Thursday, May 30, 2013

Mallela theeramlo Sirimalle puvvu - Audio Review

Movie:      Mallelatheeramlo Sirimallepuvvu (2013)
Music:      Pavan Kumar
Director:   Rama Raju
Producer:  Uma Devi
Cast:          Kranthi Chand, Sri Divya
 
Touted as bold romantic cinema, yet another movie with Malle poovu as title brings curiosity in movie enthusastics. The title is different as is the movie. With SVSC, another sirimalle in title to attract viewers. All new names attached to this movie atleast for me and its my ignorance. The music in trailers generated interest in the movie and music.
 
This album has 10 songs out of which 5 are theme/instrumental. That shows that this album has completely movie situational based songs/music.

1. Matakandani[4:50]
Artist(s): Nithya Santhoshini
Lyricist: Uma Maheswar Rao

Nithya Santoshini a very well known singer starts the album with a slow melody. There is so much clarity in the music makes instantly listenable. Nithya Santoshini steals the limelight, good clarity in words, ఇంద్రధనసు was said so perfectly, which is missing lately. The violin accompanies the female singer so nicely this is one of the decent melodies recently heard. Lyrics are just perfect. Uma maheswara Rao will definetely make a good mark with this movie. Such a nice romantic song, the feel is good makes a feel good song.

2. Nee Needana[3:09]
Artist(s): Pranavi
Lyricist: Uma Maheswar Rao

Song starts with a nice humming accompanied by chorus and veena. Its been a while that we heard this instrument in songs. Another complete female singer song. Seems like the songs are made with a particular theme. Veena brings very good feel. Once again lyrics pretty much suits the mood of the song. Pranavi did a decent job with bringing in right feel and emotions.


3. Alaa Chandamaamanai[1:56]
Artist(s): Karunya
Lyricist: Uma Maheswar Rao
 
Hearing Karunya after a gap. His did complete justice to song and lyrics. His voice is as usual melodious. Unfortunate that this talent is getting wasted with not much chances. Paadi Roju laalini words didnt go well as it was heard paadi (paadi pantalu- cattle related) instead of paata paadatam (singing). It should have been   రోజు లాలి పాడనా instead of పాడి రోజు లాలినే .  I think lyricist was more particular about Praasa as the next line is ends with జాలినే. Anyways all nice and sweet things are always short in life. This song too. Leaves a good feeling and disappoints for being less than 2 minutes. Our fascination towards Moon is once again clear. As the song ends, we get lost in our imagination. This song has one of the decent endings of the songs compared to what we hear lately.

4. Mabbulu Kurise[5:57]
Artist(s): Kranthi
Lyricist: Uma Maheswar Rao

This song is another well made melody. However Kranthi could have been better when she says "santosham" and "samayam" in the pallavi. The interlude is so melodious that this song again will leave us immersed in the song. The songs hops up and down with the lyrics bringing a nice effect. The rhythm reminds of a old song, but it ends there. The hero is lyrics and Kranthi should have elevated the song but she just does her job. Longest song of the movie album. But doesnt feel that it is so long. The song mentions Mallela teeram is visible, which has to do with the movie. I guess this song comes as bits in the movie, thats why this might be such long.


5. Pilla Galula Pallakilo[3:10]
Artist(s): Lipsika
Lyricist: Uma Maheswar Rao

Lipsika Bhashyam from Paadutaa teeyaga, has gone miles ahead in terms of singing. Though she sang a dozen of songs so far, Poola Rangadu gave a bigger share and she is slowly getting there in terms of overall share of female singers. However her voice is still hasnt become commercial which has added to this song. Her voice is still pure, unaltered brings good feel for this song. She does justice to this song. Earlier song has veena, this has flute with simple rhythm. A perfect Telugu song and tune. Uma Maheswara Rao is a perfect fit to be a single card lyricist for this movie. So far he has done perfect job for a romantic movie. His words are simple yet touching.

6. Title (Theme)[2:27]Artist(s): Instrumental
Not just the hero, Who doesnt like Malle poovulu? We all do. This movie team has provided melodious mallepoolu ( swachamaina peratilo poosina malle poolu ) interms of songs and kudos to the team.

7. Antharmukham (Theme)[2:08]Artist(s): Pranavi

నేను ఏ అందమైన మనిషిని కలిసినా నాకు తోడుగా ఒక పాట  ఉంటుంది. కాని తనని చూసినప్పుడు ప్రపంచమే పాటగా అనిపించింది. This sets the mood of the song. The humming continues with this feel.  This dialog and theme tells us that a sensuous movie is in the making. Pranavi is good.

8. Advaitham (Theme)[2:36]Artist(s): Sri Soumya

నువ్వు కావాలనే కోరికలో నన్ను నేను కొల్పొయాను. వెనక్కి తిరిగి చూస్తె నేను లేను, అదే అద్వైతం అయితే ఆ స్తితి నీలో పొందాను. So beautifully written. hats off to the team for bringing such heart touching dialogs and as usual well thought and made. The theme then continues with the same feeling. Visuals should be fantastic for this music.

9. Matakandani (Theme)[2:08]Artist(s): Instrumental

పాట జీవితం కాక పోవచ్చు, కాని పాడటం జీవితం లో చిన్న సంతోషం. ఆ చిన్న సంతోషాన్ని గౌరవించిన మనిషికి ఏమి ఇవ్వాలో అర్థం కాలేదు నాకు నన్ను తప్ప.  This theme is for the song that was sung by Nityasantoshini.

10. Mallelatheeram (Theme)[3:17]Artist(s): Instrumental

లోకం స్వేచ్చ గురించి మాట్లాడుతుంది కాని ఇవ్వదు. తను గీసిన గీత లోనే బ్రతకమంటుంది.  మనిషి అంతే. స్వేచ్చ గురించి వాదిస్తాడు కాని గౌరవిన్చడు. కాని నచ్చిన వ్యక్తి కి నిర్ణయించుకునే హక్కు ఇవ్వటం కన్నా గొప్ప స్వేచ్చ లేదని నమ్ముతాను. The referene to Rama/Sita is inevitable for any pair in any story. The dialog was said perfectly. After a long time a movie is made with some theme music which is equivalent to number of songs and dominate the songs. They should elevate the visuals to new heights if actors support the music. Given the way the album is made it just re-iterates the fact that this is going to be visual treat as well.
 
Pick(s) of the album: Entire Album for Melody, theme based music lovers, who wish to listen to pure Telugu songs..
 
This music certainly impresses the movie lovers as it is well made for the movie. This music displays the mood, theme, emotions rightly for the movie. The lyrics are perfectly written. Singers do good justice to the song. Surprisingly it is all female singers except for one song by karunya who sings a lullaby probably for female lead. So subtle and gentle the songs doesnt strain the ears, few of them touches the heart. The theme music and the dialogs are well thought, said, sung and made. As said many times, any romantic movie should be rightly assisted by music to elevate the scenes and this perfectly does it. The songs and theme music totals to 36 minutes which is almost 1/3 of the movie leaves a good feeling towards the movie. It now depends upon the actors, story teller to reach this music to audience.
 

Om 3D - Audio Review

Movie:        OM - 3D (Telugu - 2013)
Producer:   Kalyanram
Direction:   Kalyanram
Cast:           Kalyanram, Kriti Karbanda,
Music:        K.Sai Karthik, Achu
 
KalyanRam started off his career with a bang in terms of Athanokkade, but ever since then he is struggling to make it huge, though on and off he is tasting minor successes. His passion towards movies never faded away. He is sincere in his attempts and his passion is unquestionable. However there are many factors that kept him away to make it huge. He made a mark in the industry just with his passion.

This movie is boasted as first action 3D film in India. It takes some guts to make such movie and spend so much money on himself in self direction. That shows his love towards movies. Kalyanram's movies werent such huge music hits in his film career although there were decent hits. Manisharma took the major pie from his movies, RP Patnaik, Chakri and Srikath Deva were other directors. This time two persons worked for this movie, K Sai Karthik and Achu, both are yet to make it big. K Sai Karthik recently launched "Paisa", Starring Nani, the movie of Krishna Vamsi.  This album consists of a promo song and a Theme music which reduces the number to four that are routine songs. Lyrics department looks fine. B Subbaraya Sarma Dont think he is the character artist.  Ramajoggayya means there will be a multilingual mass song. Singers are again pretty standard now a days. Baba Sehgal for sure is making a lot in Telugu now a days, not sure whether he gets that many chances in Hindi or not. Anyways lets see how the songs fare for the much interest generated movie.

1. Promo Song[2:40]
Artist(s): Baba Sehgal
Lyricist: B. Subbaraya Sharma

Song on Hero, has to be powerful. However since the lyrics are powerful, the voice and sound of the song should be powerful too. The song starts with a high energy tune, then Baba Sehgal tries to says words which doesnt mean anything for him, but for us it should make sense, unfortunately doesnt. Too much వ్యధ, రొద. His voice is not heard properly, the music overtook the singer and his lack of clarity makes it worse. All it is that we hear some music and with OM in between and ends with the same. Since its promo song, shouldnt matter for movie. Tune wise no issues, but some minute details like providing clarity to words and instruments would have made this song more listenable. 

2. Cheliya[3:27]
Artist(s): Achu, Ramya Nsk
Lyricist: Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Any song that has stamp of Sirivennela proves his versatality. Achu's stylish singing can be ignorable. In the sound oriented songs, the lyric is lost. Cant understand even a bit of what Sirivennela has written. Coming to the tune, for sure is catchy, interludes are nice though remind some other song. Again the song lacks clarity, the recording could have been better. This song is much better made. Except for the orchestration and some issues in Achu's singing, this song will work.


3. Right Now[2:59]
Artist(s): Baba Sehgal, Bindhu Mahima
Lyricist: Ramajogayya Sastry

RJS is back with his trademark multilingual lyric. Baba Sehgal singing his part of rap and other stuff. Suddenly beat changes in between, to make it more beat oriented. This song has variety in terms of mix and matching everything as Mama was ordered to do it. The tune, beat, rap and style are changed. Bindu Mahima twisted and turned the words didnt bring the right effect. She said right now, but after that many words are very hard to get. Baba Sehgal did better in this song, may be due to his trademark tune/singing. 

4. Holi Holi[3:30]
Artist(s): Ranjith, Priya Himesh
Lyricist: Kedarnath

This song is highy energetic. The beats and lyrics will bring in holi mood. Priya Himesh seemed to have less energy compared to Ranjith in second stanza, however it is covered by chorus and Ranjith. Highly addictive beats, extremely energetic chorus, electrifying interludes.  Kedarnath filled in some rhyming words. If rightly choreographed and performed the visuals of this song should be a treat. Not sure how Kalyanram will fare in this song.

5. Endukila[4:00]
Artist(s): Haricharan, Chinmayee
Lyricist: Balaji
Good to see Chinmayee in this movie. She is extremely talented and gifted. Her voice aptly suited this song. However like other songs, instruments were loud enough to over shadow the female singer. Haricharan in second stanza was not so pleasant to hear. A soft melody with a slower tempo would have been much better while keeping instruments simpler. But still this song is fine. Movie might add some value to this song.


6. OM Theme[2:22]
Artist(s): Sai Charan, Dinker
Lyricist: Sahithi
Why Lyricist is named as Sahithi for this song when all it contains is "అసతోమ జ్యోతిర్గమయ..." The theme music generally aid the visuals. Unless the visuals are seen, it is very difficult to say whether the theme music made an impact or not. The theme was done alright. Need to see how it fares on the screen.

Pick(s) of the album: Cheliya, Holi Holi, to some extent Endukilaa

Since this is a 3D movie, the focus will be on action and visuals, might not be on songs. However Sai Karthik and Achu need to do a good job for re-recording which is very critical for these kind of movies. Kalyanram got should have been happy with music's output as there were not much expectations. Though there is not much to say about the music which is extra ordinary or to make it big, two decent songs and couple of others might help the music over all. Kalyanram is going to create history when movie releases, Wish the team all the very best for the success of the movie and the hard work they have put in.