Review of ARRahman's latest "Mr.Romeo" (fwd)
Dev Mannemela
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: 'Mr.Romeo' - The Soundtrack
Date: 29 Oct 1996 21:48:59 GMT
Organization: University of Ottawa
Summary: Review on the soundtrack 'Mr. Romeo' released last week, music directed my A.R.Rahman.
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Mr. Romeo - The Soundtrack
Hi all, I got to listen (and enjoy) to this soundtrack, it was released last
week, so I decided to do a review on it , here it goes:
Movie: 閃r. Romeo'
Music: A.R. Rahman
Lyrics: Vairamuthu and Vali
Direction: Ravi
Production: R.B.Southri 壮uper good films'
Soundtrack: Pyramid AV international PTE. Ltd.
Wow, A.R.Rahman is amazing, Mr.Romeo has a total of 6 songs, and 4 of them are
really unique. What amazes me are the new singers, where are these people
coming form? And how many more are there?
1) Romeo attam potal
Singers: Udit Narayanan, Hariharan
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
This is a fast song, totally about Prabudeva - how he started to dance
(by accident?), well Vairamuthu has some of his creative techniques embedded
in the song. This track will give you some inspiration but it sounds similar
to 壮hanthi' from Love Birds. Udit (Kulu valilay) is Ok, Hariharan is good. In
summary this is a good title song.
2) Yar adhu?
Singers: Anto, Chandran, Srivas, Noel James
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
This is new to Thamil music, A.R has integrated 遷ungle music' into
eastern music. I know for sure that Jungle music is famous is England, But I
am not sure where it came from?, anyhow A.R has done a very good job
integrating these two extreme music together. I did not like this song that
much because I am not a fan of Jungle music, I have difficulty finding the
beat pattern in Jungle music. I don't have too much to day about the lyrics
because it is short and repeating - just like a techno song.
3) Mel isaiyae
Singers: Unni Menen, Swarnalatha, Srinivas, Sujatha
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Excellent slow song!, the beat can be compared to a typical House
beat, I really like the humming, both main singers are great. I should say
something about the Tabla mixes, for those of who enjoyed the tabla mixes from
前ruvan Oruvan' - 閃uthu' yeah!, in this song there are great Tabla mixes,
and I can't believe the clarity of them, - great song, but at some points
the background beat (house beat) sounds boring.
4) Thaneerai Khadalikum
Singers: Sangeetha Sajith
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Are you ready for New Age?, well this is it!, this is Tamil new age
music!, Excellent Excellent mixes my A.R., the interludes are amazing. A.R has
done some voice flanging in this song, this man really knows the technology,
and unlike most of us he is using it! The lyrics are alright - a bit sexy at
some points. A very good song, it also has an R&B flavour.
5) Muthu Muthu Mazhai
Singers: Ila Arun
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
This is my favourite. This song is different, it is formed by mixing
Thamil's own 銭oothu music' and west Indian 舛hutney' music. I love this
song!, it makes me dance (even in the bus), wonderful dolak/tabla mixes.
Obviously there is a mistake in the names of the artists, because there is a
male voice and a female voice. But the female's name is missing. The female
voice is so unique - I have no Idea who it is and how she is signing - but she
has a different voice, actually it is not her voice it is the way she sings
the song - amazing, music mixes are so great, Keep it up A.R.
6) Monalisa
Singers: M.Vasudevan, Nagoor Mohammed ali
Lyrics: Vali
In a certain way, this song is different too but it is more like a
Bhangra song, and a baila song and it is also a ghazal. Well that's why I say
it is different! Even though the lyrics are not sad the tone of the song is
sad. A.R. has used Ghazal pieces as if someone if rapping at the background.
This song also reminds me of an old song it goes some what like 然athi pona
pinnalea'. Vali is talking in English now, he is into English poems, His next
assignment is in Hollywood. OK, I lied, but Why is Vali using all this English
terms? Except for that part this is an ok song.
The CD I bought was from PYRAMID, who are the original distributors for the
soundtrack. Listeners should never support Pirated CDs or Cassettes. Buying
Pirate musical sources will not give enough money and appreciation for the
artists to get a quality job done.
Also the Pyramid CD came with all the Lyrics and a lot of colour pictures.
That's my review....
Thanks,
Sam Coomaraswamy
Department of Computer Science
University of Ottawa
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