As Gautham Menon gears up to launch the audio collaboration with Ilayaraja, it is time to revisit one of his best collaborations with Harris Jayaraj. Harris seems to have got new listeners with this album since this seems to slightly get out of his "heard before" songs. Adiye kolluthey was leaked on the net and is the peppiest song of the album, and Sruthi Hassan's first one in Tamil. Turn it on full blast while speeding on the ECR or on the Chennai B'lore NH4! Nenjukkul peithidum has mesmerising lyrics though it brings u memories of Harris' own Mudhal Naal Indru from Unnale Unnale. This is one perfect example of how to reuse your own song. Harris tries to do something new by exluding Bombay Jayashree, a regular feature of his and Gautham Menon's previous ventures by using Sudha Raghunathan in Anal Mele Panithuli, but the carnatic singing genius sounds strangely like Jayashree herself , making the whole purpose of not using Jayashree puzzling! Mundhinam Parthene is perfect rock. Naresh Iyer is growing by leaps and bounds and seems to get the best ones too. There are 3 other nos., one a smaller "trying to be different" version of Nenjukkul Peithidum but the first mentioned 4 carry the day.
The perfect "bubblegum pop" - urban, youthful, - it can't get better than this! Harris, take a bow, man!
The perfect "bubblegum pop" - urban, youthful, - it can't get better than this! Harris, take a bow, man!
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