Anniyan Rocks! - The music review

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I have not heard all the songs yet. I cant move past Iyengar veetu azhagey. It starts out with one of the best keerthanais Jagadhanandhaka, recorded typical Thiruvaiyaru style, and then blends into a really romantic number in a Naatai/Gambeera naatai. Hariharan and Vairamuthu compete for the top honors. Vairamuthu is going to win tons of praise for these superb lyrics:

"un pol azhagi pirakkavum illai, inimel pirandhaal adhu nam pillai!"
"un pol chamathu ulaginil illai, kadhalan chamathu kaadhalil thollai!"

Hariharan is in top form, especially in the "kadhalin vaguppil maanavan dhaan pandidhane!" He fully leverages his ghazal expertise (yes, in a traditional carnatic song!). Harini is good too.

(Here is the link to MS's Jagadhanandhaka. http://www.musicindiaonline.com/l/1/m/artist.14/)

Sukumari.... Its ok... (and i say that with some effort). It should probably grow on you. Shankar Mahadevan is really good in this song, he gets the brahmin accent perfectly. I dont know how the tamizh makkal will accept this style of pronounciation in this day and age (even my grandmother doesnt speak with this accent!). There is some weird chorus before this song, and so we have one more addition to Harris Jeyaraj's dictionary of weird words! (omohoseeyaa is still number 1! even my one year old niece used to burst out laughing each time she heard this!)

Speaking of weird words, what does Rendaka mean? The song is pretty catchy though. Shreya Goshal reaches impossibly high notes and sounds fabulous. Maybe Harris could have just used the beat in the beginning of the song in all the places where he used the chorus?

As for the other songs, I half-heard them once and only caught a bunch of english words stuffed into the songs to make them sound "modern" for the "youth". Another song sounded like a big ad jingle for nokia (i do hope theres no product placement) with lyrics likening the guy to an america varaipadam (is that really hot!!???!)

Anyway, who cares? I'm listening to iyengar veetu for the 25th time!