now. Benny Dayal made no mistake, but when comparisons are drawn, he falls on the false side. The reason is his voice lacks the depth that is needed for this song. The chorus were not energetic too, that is due to the tune. This song could have been more electrifying given this is all about Power.

This song has lyrics all written elevating the character, but in terms of power, be it horse power of earth quake. As told earlier, apart from Khakhi dress, this character has extra "Tundu". Also on other observation is that the Gabbar Singh addresses the song with Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls and all his fans", however this movie says just Ladies and Gentleman, not that it matters :) 

Few sentences like these could have been avoided. Even though they are aimed at youth, they go out of sync to the song. "Masthu look ro mass facebook ro, Veedu left right excellent police". Not sure why telugu film lyricists are more fascinated towards columbus. Most of the songs he will be there. This one too "Kotha kotha crime guttu patte colombus". This song is already out and got its craze. The only missing part in this song is lower energy levels which for sure doesn't matter when people see this on screen.

02 - Chinnadani Choopulona

Singer(s): Simha, Mamta Sharma

Lyrics: DSP

Simha seems like now he is branded to sing just mass songs. Even though he doesnt have great flexibility in his voice, people got used to him for these type of songs, thanks to cinema choopista mama in Racegurram. The female singer's voice is not at all good at many places. She could have avoided to be sounding artificial when saying "Ro", Natural voice is always best. This is again one more out and out mass song. Laathi pattavante abbo block buster, Not sure why lyricists write these type of lines. Nothing related to character but just aiming at fans. Fans wont be impressed by these lines, they are more interested in real collections. DSP went safe in this song. He didn't make many deviations to standard template mass song he composes.

03 - Nee Chepa Kallu

Singer(s): Sagar, Chinmayi

Lyrics: Ramajogaiah Sastry

DSP provides at least one melody per album and here is that song. Sagar voice is feeble in he start, but later he picks up when he sings alone. DSP choses to add an effect to Sagar's voice initially, but let him go at a later stage. This song has trade mark written all over Chinmayi did great job. DSP rocks as usual in his tuning, instruments, orchestration keeping it simple, the lyrics are in sync with the tune. But this song doesnt grow instantly but will grow on repeated hearing. Probably DSP designed it that way. No issues with the singers for the first time in this album. This song is for DSP's melody fans. He will impress only upon repeated hearing.

04 - O Pilla

Singer(s): Shreya Ghoshal, Vijay Prakash 

Lyrics: Ananth Sriram

DSP has a signature tune in every movie, probably this song has it. The violin is very good. Then the song goes into normal path. A soft slow song. This song even though doesn't appear refreshing, this is good enough. Shreya Ghoshal sounds good in this song due to no significant pronunciation issues. Vijaya Prakash does fine. Ananth Sriram gave hint about this song during audio launch that he wrote this song. He does a decent job. Overall a simple song that also grows after repeated hearing. 

05 - Tauba Tauba

Singer(s): Nakaash Aziz,M. M. Manasi 

Lyrics: Ananth Sriram

The starting beats of the song reminds a popular hindi song, there after it takes its own route. Ananth Sriram said that Tauba Tauba words were given by DSP and then he continued from there. Khawali type song, inspired from here and there to make it a separate song to have its own identity. This song is sure another out and out mass song. Ananth Sriram justifies drinking in a funny way in this song. This song is having good beats, lyrics, tune and finally gets a good overall blend of each component into a fine song. This song for sure will rock on screen. 

06 - Aadevadanna (Theme Song)

Singer(s): Deepak 

Lyrics: Ramajogaiah Sastry

Theme song written and composed like good old king days, saying the elevation of the character of Sardar Gabbar Singh. Praising the character is the theme of the song, saying he is someone whom no one can beat and no one can come close. He is supreme power, the Powerstar. The chorus could have been a little loud. The song gets speed as it goes towards end and ends on high note summarizing all about one and only Sardar.

Pick(s) of the album: Choodaku Choodaku, Title Song, Tauba Tauba

This album has good mix of songs and it all depends upon expectations how one will perceive this album. For Powerstar's fans this is what they need and they got it from DSP. Three mass songs, one melody, one soft song the rest assured from Pawan. Couple of songs grow upon repeated hearing. This album is aimed at masses and fans so it will reach them as expected. Whether this is one of the best DSP/Pawan album? Thats very easy question to answer. Their combination earlier gave better albums than this. Having said that the title song already had 1 million views even though it is not superior to earlier Gabbar Singh title song. So nothing matters for Power star's movie all that matters is his screen presence. This album will get a mixed response from non-fans and DSP's fans.  All the best for Power star and his fans who are aiming to set new industry records with this movie. 

Nenu Sailaja Audio Review

Movie: Nenu Sailaja ( నేను శైలజ )

Producer(s):PV Ravikishore ( Sri Sravanti Movies Banner)

Cast: Ram Pothineni, Keerthi SureshStory/Direction: Kishore Tirumala

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

After getting success with Pandaga chesko, and failing at box office with Shivam, Ram is coming with his latest offering Nenu Sailaja, where Sailaja is played by Keerthi Suresh, who is a child artist turned to female lead. She is going to be lot busy in 2016 even though she has handful of movies released. Ram is working with Kishore Tirumala, who created lot of buzz when the teaser got released with dialog said by female lead "I love you, but I am not in love with you." Ram plays a DJ role in this movie. The director himself writes the story. This is his first movie in Telugu but he has a movie in Tamil which didn't fare well. DSP scores music for this album, who after Kumari 21F is pretty high. This album offers 6 songs, off which one is a bit song so that takes to 5 full songs. Sirivennela, Sagar, RJS and chandrabose wrote the songs where as DSP has his standard singers to sing the songs. Lets see what did DSP do after Kumari 21F. 

1. Night is still young
Lyrics: Sagar
Singer(s): David Simon

Ram plays a DJ role in this movie, so DSP composes a perfect youthful song with perfect mix of the instruments and background music. David Simon doesn't sound odd whenever he deviates from the flow of the song. A perfect song for clubs, parties and dance bars. The tune is catchy, with words fitting the tune. After DSP, I guess its his brother's turn to write the song. If he is the same Sagar. Probably both brothers are carrying over the legacy of their father one or the other way which is good to know. What makes this song different is the perfect blend of singing, tune, and instruments. Its stylish, energetic, pacy, and non-stop at at times makes one go for it on the dance floor while night is still young.

 
2. Crazy Feeling  
Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry
Singer(s): Prudhvi Chandra

Craziness is for sure a feeling. What is the reason one to have that feeling is obvious, but is explained in this song with a line up of examples. RJS is for sure a multi lingual lyricists who rarely writes in Telugu, uses all latest examples to define the crazy feeling about love. DSP seems to have inspired, adapted an yesteryear song in interludes, and there after he took it off on his own. RJS captures all the feelings of youth when one is in love. DSP scores a song that will click well in youth. This song will for sure leave a crazy feeling in them.

 
3. Masti Masti  
Lyrics: Anantha Sriram
Singer(s): Sooraj Santhosh, Swetha Mohan

Sooraj sounded like Sagar at few places. Even though not listed in credits, may be its Sagar who accompanied Sooraj as chorus and dominated the sound. Swetha Mohan was fine as long as she was going at normal pitch. She didn't sound right when she changes the pitch. DSP reminds few songs in the starting and during interludes. However he intelligently brought in variations to the song with interludes and the chorus to make it different. Ananth Sriram is not seen quite often he used to be see earlier. Not sure why. This song is yet another decent song in this album.

 
4. Sailaja Sailaja  
Lyrics: Bhaskara Bhatla
Singer(s): Sagar

Starting of the song is very good that sets the mood and backdrop of the song. Sagar should have said the word Sailaja/Mohabbat a little better. He doesn't sound comfortable the way he said it. Interlude is perfect. Bhaskar Bhatla comes up with the list of what doesn't change to ask why Sailaja has changed. Again DSP reminds an yesteryear song during second interlude for a moment. However that doesn't have to do anything with the stanzas. Having said that this song is an instant winner for its variety and the fun it has in terms of lyrics. 

5. Em Cheppanu  
Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry
Singer(s): Karthik

Karthik, DSP, Sirivennela the song details itself is so pleasant to hear. Karthik rocks this song. DSP scores yet another beautiful song. Karthik and Sirivennela takes this song to next level. The lyrics, singing, instruments, orchestration gel so well that this makes a perfect song. The words from Sirivennela flows leaving an excellent feeling. DSP could have done a better job to breakup of words so that the richness of lyrics is maintained. Even though he did decent job, he could have done a little better to make few people like me more happy. When someone is giving we ask more, its more like that than a complaint. Mainly at places like "ఎడారి కంటు వెళ్ళకుండ ఆపి వాన చెలిని". When a melody and good lyrics goes hand in hand not sure which causes other to be better. But both when work together, the output is for sure excellent. On the top, when we add a good singer then nothing can be better than this in any album. However in this song which is better its hard to decide, whether its lyrics or the tune.

 
6. Ee Premaki  
Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry
Singer(s): Chitra

These days when Chitra garu sings, nothing can match it in the album even if its a short song or a bit. When Susheela garu almost stopped singing, when she sang a bit in film Duet, it was like a feast, same here with Chitra garu singing this short bit. When the bit ends it gives a disappointment of ending so soon. Movie makers could have atleast made this a full song, and could have used a bit in movie, that way purpose could have been solved. Anyways until next song of Chitra garu, this should be fine for fans.

Pick(s) of the album: Entire album

DSP and Sukumar provided a hit in terms of Kumari 21F. He proved why he is where he is in the film industry. With Nannaku Premato coming again with the same combination, this movie coming in between should be a hatrick hits of DSP. Its been a while that entire album is audible without skipping the songs here and there. DSP scores perfect with this album. Not sure how much it helps to Ram, but will have to wait and see.

Nannaku Prematho Audio Review

Movie: Nannaku Premato ( నాన్నకు ప్రేమతో )

Producer(s): BVSN Prasad

Cast: Tarak, Rakul Preet Singh, Jagapati Babu, Rajendra Prasad

Direction: Sukumar

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Tarak's 25th film in his career as an actor is taken care of by Sukumar in terms of Nannaku Premato. Tarak's hair style, Sukumar's stylish taking has created lot of buzz. Added to that Rakul Preet Singh, Rajendra prasad and Jagapathi Babu raised the expectations of the movie. Even though Tarak performance was critically acclaimed, the movie didn't get huge success at box office, so every one is eagerly waiting for this movie to be successful. Sukumar after 1 Nenokkadine's failure with Mahesh Babu too is eagerly waiting to prove his mettle.

Nannaku Premato as title suggests is family drama with some action in Sukumar style. The casting suggests the same. It was said that initially Harikrishna was approached to play Tarak's father's role but somehow it didn't materialize. The audio was dedicated to DSP's father Satyamurthy garu who recently passed away. Every one know's the relation between the father and son, how Satyamurty garu used to enjoy the success of DSP. Indeed it was a great gesture. And this related to the movie too as the audio release function shows the same.

DSP scored music and automatically DSP/Sukumar Combination which has become synonym to success. This movie offers 5 songs in which DSP played roles of singer and lyricist. Tarak himself croons a song and a bit of this was released long ago. Chandrabose gets to write 3 songs, which is not common these days. There is always a written magic in the music when DSP composes songs for Sukumar. Their frequency matches so well that the output has always been successful. Having said that lets see where did they go with this album.

1. Follow Follow

Singer(s): Tarak

Lyrics: Devi Sri Prasad

Devi Sri Prasad is slowly becoming a full time lyricists. The number is increasing day by day. His lyrics are not sounding odd as the standard lyricists are writing no different. Mainly if the lyricist is himself the composer of the song, he gets more freedom to change tune or lyrics the way he wants. The song's hero is Tarak for so refreshingly singing the song. He is better than many singers out there. His voice normally is harsh at times but in this song its so pleasant. He showed lot of comfort singing this song. The repeating letters before the word is so simply done without complicating it. Sounded a lot better. DSP surprisingly dominated with lyrics than the tune. At a point in the song, reminds a Kamal's song which is for a flash, but the song goes back to where it was. The trumpets shows the mood of the song. In the starting of the song too, Tarak sounded its a lot of fun promised in this song. This song was the small bit that was released sometime ago. Definetely this song has the trademark of DSP, Sukumar, with added flavor in terms of Tarak, this song is instant hit. 

2. Naa manasu Neelo

Singer(s): Devi Sri Prasad. Sharmila

Lyrics: Bhaskara Bhatla

Listening to DSP thought why he sang this song, he for a bit sounded like his brother Sagar, but either way, not sure whether he did good justice the tune he composed. In the earlier song, the dual role worked but here I doubt it. Only the composer in him worked but the singer did not. This song was supposed to fill in the melody expected from Sukumar/DSP combo. It didn't meet their standards due to DSP's singing, but otherwise a good song for the instruments that come in between. Sharmila is limited to saying few words in between. Bhaskarabhatla tried something different but some comparisons in the song doesn't sound right. Interludes are good, but sounded odd at endings. May be DSP wanted to sound them different. Overall a decent song could have been better. It might appeal over time. 

3. Dont Stop

Singer(s): Raghu Dixit

Lyrics: Chandrabose

I guess Raghu Dixit filled this song for otherwise Baba Sehgal's song. This song from the start go of the song, sounds repetitive in terms of tune. Some message oriented song for which Raghu struggles at places to sing this song. The beats provide energy but the lyrics and singing doesn't match the energy. Chandrabose talks big but his songs doesn't match his talks. This song is another proof of it. Not sure if Tarak can provide any help on screen other wise pretty ordinary song from DSP/Sukumar. 

4. Love me again

Singer(s): Sooraj Santosh

Lyrics: Chandrabose

Chandrabose writes formula lyrics. Jaabilli mallee raada, suryudu mallee raadaa love me again. What all repeats are written to match the word again in Love me Again. Probably a sad song. DSP provides a simple song. Every movie DSP provides a signature tune that automatically gets synonym for that movie. Not sure whether that tune is in this song or in Naa manasu neelo. He some how doesn't take violin to the next level as he always does. Sooraj's singing is not up-to mark mainly when he brings in artificiality in the song with some fake accent. He didn't help the song This could have been a much better song if not for Sooraj's singing. 

5. Love Debba

Singer(s): Deepak, Sravana Bhargavi

Lyrics: Chandrabose

After getting mixed feeling with third and fourth song, this song starts a Arabic native tune and quite racy beats. However Sravana Bhairavi and Deepak doesnt match the tune. Deepak brings the nativity with shake in his voice but it ends there. Sravana bhargavi changed the modulation initially which didn't sound good, settles down later on, but again goes back to where she started. Chandrabose doesnt deviate from his mass lyrics. Instead of ice challenge, he changes to juice challenge, tried use meter many times. Even though DSP tried to be different in the song, somehow things didn't work the way he might have wanted to click. Once again its singers fault and not much help from Chandrabose. I guess they didn't quite understand the tune DSP composed. This song too leaves a mixed feeling. 

Pick(s) of the album: Follow Follow, Naa manasu Neelo

DSP and Sukumar have been raising their bar so high with each and every movie, people are not ready to accept anything less then their earlier movie. Their combo were successful in Kumari 21F, where DSP gave a beautiful melody after a long time that met their high standards. However with this movie, we cannot surely say they met their standards. Its not fault of the album, but its fault of the standards they set and expectations bar they have set. All their fans hope is that they didn't reach their peak yet and will definitely keep trying to reach their peak before going down trend. This movie lacks their wow factor or the instantly likable factor mainly due to singers.  

Some how industry is missing good singers who can elevate ordinary song to great level, instead they are making good songs sound pretty ordinary or sometimes bad. There is every chance that their fans might get disappointed, but Tarak fans might not. They will embrace this album and make it hit. DSP's dedication towards his work is clearly visible when he started his work 3rd day after his greatest loss of his life shows his commitment. Hope this is a pause and he will come back again with Sukumar to meet expectations of their fans. Wish Tarak and the entire team a great success he and his fans are waiting for.