Akhil - Audio Review

Movie: Akhil - The Power of Jua ( )

Producer(s): Nitin,Sudhakar Reddy

Cast: Akkineni Akhil and Sayesha Saigal

Direction: VV Vinayak

Music: Anup Rubens, SS Thaman

Akhil Akkineni who started movies with Sisindri, (which was freemake of Baby's Day Out) never ventured into movies until Manam, which was made for Akkineni Nageswara Rao. There was lot of buzz around his debut as hero into Telugu Film Industry, when kids of other heros already made into movies. After Nagarjuna, Sumanth, Chaitanya and Sushanth couldnt make it big even though they made few successful movies. All Akkineni family fans hopes were on Akhil to be in top league of movie industry. 

There were many names heard before VV Vinayak's name was confirmed for debuting Akhil. The title was named after him with Tag line "The power of Jua". Immediately people googled to find Jua is Sun in Swahili language that is used in African countries. So this movie is going to be a romantic adventurous movie is the speculation his fans had. 

Anup Rubens who gave super success music for Manam was chosen to compose this movie. However they decided to add more power to the music department to me more youthful, more trendy in the form of Thaman. However it seems like Manisharma will be scoring back ground music. Bhaskarabhatla and KrishnaChaitanya shared the lyrics. 

The audio is released on birthday of Late Akkineni Nageswara Rao garu. Lets see how the Power of Jua for music is..

1. Hey Akhil

Singer(s): Rahul Pandey, Anup Rubens, Chorus

Lyrics: Krishna Chaitanya

Music: Anup Rubens

Seems like this song is completely aimed at promoting Akhil. There is a good pace in the song, beats that suits nice dance moves, youth based tune that youth can crune this tune. Akhil is the movie name, song is Akhil's name and the actor is Akhil, what else Akkineni fans want? Krishna Chaitanya wrote completely youth based song, which is supported by Rahul and Chorus. Having said that the tune is lacking freshness, variety. Other than that it should appeal fans and they should have a great time in theater.

2. Akkineni Akkineni

Singer(s): Divyakumar, Bhargavi, Uma Neha, Mohana

Lyrics: Krishna Chaitanya

Music: Anup Rubens

Audience, Who are familiar with Thaman's dappulu, will think that this song is composed by him, but it seems like this song is composed by Anup. When working as a team, they got to get inspiration from one other. This Song Krishna Chaitanya wrote revolves around the word matching. With the way awards are given these days, this song could be potential filmfare best song winner :) Again, the singers cannot be very clearly differentiated, all sound the same. This song is the easiest composition ever made I guess. The rhythm is defined, the words pattern is defined all music director has to do is say the singers sing the words rhythmically. And if they cannot, auto-tuner is there to help them. So all set.

3. Padesave

Singer(s): Karthik, MM Manasi

Lyrics: Bhaskarabhatla Ravikumar

Music: Thaman SS

Why the title of the song is labeled as "Padessavae"? There is no such word in Telugu. Thaman gave his talent to Anup in Akkineni song and tried to be different in this song. However as long as tune is not refreshing, how hard he tries to be different doesn't help him. Karthik as usual rocks but he showed some Tamil accent while saying few words like Bhaggumannade, which is quite unusual from him. This song since doesn't get churned into auto-tuner which is very surprising. Thaman's template is written all over but still appears different. Bhaskarabhatla tried to write a song but doesnt go anywhere with the lyrics. The interludes accompanied by chorus looks good without chorus though. Overall a decent song in this album.

4. Nenekkadunte ( Energy )

Singer(s): Rajit, Sharanya, Bhargavi, RAP: Rahul Rido

Lyrics: Krishna Chaitanya

Music: Anup Rubens

Dynamic rocking guitar starts the song on high energy, but there on-wards, the song takes entirely different twists and turns which doesn't match the energy except the word "Energy". The interlude uses the popular music, and the dance floor beaten tunes. Then Krishna Chaitanya tries to use words which sync together, but doesnt appeal much. This is out and out dance song. Hope Akhil gets some good moves to make his fans happy. This song severely needs help from Screen. Once again auto-tuner used. I have seen many people think to be modern the auto-tuner has to be used. I don't see this much usage of auto tuner anywhere else than in Telugu. All this is happening because every one wants latest trendy music, and often gets misunderstood even though using auto tuner doesn't make any song trendy, next generation and youthful. I sincerely hope people realize that. 

5. Zara Zara Navvarade

Singer(s): Divya Kumar, Mohana Bhogaraju, Rahul Sipligunj Uma Neha RAP: Srikar

Lyrics: Bhaskarabhatla Ravikumar

Music: Anup Rubens

This song is written with an algorithm. To accommodate, so many singers for a song it needs too much kind hearted from music director, However when auto tuner is used, do we need so many singers at all is a huge question one gets when they listen to this song. So many singers listed, but we hear all of them sound like Anup. 

Anup like these days music directors is very good at using his own/others tunes and putting them in auto-tuner and change things here and there to sound it as a different song. Lyrics will be different anyways. Singers when they pronounce Undalani pithonde,, instead of pistonde, they sound horribly sarcastic. Is it due to auto-tuner of singers? Better the lyricists use Hindi, English or even Tamil, instead of Telugu, when singers don't know how to pronounce them. We can hear them and stop complaining.

I heard many tunes of other songs in this song. How directors and producers are paying for rehashed tunes and on the top, do we need three music directors for a movie for already heard songs? Are we in such a pathetic situation that we cannot get any more new tunes from these music directors? Something the movie makers need to think. Anyways another song which will need Akhils help to elevate. May be these songs are designed to be such low quality so that the hero can elevate them and prove the power of Jua. :)

Pick(s) of the album: Padesave, Hey Akhil.

Akhil's debut has been made with latest concept of trendy, youthful, next generation music, where auto tuner is used so generously, tunes are rehashed so generously. Few songs are made to show case Akhil's dancing prowess, few made to make him look beautiful on screen. If he can give strength to the songs, it will add more weight to him as a star. If that is the goal, then it is all achieved. All the best for yet another star from the Legend Akkineni's family and hope he shows the power of Jua.

Kanche - Audio Review

Movie: Kanche (కంచె )

Producer(s): Saibabu Jagarlamudi, Y. Rajeev Reddy

Cast: Varun Tej, Pragya Jaiswal, Srinivas Avasarala, Nikitin Dheer

Direction: Krish

Music: Chirantan Bhatt

When the trailer of Kanche was released on September 1st 2015, the entire TFI was awestruck. That was the impact Krish created on the audience. He was able to distract viewers who were stuck with Bahubali, to take a look and applause his effort. Everyone started thinking from where did this come from, what happened to this all along. Kanche title itself was different and the love in war backdrop something is not seen recently in Telugu. Krish after working and completing Gabbar is back in Hindi, he came back to Telugu and brought along with him Chirantan Bhatt. He earlier worked with Ramcharan for Zanjeer. 

Varun Tej's after Mukunda getting into this movie proves he not only looks different from the Mega crowd, his choice also is completely different. Its really daring attempt by a new comer to choose this type of movie with a different backdrop which he might not be sure how audience will grace. Hope he gets success with this movie.

Krish is working with Sirivennela and so far he was able to extract excellent work from him. In this movie also he wrote entire songs, which has 5 songs and a theme music. Singers are chirantan Bhatt's choice obviously. Lets see what the duo of Krish and Sirivennela did.

1. Itu Itu Ani Chitikelu evvarivo

Singer(s): Abhay Jodhpurkar, Shreya Ghoshal

Lyrics: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry

The album starts with a duet which is active in the sense of lead pair involving in it actively, as it goes with good energy. However Abhay seems to have struggled singing this song. He was off during the starting and many places. May be due to being alien to Telugu. Shreya's voice was also not pleasant. Shreik and probably she wanted to match Abhay, she too performed badly. The tune is beaten could be due to situation. Overall the song doesnt appeal because of not so good singing by the singers. Dont these music directors want their song to be hit? Why do they make bad choice of singers is something to wonder. Some mess up by singing themselves, some mess up with alien to language singers and some bad choices they make. Having said that the saving grace is lyrics by Sirivennela and probably classic touch here and there and picturization on the screen. 

2. Ooru Eru Ayyindi Eru Horettindi

Singer(s): Shankar Mahadevan

Lyrics: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry

This song could the the song that cover holds the still of male lead Varun Tej having great time with the group. The beats are good, has energy, the melody in interludes and Shankar's singing makes song audible. However tune again is beaten. The song does not appear fresh at all. Shankar too had issues with words is something we keep worry about. Chorus is good. Still waiting for Sirivennela's magic. So far its not visible. Did I hear somebody singing was way off after first stanza and second interlude? Too many singing issues so far. Audio is not done with care or what? A song again that might survive due to Krish and Sirivennela. Nothing notably great in terms of music and singing.

3. Nijamenani Nammani

Singer(s): Shreya Ghoshal

Lyrics: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry

I thought I heard who ever sang initial alaap miss a note or two. Was it Shreya? If so very surprising. A well made pathos. Shreya Ghoshal didnt sound like her. May be the label is wrong. Except for small issue in alap this song is good to listen. Interludes are good, singing brings out the mood, the instrumentation was given right volume when required. Simple, yet good song. Some instruments which are rare to hear these days are heard. Finally ends well. Overall a good song to hear in this album. Still waiting for the powerful song(s) that Krish and Sirivennela are known for.

4. Bhaga Bhaga mani

Singer(s): Vijay Prakash

Lyrics: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry

There comes the trademark song. First the lyrical treat and then could be a visual treat too. Got used to SPB for these type of songs who brings the required power to the song, however even though Vijay's voice misses the magnanimity, the song didn't miss what it is required.This song absolutely needs pronouncing prowess, lack of it doesnt elevate the song. Vijay Prakash doesnt sound like Telugu, but the tune and lyrics cover this limitation. So tough song for listeners to listen and understand. We are hearing many songs these days having complex words, but when the sum up they dont make sense, However whenever Sirivennela writes a song, it takes some time for every one to understand the real meaning of what he meant, as he never writes a song without proper depth of meaning in it He never writes a song something that doesn't really correlates to movie. The song ending soon is something that disappoints the fans as they expect one more krishnam vande jagadgurum type of song, hope there is one more. Chirantan Bhatt did justice to the tune, but hope he and Vijay Prakash will understand what it is meant by providing justice to lyrics. 

5. Raa mundadugeddam

Singer(s): Vijay Prakash, Keerti Sugatiya

Lyrics: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry

Thanks to Krish and Sirivennela for not disappointing the fans. This is what fans will look for. This song provides intensity of the war, intensity of the love, power of love. The song shifts gears with few mind boggling questions, Sirivennela garu, hats off to you for such a wonderful song. This song credits should have been for more singers I guess. I guess this song comes in bits and pieces in the movie as some continuity doesn't match up. Whether Alaps, chorus could have been better. Whether this song would have made been better yes, whether song is good, yes, whether lyrics are excellent yes, singers could have been better, yes. Did we enjoy the song, yes. Something like this feeling leaves the listener at the end of the song. 

6. Prema-Yuddam ( Love - War )

Theme Music

Pick(s) of the album: Nijamenani Nammani, Bhaga Bhaga mani, Raa mundadugeddam, Theme music.

This theme sums up all about the movie. Director has done a great job in composing the them. This is magnanimous and sure to elevate the scenes that will have an excellent picturization by Krish. Given the backdrop of the movie, this music perfectly fits to the core. 

This album is starts slowly creating a different impression but ends up to be good. It progresses in everything as the songs pass by one after another. Thanks to the power of Krish and Sirivennela combo that doesn't disappoint us. The songs standard increases one after another after starting pretty normal. I guess that is strategic placing of the songs in the album. We will need more of these type of albums for the sake of complete song lovers which has good power of lyrics. Thanks and wish Krish all the very best.

Srimanthudu Audio Review

Movie: Srimanthudu ( శ్రీమంతుడు )
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Sruti Haasan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Jagapati Babu 
Direction: Koratala Siva
Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Producers: Y. Naveen, Y. Ravi Shankar and C. V. Mohan

Appologetic Mahesh Babu's is making another honest attempt to please his fans in the name of "Srimanthudu". His last movie was huge disappointment and created many issues to his director too. This movie was originally supposed to be released in May 2015 however due to various reasons movie got delayed and when the movie was announced to be released on 17th July, it had to be postponed again due to request from Bahubali's producers as that movie released on 10th July. Now the planned release of this movie is 7th August. Not sure if that date is safe enough in the mania that Bahubali has created. However Mahesh's fans are confident enough that their movie will be super hit irrespective of release date. This is backed by the teaser released on Superstar Krishna's birthday. The cycle (bike ) used in this movie was estimated to cost 35 lakhs INR.

Mahesh Babu worked with SS Thaman before Sukumar's 1 nenokkadine. DSP and Sukumar combination won at that time, even though Mahesh/Thaman's combination was working. 1 Nenokkadine even though movie failed, music didn't fail. For Aagadu both failed. Also DSP scored the music for Koratala's last movie Mirchi. Probably thats the reason why DSP got chance to score music for this movie.

Ramajogaiah Sastry has written all lyrics of this movie except one song that was written by DSP himself. Lately DSP is writing lyrics to his songs and they are becoming hits. Guess he might have come with some laudable lyrics this time too. There is a song titled "Dimma Tirige" which is famous punch dialog of Mahesh Babu. Seems like RJS utilized that popular word effectively in  a song which might appeal his fans. 

MLR Karthikeyan who became singer after getting inspired by DSP is getting on and off chances with DSP and other music directors. In this movie he got to sing the title song. DSP sang one song and his brother who mostly sings for him got chance to croon a melody. Rest are his standard singers. No big surprises. Lets see what the "Rocking Start DSP" did for this album.

1."Rama Rama"   

Singer(s): Sooraj Santhosh, Ranina Reddy

Lyrics:    Ramajogaiah Sastry

RJS tried to tell entire story of Ramayana in one song. Though his lyrics were normal the music was modern. The story of Rama however told will be beautiful so is this one. The chorus which says Mara Mara to eventually become Rama sounded good even though it takes to another song. The beats are energetic so is the singing. The words are clear. The repeated words which also sounded good. "Daan Tassadiyya" RJS choose right words, right lines to depict Rama and connect to the character and movie. Some Praasa words sounded silly, but didn't look awkward so they gelled well. Singers were good, song is good, a little bit freshness would have taken it to a better level. But sure an enjoyable song. For sure it will also appear good on the screen due to Mahesh's screen presence. 

2. "Jata Kalise"   

Singer(s): Sagar, Suchitra

Lyrics:    Ramajogaiah Sastry

Sagar and Suchitra got good chance to present a beautiful melody. Suchitra was little feeble probably due to recording song added some effects to the voice. She didn't sound strong. A traditional melody song from DSP from his side there are no issues, some how I feel singers could have done it lot better. due to which this remains a good song, which would have be a lot better.  "చదివేస్తున్న, అచ్చు" type words are not sung properly. Melody written all over. So its for all who like these type. RJS who  write multilingual songs wrote some beautiful words in Telugu this time. A sweet surprise from the lyricist and DSP as usual gave a good melody. This song leaves a good feeling because of these two.

3. "Charuseela"   

Singer(s): Yazin Nizar, Devi Sri Prasad (Rap)

Lyrics:    Devi Sri Prasad

The album suddenly brings in the Rock Star DSP. Lyrics are targeted for youth and since its rock song, its exactly the same. DSP sings the RAP part and Yazin's stylish singing is something to note in this song. Standard routine song from DSP. Have to see if Koratala Siva adds something on screen with some choreographic wonders with Mahesh. This song seems to be aimed at youthful fans and they will like it. For others its their choice : :)

4. "Srimanthuda"   

Singer(s): M. L. R. Karthikeyan

Lyrics:    Ramajogaiah Sastry

This song stands out in the album. Well made song. Singing, lyrics, tune and everything worked out well. RJS has written some sensible couplets.  "సాయం సమాజమే" "నీ గేయం నిరంతరం" "విశ్వమంతా  పేరు పేరునా ప్రేమ పంచే పసితనమా" . The chorus has well supported the lead singer. The mood, feel is clearly visible. The picturization should elevate the lead character and fans should feel it. Hope Koratala did good justice to this song. Unfortunately it longs only  2:03.

5. "Jaago"   

Singer(s): Raghu Dixit, Rita

Lyrics:    Ramajogaiah Sastry

Another song aimed at Youth. Song sounds loud instead of energetic. Raghu's seems to have put more energy than required. Guitar Rocks. Beats are ok. DSP doesn't offer much in this song other than super energy. After so much energy, things take turn when female singer sings in between and before the song gets on its usual track. RJS comes back to his usual stuff. 

6. "Dimmatirigae"   

Singer(s): Simha, Geetha Madhuri

Lyrics:    Ramajogaiah Sastry

Evadu kodite Dimmatirigi potundo is a synonym sentence for Mahesh a punch dialog from his earlier movie. RJS used this for the item song. This song again another routine song. Singers, RJS and DSP has nothing much to offer other than provide a standard routine item song. Simha who got film-fare award for his song last year doesn't sound great so is Geeta Madhuri, But for this type song they are just fine. 

Pick(s) of the album: Srimantudu, Rama Rama, Jata Kalise

DSP provided an album with 3 good songs and 3 routine songs. Its been a while where DSP provided album that competed with each other to say which one is better than the other. In another words that had 6/6 hits. Given this album, this should be decent enough from Mahesh and his fans as it has good number of songs which they can feel happy about. DSP some how managing to provide a decent melody, good title song and a decent duet. However thats standard expectation from any music director, but if has to go to a different league, I guess he should provide more and probably work on not provide template songs. There are many expectations on him and hope he works towards that. For now this is a decent album and should help the movie. 

Bahubali Audio Review

Movie: Bahubali ( బాహుబలి )

Producer: Shobu Yarlagadda, Prasad Devineni (Arka Media)
Cast: Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah, Ramya Krishna 
Direction: SS Rajamouli
Music: MM Keeravani

Boasted as the costliest movie that India has ever produced, after many years of gap, SS Rajamouli is coming with this magnum opus "Baahubali" which will be in two parts. The hype for this movie has reached sky, that was never seen before for any movie till date. A multilingual movie which will create records just for getting released in sheer number of theatrical releases this movie will have. Also the cost of movie is anywhere between 125 crores Indian Rupees to latest told by director which is 250 crores for both parts of the movie. We are hearing different numbers for cost, but director himself declared its 250 crores so have to believe him. There by with that number, making the costliest movie ever produced. SS Rajamouli has got Prabhas committed to this movie a top hero not having a release for two years is a huge risk mainly when he is in prime of his career. The story and Rajamouli's brand would have made Prabhas committed for this movie. 

The cast and technicians are huge for this movie. Most fantastic names in the field coming together is like a fascination coming true for any movie lover. When this kind of team comes together with the graphics team that is again best. no one will expect anything lesser than wonder. This is the sheer reason for the expectations going high for the movie. The marketing strategy using social media also worked wonders for the team so far. However on the flip side, able to meet this expectation is going to be huge uphill task tor the taskmaster like SS Rajamouli. He has so far lived to the expectations. 

However the film has been getting criticized for all the work so far done by netizens as they could find a original source. Even in Audio Satyaraj took the avatar video of trailer as example to set the expectations that for now its hollywood to tollywood, but in future it would be other way round. 

The cast is again best possible fit for the movie. Prabhas, Rana, Tamannah, Anushka, Ramyakrishna, Satyaraj, Nazar, and many more make this a treat to watch just for the cast. However whether the cast can sustain the expectations is a question that will be answered as the movie gets released.

Music for the movie composed by MM Keeravani. This type of epic movie will need huge support from Music department. Rajamouli and Keeravani are good team. They understand each other very well, so there will not be any issue with that. However the challenge is to not only meet the grandeur of the movie, but also should meet the nativity of different languages. This will be a huge task for the movie. Some songs if they didn't recompose, will be an issue in the other languages. This will be interesting to see how they have met this challenge. Keeravani has set of lyric writers whom he will go with and set of singers whom he will not deviate from. This exactly happened to this movie too.. For Magadheera, the songs werent so good compared to movie, but once the movie was hit, the songs caught up with movie and became hit. Need to see whether the same happens for this movie too or the movie and music will get independent success without depending upon each other. There are 8 songs with Dheevara getting an English version, so technically its 7 songs. I expected more songs or clips for this kind of magnanimous movie, but the team might have had different plans.

Lets see how did audio fare for this movie.

1. Mamatala Talli

Singer(s): Satya Yamini

Lyrics: K. Siva Sakti Dutta

Keeravani's father wrote the lyrics of this song. Paalkadali is something probably written keeping Tamil release in mind. In Telugu it should be Paala Kadali in Tamil it becomes PaalKadal. As I said before the lyrics and tunes have to meet multilingual releases. The song takes from a slow pace to high voltage keeping pace constant. Then the voltage switches back and forth. The tune is not new or fresh. The instrumentation makes this song different. By breaking Mamatala talli and then odi baahubali, the meaning didn't get conveyed. Not sure what was the reason for this break. Odi baahubali doesnt make sense. Guess this song is when the baby born named bahubali. This kind of powerful songs should get right breaks for the meanings, but the tune and lyrics were out of sync so failed to get the emotion right. The saving grace is instruments and this added by picturization will be at peak. But individually the song fails to strike the right chord.

2. Jeevanadi

Singer(s): Geeta Madhuri

Lyrics: Inaganti Sundar

If this song is as the credit says by Geeta Madhuri, then she did well. Her voice normally doesn't appeal but at this voice modulation, she sounded lot better. It is very hard to believe that it is her voice though. Short length song is situational so again depends on Rajamouli. Songwise no issues and singing wise singer did well enough.

3. Dheevara

Singer(s): Ramya Behara, Deepu

Lyrics: Ramajogiah Sastry, K Siva Sakti Datta

Ramajogiah sastry and Siva Datta worked together to make this song. Keeravani's trust for Ramya always works. She is just fantastic. Somehow Deepu voice was not grand enough for this song. The chorus with Siva datta's words were just treat for listeners. I am sure Rajamouli would have done just fantastic picturization to which which his cult fans will go gaga over this song. Mainly during the chorus part. Except for Deepu for no reason became weak link in this song, this song is instant hit. This song just for the Dheevara part will be hit for sure.

4. Sivuni Aana

Singer(s): MM Keeravani, Mounima

Lyrics: Inaganti Sundar

The percussion arrangements has been good so far in this album. This song starts with Siva tandava Stotram not sure the song is not related though to the rest of the song. Inaganti Sundar wrote the situational song. Keeravani composed the tune very well to carry the right emotion of the song. But his singing is completely off. His high pitch was shriek, his voice didn't have enough depth, not enough clarity in pronunciation, his voice didn't suit the song at all. Not sure why he chose to sing this song. He has unintentionally ruined the song I believe since he might not have found the right singer to sing this song, he chose to sing himself. Why he didn't try SPB not sure. SPB would have elevated this song to next level. This song is for sure is a good song, but would have been a lot lot better song for sheer power of siva tandava strotram, tune, beats everything is better except for Keeravani. So bad..

5. Pacha Bottesi

Singer(s): karthik, Damini

Lyrics: Anantha Sriram

A pretty routine song.  వేయి జన్మాల tune has messed up adding extra deergam which is not required. Tune is also not refreshing. Damini when she started singing, the words were not clear. పిల్ల గాడా  నీతో has become "పిల్ల  గాడానితొ". Need more hearings to understand the words. Not sure when they make such a grand film they miss some minute details in lyrics or singing by singers. And with Keeravani at the helm. May be they got tired with correcting singers. Ananth Sriram as usual did justice to his name/brand. I thought Keeravani rehashed few tunes is the very reason for not getting a fresh feel. This song reminds me of the song that was not very hit before Magadheera album later on went on to become hit regarding the fate of the song. This might become hit later on who knows.

6. Manohari

Singer(s): Mohana Bhogaraju, Revanth

Lyrics: Chaitanya Prasad

This sing appears to be made for Tamilians. The tune has Tamil nativity. The song appears to be made so that music director's job is easy. Revanth did very good job. His voice sounds so better. Compared to the other songs, this song has more energy and vigor. Revanth carried right expressions in this song very beautifully. Mohana did just fine. Listening to Veena after a long time. I get fantastic feel when I hear this instrument which is almost getting lost with modern music directors who live on electronic sounds and instruments.

7. Nippule Swasaga

Singer(s): MM keeravani

Lyrics: Inaganti Sundar

Inaganti Sundar is lucky to get major pie in lyrics department in SSRM family movie. Is this song prelude of the war? I guess so. Then its a perfect fit for the situation. The words are good, singing by chorus is good, the beats have the intensity, tune has the feel of the situation, given the war situation then this song will just elevate the scenes so well that this is what Keeravani is know for and is expected to do. What keeravani has sung could have been a different bit song by itself. And this song could have started from Maahishmati.. This would have been perfect. Once again Keeravani's voice was feeble. This kind of songs need heavy voice with great depth. Anyways movie will cover it up.

8. Dheevara ( English Version )

Singer(s): Ramya Behara, Aditya

Lyrics: Noel Sean, Aditya

I guess this song is made to meet international audience. After listening to the first version of the song. This song doesn't appeal as much as the initial version. If heard for the first time, this song will appeal. For who heard the first one already, they can skip this version, but Dheevara portion of this song makes one to hear this song as well.

Pick(s) of the album: Dheevara, Manohari, Nippule Swasaga.

Knowing the background of the movie, the story, the expectations are set for this album. People will not be ready to accept if this is not grand. This album some how makes one feel that it lacks that magnanimity feel. This album will have more variety of moods, situations so getting a song fit into this kind of movie is very difficult and at the same meeting unknown expectations is also very tough task. The album is ordinary when there is a comparison to the cost of movie, other wise its just fine. The background music for this movie will have to be right,whether songs are fine or not is something required for normal movies which will drag audience to movie because of songs. However this kind of movie already reached audience. Music only set the expectations probably more, so with this album, they will not have such problems/ Having said that songs will not meet the expectations just for lacking grand feeling might not be a problem for the movie as such. Cant imagine any current music directors who can do justice to this movie other than Keeravani. The song for the baby born to bahubali could have been more powerful, then Sivuni Aana if not for keeravani would have been better. 3 songs are pretty normal. Which leaves 3 out of 8 songs and of which one is English version. So going by number 2 out of 8 is not what audience will want. Statistics apart. this movie is all set for Telugu movie goer to be proud for having such huge film become reality. All the best for the team for having spent innumerous sleepless nights to get something the team dreamt to make their fascination to reality.