Week 172: On Spotify | On YouTube
11+ (+, because of versions of the same song, from Badhaai Do) songs! All the songs are available on both YouTube and Spotify!
Atak Gaya, Hum Thay Seedhe Saadhe & Bandi Tot – Badhaai Do (Amit Trivedi & Ankit Tiwari) – Hindi: While it is surprising to see Amit Trivedi in a multi-composer album (along with Tanishk Bagchi, Khamosh Shah, and Ankit Tiwari), he easily gets the cream of the soundtrack with 2 of his songs getting 3 versions each! Atak Gaya is effortlessly Amit Trivedi! The Arijit version is very easy to like, but Amit’s own acoustic version is no pushover with its own sedate flavor that comes from the composer’s own sober style of singing. The 3rd version featuring Abhijeet Srivastava is a surprisingly good listen too, with a kind of innocence that the other 2 versions lack. Hum Thay Seedhe Saadhe is lovely, with its gorgeous melody laid on top of a beautifully meditative rhythm. Of the 3 versions, Shashaa Tirupati’s version is my favorite. While the title song (Tanishk Bagchi) or Gol Gappa (Amit Trivedi) didn’t work for me, Ankit’s Bandi Tot did! Simple and catchy, with excellent singing by Nikhita Gandhi.
Bae – Don (Anirudh) – Tamil: A strictly by-the-numbers melody from Anirudh that gets elevated by the background sounding better than the melody. Aditya R K’s singing sounds wonderfully fresh, while Vignesh Sivan’s lyrics offer a clever play over the word ‘Bae’ being used in Tamil with so many words that end with ‘be’ so naturally.
Telusa – Ranga Ranga Vaibhavanga (Devi Sri Prasad) – Telugu: Amidst the steady supply of conventional songs DSP produces, he manages to occasionally (a bit too consistently these days) produce the surprising zinger. This is one such song. His trademark bouncy rhythm is missing but he layers the song with a lovely strings backdrop that helps him mount Shankar Mahadevan’s stellar singing really well. It’s only in the 2nd interlude that the DSP template manages to seep in!
Bytwo Bytwo – Bytwo Love (B. Ajaneesh Loknath) – Kannada: I started playing the song without knowing the composer and as soon as the catchy background music started, and that guitar… I knew this was someone I like. And of course, it was Ajaneesh. But to be sure, this is far less interesting compared to his considerably better songs. I didn’t like the first song from the film (I Hate Love) and I see a pattern that is most probably the director’s music sense. But Bytwo also has Mano’s voice to draw me in (nostalgic and good), and the anupallavi actually gets better.
Yaava Swargadinda – One Cut Two Cut (Nakul Abhyankar) – Kannada: Nakul’s tune is bouncy and almost like an extended advertising jingle. Benny Dayal is perfect for the rock sound, and it was hilarious to hear the iconic ‘If you come today, it’s too early… If you come tomorrow, it’s too late’ being sung to a different tune 
Raahein – Shadow and Light (Indipop/Hindi): I have been previously effusive in praise for Shadow and Light’s (Pavithra Chari and Anindo Bose) music (besides their Hindi albums, and that delightful Tamil single, Yaarum Illai). Raahein does not disappoint at all! Pavithra’s singing is, as usual, terrific! The melody builds beautifully towards the vocal humming hook that marks the end of the mukhda.
Neray Neray Vas – Soch The Band x Butt Brothers (Coke Studio Season 14): Soch The Band’s (Adnan Dhool and Rabi Ahmed) 2014 hit gets a zingy recreation in the hands of Butt Brothers (Shamroz and Umair). The original’s relatively slower tempo has been amped up into a lively Punjabi sound and this adds more life to the song.
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