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Music Aloud Playback – Best Indian Songs of 2025!
As 2025 enters its final day, welcome to the 16th edition of this yearly ritual of mine, one that has been deeply enriching and incredibly frustrating in equal measure! Personally, this hasn’t been a...
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Music Aloud Playback – Best Indian Songs of 2024!
Just a little over a day left before we complete the first quarter of this century. In last year’s roundup, I had featured nine different lists, the most I have ever done. Ironically, this year, due...
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Aadujeevitham (The Goat Life) – Music Review
Songs and soundtrack credits at the end. Palestinian singer Sanaa Moussa, who previously featured in composer A R Rahman’s Muhammad: The Messenger of God and Dil Bechara (and interestingly had a...
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Music Aloud Playback – Best Indian Songs of 2023!
Another year-end, another roundup. 15th edition of this activity that has now become a Christmas tradition for me. This year, I put a bit more effort than usual, partly to make up a bit for the...
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Music Aloud Playback – Best Songs of 2022!
Welcome to Music Aloud’s annual roundup #14! A couple of changes this time around, mostly incorporating feedback I have received for the previous editions. Firstly, I have included separate (but...
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Thallumaala – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs and musician credits at the end. I have posted videos where available, since that is the best way to enjoy these songs. Until a few days back, the wiki entry for Thallumaala translated the title...
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Hridayam – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs and album credits at the end. In interviews that Vineeth Sreenivasan and Hesham Abdul Wahab have given different media houses in the context of Hridayam, they mention that one of the primary...
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Music Aloud Playback – Best Indian Songs of 2021!
2022 is nearly upon us. As is Omicron, unfortunately. At this point, one can only wait and hope that Covid tires itself out before we run out of Greek letters. To reiterate what I said last year,...
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Tsunami – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs and musician credits at the end. There was a time when actors singing a song used to be a source of much excitement, given the rare occurrence it used to be. These days, however, with every...
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Music Aloud Playback – Best Indian Songs of 2020!
Thus, a very strange year – likely the strangest in most of our lifetimes – is about to come to an end. A year that, at least for me, underlined the value of music – it would have been quite...
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Saajan Bakery Since 1962 – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs and complete musician credits at the end. After employing his vocals quite effectively in Wifikku Speedilla for the movie Mariyam Vannu Vilakkoothi earlier this year, composer Prashant Pillai...
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Farewell, SPB..
Indha Degam Maraidhaalum… Isayay Malaruvai SPB. [Meaning: Even when the mortal form disappears, you will blossom as music, SPB] Certain public figures enter into our personal space and become family....
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Zam Zam – Music Review (Malayalam Movie Soundtrack)
Since the songs of Zam Zam/Paris Paris/Butterfly/That is Mahalakshmi (the respective Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada/Telugu remakes of Queen) all have the same tunes, I have just picked one of the...
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Music Aloud Playback – Best Songs of 2019!
The decade comes to an end in a few hours – in fact, it might have ended already in the some parts, by the time you read this post. It has been an eventful decade in every regard, equally so in music....
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Kumbalangi Nights – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs and musician credits at the end. I watched the movie over the weekend, so an obligatory spoiler alert for any contextual tidbit I might have thrown in. Cherathukal appears as the opening credits...
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June – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs and musician credits at the end. Bindu Anirudhan – the singer that the makers of June discovered through a talent hunt – proves to be quite a competent find in her delivery of Koodu Vittu...
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Neeyum Njanum – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs at the end. That Shreya Ghoshal is behind the mic delivering the song, and the fact that it seems to be based at least partly on reethigowla raga, are likely to take your mind back to one of the...
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Music Aloud Playback – Best Songs of 2018!
And just like that, another year is about to come to an end. Which means another bevy of annual roundups that you have already been subjected to, to which I humbly add my own. It’s been a mixed year...
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Odiyan – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs and musician credits at the end. If one goes through singer Shreya Ghoshal’s Malayalam portfolio, one will notice that the composer who has employed her singing the most – by a considerable...
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Thattumpurathu Achuthan – Music Review (Malayalam Soundtrack)
Songs and musician credits at the end. Composer Deepankuran gets two of Malayalam music’s most beloved singing doyennes – Chithra and Sujatha – to share credits in the same song after a long hiatus....
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