Continuing with the critiques I started in 2015, here is the next in series - a movie review.
Prologue: Go here.

Stars: 3 / 5
Recommendation: Good for watching sitting on couch and don’t expect too many variations in notes.

Happy Holi! Yes, on Mar 24th this year, the festival of colors Holi was celebrated by Indians all over the world. So for this ( Read more... )

I cant believe the year has come to an end already. It gave me immense pleasure posting all the wonderful melodies that are my favorites too. It took a lot of searching and compiling before I could post any single song. Not to mention to keep track of already posted songs and movies so there would be no repition. (I might have had one or two ( Read more... )

The countdown to 2016 started. So did the closure to my song-a-day blog theme for 2015. Keeping with the mood, here is the second of the three songs that were going to be part of my closing posts.

From the 1982 hit Telugu film Manchu Pallaki ( = Snow Palanquin), this lovely melody was Sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S. Janaki. Interesting to ( Read more... )

The countdown to 2016 started. So did the closure to my song-a-day blog theme for 2015. Keeping with the mood, here is the first of the three songs that were going to be part of my closing posts.

This 1980s hit song titled Happy New Year by Swedish pop group ABBA is a perfect ballad to start with. Sung by Agnetha Faltskog for their album Super ( Read more... )

This beautiful classical number was from the 1963 hit Hindi film Dil Hi To Hai ( = It's Only My/Your Heart) Sung by legendry singer Manna Dey. It is said that when Music composer Roshan recorded this song in Manna Dey's voice, the film makers were not happy. They wanted it to be re-recorded with Mohd. Rafi's voice. However, Roshan had refused to ( Read more... )

Interesting pairing of Chandramohan and Vijaya Nirmala in this 1968 hit Telugu movie Bangaru Pichuka ( = Golden Sparrow). I remember this song vaguely and took a while to find it. But finally nailed it. It’s a sweet melody Sung by S. P. Balasubrahmaniam. Music was composed by K. V. Mahadevan and Lyrics penned by Arudra.

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My cousin visited me with her family for this Christmas weekend. I was very happy to see extended family in my new home. My nephew poor him got bored since I didn’t have any toys nor any kids to play with. So he entertained himself watching the Harry Potter movies playing on TV all weekend long, during the times we stayed in. Hopefully by the time ( Read more... )

What better song to sing than this famous carol for Christmas every time. Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving by American song writer James Lord Pierpont in 1857. It was titled as One Horse Open Sleigh. James composed the Music for the song too. Later on this song became more related to Christmas and is played all the time during ( Read more... )

When I posted the song from Rojulu Marayi a while ago, I had mentioned that Waheeda Rehman had acted only in one telugu movie. I stand corrected. Turns out that she acted in four movies although her hit song was from the Rojulu Marayi movie. I came across one of her other movies when I was searching for a song for my nephew's birthday. Incidentally ( Read more... )

This historical-based Hindi film released this month with considerable amount of hype. It is based on the story of Maratha warrior Peshwa Bajirao and his second wife, a muslim named Mastani. Although based on true history, the movie based its plot primarily from the Marathi novel Raau by Nagnath S. Inamdar. According to history, Peshwa Bajirao was ( Read more... )