OY! Soundtrack Review
After quite some time i am listening to the tunes of Yuvan Shankar Raja.The first thing i see when i buy a music CD is the back cover to have a look at the names of singers and lyricists.The first track is sung by Siddharth and it was not a surprise to me and i am very much sure that we will see it a lot more of this in the future,weather we like it or not is an secondary issue.
Oy! Oy! :This song is written by Chandrabose and sung by Siddharth.This song gives a good instigation to the album but it is devoid of a good singer.The song could have been much better if it was sung by a professional singer rather than by Siddharth.The lyrics of this song is a disappointment as it shows the mediocre side of Chandrabose,he uses many of the catchy English words which didn’t impress me.The pace and beat of Oy! Oy! does give you some energy to listen for the next song.
..beach house lo prema devatha,
yellow chudi daar white chunni to doche naa yada..
Oy! Oy! antoo casual ga pilichero,
Oy! Oy! twenty saarlu kalalo kalisero,
Oy! Oy! Empty gunde ninda nilichero.
Oy! Oy!..Oye.Oye…..
Love at First Sight….
Naalo kalige Love at First Sight…
Saradaga :Saradaga track is sung by Karthik and Sunidhi Chauhan.This song is written by ‘Anantha Sriram’ who gives decent words.The composition by Yuvan Shankar Raja is good and shockingly Sunidhi Chauhan’s telugu has improved,she succesfully traslates the tune and her voice so elegantly that we can forget her previous telugu songs.The only thing which i cant digest is bringing Karthik and Sunidhi Chauhan together for a duet.
Waiting For You : Don’t get mislead by the title of the song,it does not contain English lyrics except ‘Waiting for you’ with good lyrics by Vanamaali.We can hear the real K.K in this song.
Anukoledenadu : Shreya Ghoshal is allowed to sing the type of song which she deserves,this solo song which is predominantly a vocal based is totally engineered by voice of Shreya Ghoshal.Vanamaali does not impress me as he writes the same old stereo-type lyrics to this song.
Povodhe Prema: After multiple hearings of ‘Povodhe Prema’ i get the feeling that Yuvan Shankar Raja composed this song for himself.The song is perfect for his voice,during the initial stage of the song he uses the piano and the guitar in the background but later he the guitar and the drums to elevate the pitch of the song.Vanamaali’s beautiful lyrics are like these…
Nannu Vadili Needa Vellipotunda…
Kannu Vadili Choopu Vellipotunda..
Vekuvane Sandhya valipotunde..
Chikatilo Udayam undi Poyinde..
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Nuvvunte Nenunta Prema..
Povadhe Povadhe Prema..
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Seheri: This is the last track of ‘Oy!’ sung by Toshi and Priya.I guess this song is deliberately placed in the end of the album as to lift our spirits.If i am not wrong the lyrics are provided by Surendra Krishna and Krishna Chaitanya which contain some amount of rap in it.
Tags: Anantha Sriram, chandrabose, karthik, Music, Oy!, Shreya Ghoshal, Siddharth, sunidhi chauhan, Vanamaali, Yuvan Shankar RajaThe CD of ‘Oy!’ is worth its money but don’t expect much.Though ‘Oy!’ does not come any near to Yuvan Shankar Raja’s best works but definitely a good one and i am sure that you will not be disappointed after buying the CD.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Krishna- haven’t heard the soundtrack yet, will be doing the same soon.But one thing which I guess you have overlooked is that Siddharth is not making his singing debut with Oye.In fact he has been singing for his last few movies like Aata,Bommarillu,Chukkalo Chandrudu.He even sang for a Tamil movie- Santosh Subramaniam which is a remake of his telugu movie- Bommarillu.
Siddharth even sang in ‘Konchan Istham Konchma Kastham’,i tried to say that he will be singing in almost every film of his.
Hmm got it.Siddharth is following in the footsteps of Simbu & Vijay in tamil as actors who also sing.While all 3 of them- Siddharth,Vijay &Simbu are not great singers- they can certainly carry off certain songs quite well.So hopefully the music directors will only use Siddharth in the right way.BTW I dont think he has sung in Koncham Ishtam Koncham Kashtam.
I cannot agree on the point that siddarth is not a right choice for singing title song, i think the way he sings makes song peppy and funky. The singer also requires some command on language for singing this type of song which siddardh has.
@Sethu
He did sing in ‘KIKK’…’Evare Evare Subramanyam’
@Krishna,
’Evare Evare Subramanyam’ is sung by Shankar Mahadevan and not Siddarth. AFAIK, Sethu is right. Siddarth did not sing in KIKK.
@Mindtentative,@sethu
its not KIKK
@krishna..could you correct some of the glaring spelling mistakes here, puts some readers off what can be a “decent” post!
What do you mean you cant digest Karthik and Sunidhi Chauhan being brought together? Dont understand. Karthik is a fine singer, the best of his generation, dare I say, in TFM , if not India.
@plum
Karthik is one my favorite singer,but i dont like the combination of Karthink and Sunidhi Chauhan
Have you heard the songs from Gopi, Gopika, Godavari?
oy somgs r rocking…..hats off to yuvan shankar raja
Songs are really good – new type of music ever i heard in Telugu – hates off Siddhartha
i guess it would be great film