Himesh Reshamiyya has performed the music score for a tamil movie for the first time. He is lucky that he is doing the score for a Kamal Hassan movie with a budget in excess of 35 crores.This is a typical Himesh album with high pitch vocals ,heavy bass and Keyboard generated sounds.
Ulaga Nayagan (Vinith)
A song patronizing the hero is sung by a new bee Vinith. Honestly I don’t know what to make of this song. It was neither good or bad but it did not leave a bad taste. The energy level for this kind of song is certainly missing.
Kalai Mattum (Hariharan)
Hariharan sings this song with his usual relish. The instrumentation suggests that this could be a song from the medieval period. The emphasis is more on the lyrics than the song itself even though I could not decipher the lyrics no matter how hard I tried . From whatever I understood this song could be opposing blind faith in God. The Arabic mix with the violin is interesting. This is possibly the best song of the album.
Oh Sanam (Kamal Hassan and Mahalakshmi Iyer)
This is a peppy song sung by Kamal himself. This is the only song I could hum after listening to the full album. Mahalakshmi supports him with her vocals and does a good job at it . The rhythm is decent and this is a typical Himesh song with the high pitch and heavy bass.
Mukunda Mukunda (Sadhana Sargam , Kamal Hassan)
This is a devotional song. It is very pleasing to the ear and definitely not bad but again it is not mind blowing either.I would have rated this song as best in the album but I was searching for the next button in my remote towards the end when I was forced to hear a hideous voice. I can understand if this is a situational song but why on earth should I listen to such a horrible voice all of a sudden when I am listening to the awesome Sadhana Saragam ?
Kaa (Shalini Singh)
This song sounds like a disco song from the 80’s. It is fast paced and Shalini has done a decent job. I am assuming that this is a song for Mallika Sherawat. This song has a very nice pace and rhythm to it . I could not understand the lyrics for the most part but the song is at least peppy.
Oh Sanam (Himesh and Mahalakshmi Iyer)
This is a remix version of the song with the same title sung by Kamal Hassan. I will leave it with the fact that this is a remix and Himesh can pronounce tamil words better than Udit Narayan.
I am lost as to why Kamal did not go with the very talented music directors in the south. Rehman and Harris must have been busy but I think even the new music directors G.V Prakash or Joshua Sridhar would have done a better job than Himesh. I was not thrilled even with one of the songs even though I would not call any of them bad . Even in ‘Hey Ram’ there was one song which was mesmerizing even though the rest of the album was a damp squib. The expectation from a kamal Hassan movie is very high and the budget of this movie requires a terrific music score but the compositions of Himesh are way short of the high expectation. Maybe he recorded the songs when he was busy creating music for 10 movies in a day.
One of the issues could be that the the music was created two years ago but the bigger issue is it sounds like it is 10 years old.
I am just going to wait for the movie now.
