Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist.
Week 167: On Spotify | On YouTube
12 songs this week. Both Spotify and YouTube playlists have all the songs.
Garda, Chaka Chak, Tere Rang & Little Little, Rait Zara Si – Atrangi Re (A R Rahman) – Hindi: Garda, with its celebratory sound, is a wonderfully joyous song. The ‘Dale dora re, Baaga gora gora re’ hook stays, along with the very-Bihari expression, ‘Sala garda uda diye’, uttered by none other than the film’s writer and co-producer, Himanshu Sharma! Chaka Chak took me back to Rahman’s late-90s output given how ebullient and lively the whole package was. Shreya Ghoshal is, as always, phenomenally good. Tere Rang is an absolute beauty that screams Rahman’s style in every single way! This is the kind of song that would be sung by choice in singing competition shows on TV! Even within the semi-classical melody of the tune, the interludes offer a grand orchestral flourish. The song is a superb showcase of Shreya and Haricharan’s singing, and Rahman juxtaposes their voices so beautifully.
Little Little has an easy-going tune to suit Dhanush’s singing range and the lyrics too support it with simple, rhyming words like Dear, Near, Fear, Cheer 
The backgrounds are a lovely hat-doff to Indira’s Odakkaara Maarimuthu! Rait Zara Si, though, is the soundtrack’s best! This is the kind of melody where the mukhda and antara extend vibrantly and merge into pure music. And then that Tamil phrase in between (Vaasam Veesuthadi), besides the thavil-based rhythm! Arijit Singh and Shashaa Tirupati are superb here!
Uruttu, It’s Raining Love & Aasai Reprise – Enna Solla Pogirai (Vivek-Mervin) – Tamil: Uruttu is good fun, using famous/familiar phrases (like Sweet Edu Kondaadu) and a catchy Middle eastern vibe. It’s Raining Love is perfectly in Vivek-Mervin zone – uptempo and very catchy, almost like an early-Harris Jayaraj melody. Aasai is already a mesmerizing melody, but Vivek-Mervin up the ante by getting Bombay Jayashri for a Reprise! And she does a smashingly good job in offering her own perspective on the tune’s beauty.
Arike Ninna – Hridayam (Hesham Abdul Wahab) – Malayalam: Hesham builds the tempo of the melody slowly and it gets accentuated beautifully because of the choice of the singer – Job Kurian!
Kugramame – Minnal Murali (Sushin Shyam) – Malayalam: Sushin extends his incredibly cool 80s synth sound—that he so wonderfully delivered in Thee Minnal—in a shorter song, here.
Malebille – Drishya 2 (Ajaneesh B Loknath) – Kannada: A pleasant surprise from Ajaneesh for a film that’s not particularly known for its music (in any language) as much as it’s lauded for its script! I thought the raaga was Pilu and that probably explains why the tune worked for me almost immediately.
Rang – Shekhar Ravjiani (Indipop): Vishal-Shekhar’s Shekhar has been less proficient recently on his own, and given his fantastic singing, it’s great to see him try his solo act again with Rang. It’s a simple, but very engaging tune. With that accordion in the backdrop, the song has a beautiful European vibe even as the lyrics make it seem so very Indian at heart.
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