BT Rating: (2/5)

Arjun Studiol Half an Hour!

Nam Areal Ondina Music(Audio) Review by Raju Shanbhag

Music director Arjun has found a new way to be hip and cool; he will just put a couple of extra drums in the recording! Although you feel that the songs are suitable to the promos and stills of the film, a little more melody wouldn’t have hurt anyone. Barring a couple of songs, all the songs lack melody and you will take some time to get adjusted to the lackluster tunes. May be the framing of songs holds a key? Let’s wait and watch (not listen!)

Nam Areal Ondina: Arjun starts off with a short bit about the title of the film. The bit opens with the dialogues, which has become almost customary post Buddhivanta. The tune resembles Rahman’s Pathshala from Rang De Basanti. Good education derived by Arjun from Pathshala!

Kanyamani: Ramadevi, Vijay and Divya try their best to sound like engineered voices emanating from a computer. A desperate search in the maze of Arjun’s techno beats for melody make you return empty handed. Arvind Kaushik’s lyrics are appropriately funny.

Manmathana: A neat song rendered sensuously by Priya Prakash. But Arjun massacres his own tune by banging the drums as if he got couple of them free on Christmas offer. Even Arvind Kaushik’s lyric is the victim of this drum mayhem. But try separating Priya Prakash’s voice from the merciless drum beats, and you’ll know that she has cool voice.

Nenape: This Karthik is an amazing singer for two reasons. First, he renders this song soulfully and makes you a part of the melancholy brigade. Second, he makes himself heard even when Arjun is on drum beating frenzy! If there were no drums in this song, (at least not as much), this could have been relaxing song. But I guess you can ask for only so much.

Rumda Rumda: Another bit which gets over before you are trying to figure out whether to like it or not.

Jamaise: Arjun finally gets his drums talk and talk in a foot tapping way. This song has most of the things going for it. An interesting tune, good singers in Ranjith and Chaitra, and the lyrics by Arvind Kaushik and Manjunath Bagade make you like what you listen to. But it might take a couple of hearings for you to do so.

Kaapadiko: Karthik returns with another melancholy dripping song along with Shamita Malnad. The lyricist duo of Arvind Kaushik and Manjunath Bagade churn out another song that is completely ordinary.

Talenovu: The first thing that strikes you about this song is Arvind Kaushik’s funnily insightful lyrics about love. Listen to the rowdism funda about girls; really hilarious. The other things about the song are just about ok.