Sarocharu - Audio Review

Sarocharu  - Music Review

Movie: Sarocharu (2012)

Director: Parasuram
Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Producer: Priyanka Dutt
Cast:   Raviteja, Kajal Agarwal, Richa Gangopadhyay, Nara Rohit (Special Appearance)

Raviteja after few debacles is coming with latest offering Sarocharu, with his earlier director Parasuram who directed him for Anjaneyulu. That movie was an average grosser. This movie is produced by Priyanka Dutt on Vyjayanti Movies banner which is basically Aswini Dutt's banner. This movie underwent many changes regarding female leads, it was heard names like Amala Paul and Trisha, however it ended up with Kajal and Richa. They tried to get the combination of DSP and Rajiteja who earlier worked togather for Venky which was a musical hit, expecting the same result. This movie initially titled "Sarosthara" the title of song from Mahesh Babu's film which was popular among listeners, not sure what is the reason, but this is changed to "Sarocharu". Obviously Raviteja is the Sir, we are talking about and lets see whether he came with a musical hit or not.

DSP on other hand who had trouble couple of year ago with many music directors taking away his business, bounced back with hits. Right now he is enjoying a success path and is in comfortable zone and lead at a distance far away from others. He has been giving music appealing many few. He offered 5 songs in this movie, He and his brother sang two out of five leaving the rest for others.

1.  Made for each other

Singers: Devi Sri Prasad

Lyrics : Ramajogayya Sastry

DSP starts the album preparing the listeners by introducing himself with the songs he has done earlier making sure people hasn't forgotten his music. His voice is same, his beats are same, his chorus and instruments everything is exactly same as per his song before. We can easily recognize that this is DSP song. Ramajogayya Sastry who understood that writing youthful lyrics is nothing but writing song mixing all languages. Typically how youth talks to each other. There is nothing more than that. When Raviteja is there,  Mirapakaya has to be there. By singing this song, he saved few Rupees for himself or the producer. As the other singers lately are no different and better. This song for youthful Raviteja and for choreographer who can compose few steps different to Raviteja or others. Yes same to same DSP we got it.

2. Jaga Jaga Jagadeka Veera

Singers: Venu, Ranina Reddy

Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry

After DSP's introductory song, he continues the same path, but after some time leaves us to take a different route and comes back to to ensure we are on right track with him and then leaves us in between. Ramajogayya now takes the rhyming pattern in this song, repeating the word twice or more in most of the song, DSP adds some different flavors, singing pattern to make this song as different and has succeeded to an extent. However Ranina Reddy and Venu sang with style and trend that everyone is following now a days that messed up lots of words. Having said that this song grows slowly on listeners. Might be on charts for few weeks.

3. Raccha Rambola

Singers: Javed Ali, Rita

Lyrics: Srimani

Did I hear a song from Venky? DSP who is a staunch follower of Ilayaraja, I guess just ends there. He needs to sometimes hear and follow. what his Guru says. Ilayaraja in a recent on-stage performance said that each song has its own address, one song cannot be like other songs. If it is the other song, then this song doesn't exists. May be its not for just DSP, every other music director/director wannabe should carefully take a note of this. Srimani I guess is a follower of Ramajogayya Sastry, he wrote exactly in the same style. What ever it is, Raviteja might have a merry time with this song onscreen.

4. Gusa Gusa

Singers: Sagar, Sunitha

Lyrics: Anantha Sriram

Ananth Sriram who is the lead writer now a days made a mark for maintaining his standards. This song stands out from the rest of the songs in this album. Sagar and Sunitha has done decent job. DSP did an intelligent thing adding a sound effect to Sunitha's voice which makes it decent to listen. Guitar in interludes is decent. Sagar walks away with credit for the success of this song. DSP who is known for his melodies does this song decently. 

5. Kaatuka Kallu

Singers: Khushi Murali, Swetha Mohan, Chinna Ponnu

Lyrics: Chandrabose

Here comes the last song. Out and Out Mass song and looking at who wrote the lyrics no need to guess or listen to song to confirm this. Chandrabose is more and more becoming expert in writing such songs. Some times he goes over board by writing sub-standard lyrics, but sometimes he will be within limits, if that is so we are lucky and indeed we are this time. DSP mixes traditional instruments in between which adds a nice flavor to the song, The beats are foot tapping, perfectly suits the Mass Raja. However lately tunes are eating up words either prolonging or cutting them short. Gone are those days where lyricists used to oversee the song recording. Lately in an audio function a female lyricists said that he wasnt present at the time of the recording and was tensed how the song came out when audio is released. Not sure whom to blame in this process change,

Pick(s) of the album: Gusa Gusa, Kaatuka kallu, Jagadeka veera.

With this album DSP will not leap ahead in terms of success, but still will be comfortable maintaining his lead with other music directors. For Raviteja's movie and musical standards, this is more than his requirement, but for the standards DSP had set for himself this movie doesn't bring accolades from his music fans. If DSP's goal was to meet the movie and Mass Raja's fans expectations, he succeeded very much in this effort, hope the movie also meets such expectations.