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Home > Audio Reviews > Asthram SA Rajkumar Doesn't Disappoint This Time APK | June 16, 2006 Rating: ***1/2 (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad)  Supreme Movies' debut production was bound to have good music. Asthram's music is not the best they could have come up with-but it is a good effort. The compositions are good, the singers are well-chosen and the tunes are hummable.Asthram When this song starts, you wonder if this is a Telugu album you are listening to-it sounds like it is straight out of an English orchestra. When Vishwa, Anchal and SA Rajkumar begin to lend their voices to Vishwa's incomprehensible lyrics, that feeling still doesn't leave you. It is essentially a techno song with a catchy tune which sets your feet tapping, with the ever-present English lyrics. ***1/2 Muddu Muddu This is another fast paced song-a song about a kiss. It is the kind of number the masses watch out for. The favorite mass/item song jodi is back again, ladies and gentlemen-Anuradha Sriram and Tippu. From Bangaram to Astram to Ashok, they are never absent. The mass song regulars, they've now become experts with this genre and add energy to the song. ***1/2 Padahare This is a 'murja' in Telugu. It is put together nicely, and Shreya Ghoshal's superior vocals have been used which elevates this otherwise okay number to a higher level. *** Sakhiya This duet between Karunya and Shivani is another fast-paced number that speaks of longing and love and everything else that's mushy and doesn't avoid English lyrics here and there. Nothing against it, but, isn't it getting repetitive? Overall, it's a good song and probably the best in the album. Hariharan renders another version of the same song with Shivani, and he does it in his inimitable style. One cannot compare the novice with the veteran as it would be unfair, but Karunya can stand up and take a bow-no one can compare and say who is better. Both the versions and both the singers make the song a good hear. ***.75  Undipo Nestama The tune is 'borrowed' from a recent Hindi song. Traces of all of SAR's previous compositions can be heard in this mediocre song. It might even be called 'melodious', only if you've totally lost touch with Telugu and Hindi music. This is one of those songs you feel you've been exposed to too many times before; sounds like the typical romantic number of the 90s. **Raa Chilaka This is the real item song of the album. (Yawn) Shankar Mahadevan wasted for a song full of not-so-decent lyrics, and not a real good or fresh new beat either. Fast-forward this song. ** Prema Kanna Yemundi Good question. The song is not bad, either. It starts off with some classical renderings, and the actual song begins-rhythmic (lyrics by Veturi) and soft; and one nice guitar note after each phrase gives the song an edge. *** After all the recent Hindi movies from Kaante to Musafir, it is now the turn of Telugu movie makers to add 'Karaoke' mixes in their movie albums. The music without the vocals-interested in singing in tune with the music, anyone? And the verdict is.. This is a surprise coming from SA Rajkumar who usually insists on giving softer beats, more conservative tunes and copies his own music over and over again. That way, this is his freshest album-not his best, but in terms of the sound, it is fresh and something we don't expect from SAR. The music has been composed keeping the young actors of the movie (Vishnu and Anushka) in mind, and the young audiences who are the targets. The title track-Asthram, Muddu Muddu and Padahare are good numbers and Sakhiya is the best number of this album, and one that stays with you long after you've switched the CD off. |