Music Review of Yogi

Album: Yogi (Tamil)

Direction: Subramaniam Siva

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Lyrics: Snehan

Cast: Ameer, Madhumita & Nandha Periasamy

Production: Ameer

     1. Yogi Yogi Thaan – II

Singer: Blaze, Neha Bhasin

Very much the treaded path, though the female vocals gels very well with the song. Singer Blaaze raps to glory, as usual. The use of electric guitar was cool; especially the tapping and the groove very stereotyped ones. The rhythm is pretty much the beaten track, and on the whole, nothing out of the way. The song explains about the character Yogi (Ameer), with Police siren and lyrics like Netrikan Thirapinum Kutrangal seibavan than… looks like Ameer would have played an Anti-Hero role.

2. Yaarodu Yaaro

Singer: Yuvan Shankar Raja, Ustad Sultan Khan

An unusual romantic number with a feel of what if a tough hearted guy falls in love. The song starts off engaging but then looses the freshness as it moves into the pallavi, may be we got used to Yuvan’s singing for this type of numbers. The saarangi interludes are very impressive with female chorus overlapping it (good attempt) and leave one asking for more. Need to mention the good use of Bass.  The aalap by Ustad Sultan Khan lends a good feel and elevates the song to a higher level.

3. Yogi Theme in Saarangi

Singer: Ustad Sultan Khan

One would expect something like 7G Rainbow Colony immediately seeing theme Music – Yuvan but I was bit disappointed after listening since the song  is just a remix of Yogi Yogi Than – II. Re-mixed with heavy metal and Blaaze again does his bit to perfection. It is apparent that Yuvan has tried to do all possible things to cover it up and give a new flavor to the song. Run of a mill number. By the way, why the mention of Saarangi here? Did title of the songs mentioned correctly? I listened online may be need to check in audio CD as well.

4. Seermevum Koovathiley

Singer: Ameer, Naveen, Snehan and Jijuba

It starts off as what could have been a very new and interesting melange of wonderful percussion and a fresh 'gaana' but turns out to be a confused mix of familiar tunes, mostly borrowed out of the old kitty of devotional songs. Yuvan has tried to get the best of the tabela, the molam, even the mridangam and the thaara thappatam. The voice over looks artificial and perhaps with some good characterization the song might be watchable on the screen.  May be Yuvan and Ameer wanted to repeat the similar style hit number ( Oororam Puliyamaram) in Paruthiveeran. Noted Lyricist Snehan has tried out his voice in this number apart from playing an important role in the movie.

5. Yogi Theme Music (Instruments)

This time Yuvan is back with his traditional Theme music. Mix of Thavil and Saarangi is a good attempt with some mellifluous sound of flute. A cocktail made out of his bottle of old wine. 

6. Yogi Yogi Than - I 

The Saarangi is soothing; you get to hear Ustad Sultan Khan’s voice in a Tamil movie after Alaipaiyuthey. Rhythm in second half of the song gets bit harsh. Good use of Mild female vocal at the end of the song but did not last long.  I trust will gel with the feel of the film, one can only hope it does.

Whenever Yuvan wants to experiment, he would try with offbeat instruments starting from Nandha, Pudupetai, etc.  But just merely getting traditional instruments like saarangi, mridangam sync up with the thaara thappatam, molam with a shade of techno sound, one cannot hope to produce quality music.

Over all a decent attempt!

Expecting more from him the next time!

What's your Rashee?

After the Success of Jodhaa Akbar, Ashutosh Gowariker is back with his next Hindi movie "What's Your Rashee?" but this time it's a romantic comedy. The film is said to be based on US based Gujarati writer Madhu Rye's novel Kimball Ravenswood. Film's sound tracks are out and a new comer Shoail Sen had scored the music. Ashutosh and AR Rahman had created wonders together in their earlier movies but Rahman's absence seems to be mystery, probably Ashutosh could not catch hold ARR who is very busy composing Hollywood movies. The highlight of the movie is Priyanka Chopra, she plays for the first time in world cinema 12 different roles in the same movie.

Ashutosh claimed that he loved to attempt this type of Genre in which his favourite are "Roman Holiday" and "When Harry Met Sally".

Plot of the movie goes like this, Yogesh Patel (Harman Baweja), a young man who has always wished for a love marriage, is told that he must find his dream girl within ten days to save his family from utter ruin. He makes a plan; he will meet one girl from each raashee – Sun sign, so that he will get twelve chances to fall in love. Two meetings per day gives him six days to meet them, three days to make a final decision and he can get married on the tenth day.

Let’s wait and watch.