Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly, new music playlist. Week 251: YouTube | Spotify Back after another week’s break. Incidentally, Milliblog would complete 19 years in existence on July 22nd! That’s a lot more life than what I had anticipated for a blog I started casually in 2005 O Re Dariya – Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper (Ram Sampath) – Hindi: Dreamy, 80s Western ballad-style sound by Ram, aptly aided by Sona Mohapatra’s singing. The overall soundtrack is disappointing, but this one song stood out! Thenkizhakku – Vaazhai (Santhosh Narayanan) – Tamil: Beautiful melody from ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly, new music playlist. Week 250: YouTube | Spotify Kisi Roz – Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha (M.M. Kreem) – Hindi: Whoa, this is a stupendous shocker from Keeravani! To produce a song like this in the age of pulsating Punjabi pop becoming default Bollywood takes courage! The melody is incredibly lush, mildly reminiscent of Kalyanji Anandji’s Saraswatichandra classic ‘Chanda Sa Badan‘. But Keeravani gives the backgrounds a delightfully modern spin. The ace up his sleeve is the choice of singer. Maithili Thakur completely owns the singing. I would ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly, new music playlist. Week 249: YouTube | Spotify These days I’m just glad that there are two Weeklies in two weeks, back-to-back Tuu – Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha (M.M.Kreem) – Hindi: I don’t know if its the music or the setting (Holi, and Krishna Janmashtami), I was reminded of Atrangi Re’s Tere Rang when I heard the song for the first time. But both songs are completely different, including this being the male point of view, while Tere Rang had the female perspective too. But I really liked how the composer brought forth two different per ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly, new music playlist. Week 248: YouTube | Spotify Back after yet another week’s break, though the break was more because of the lack of decent new music This week’s quite good, though! Ittefaq – OAFF & Savera (Hindi/Indipop): OAFF (Kabeer Kathpalia) & Savera (Mehta)’s music works only occasionally for me – a hit or miss. This one is a hit I was more surprised by Siddhant Chaturvedi’s role in the song – he not only writes the song but also sings and dances to the music video (a single-shot video, if I got it right, which requires ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly, new music playlist. Week 247: YouTube | Spotify Back, after a month, considering the last Weeklies was on April 28, 2024! A lot of travel (Dubai, Coimbatore) necessitated this break. Thanks to the long break, the number of songs in this Monthlies-turned-Weeklies is 26! Excellent music to listen to, at that! Satyanaas – Chandu Champion (Pritam) – Hindi: Pritam seems to have regurgitated his own Gandi Baat and Galti Se Mistake into a heady new concoction In the voices of Arijit Singh, Nakash Aziz, and Dev Negi, it all works swimmingly wel ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 246: YouTube | Spotify Jimikky’s Ghazal – Star (Yuvan Shankar Raja) – Tamil/Hindi: Barring the fact that Sony Music/Yuvan choose not to credit Mehdi Hassan for the tune of ‘Mohabbat Karne Wale’ (though they have credited Hafeez Hoshiarpuri for the original ghazal verse), this is an outstanding song! Yuvan uses the original ghazal as the base to eventually build his Tamil ghazal written by Niranjan Bharathi. His music is very un-Ghazal’ish, and the modern touch elevates the original’s sweet melody (in Tilang raaga ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 245: YouTube | Spotify A bumper 20 songs this week, given last week’s no show. All the songs are available on both playlists. Ta Ra Ta Ra Ta – Do Aur Do Pyaar (Subhajit Mukherjee) – Hindi: I have already listed 2 songs from this film’s soundtrack in earlier Weeklies (The Local Train’s Tu Hai Kahaan and Lost Stories’ Jazbaati Hai Dil), but I did expect more from the 7-song soundtrack. The only other song I liked was Subhajit’s Ta Ra Ta Ra Ta, with its gently lilting melody and Vishal Dadlani sounding totally unlike ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 244: YouTube | Spotify 15 songs this week. Two songs from the Telugu soundtrack, Om Bheem Bush are inside a YouTube jukebox and are available as singles only via YouTube Music/Premium. So, they are not part of the YouTube playlist but are present in the Spotify playlist. Ranga Ranga – Maidaan (A R Rahman) – Hindi/Telugu: Rahman seems to be having a really good time with this film’s soundtrack! After the first 2 songs, this one stands out too, with its vibrant, pulsating tune that Vaishali Samant handles brilliantl ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 242: YouTube | Spotify Back after another musical weak week’s break 14 songs this week, and the Spotify playlist is missing only one song – the Kannada song from UI The Movie. It’s a surprise that Lahari Music hasn’t yet listed the song on Spotify! Baby Bring It On – Madgaon Express (Ajay-Atul) – Hindi: Ajay-Atul recreate their own 2016 Marathi number by the same name from the film ‘Jaundya Na Balasaheb’, but after hearing the superior Marathi original, the Hindi version sounds a bit less interesting. It is appro ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 241: YouTube | Spotify Back after a week’s break and what a bumper playlist it is, this weekend! 17 songs, and all songs are available on both playlists. Ishq Mitaye – Amar Singh Chamkila (A R Rahman) – Punjabi/Hindi: There’s an almost obvious nod to Rockstar’s Sheher Mein (also the Mohit Chauhan connection) in this song. And I am amazed at the fact that neither does Imtiaz Ali get his hero-composer (Diljit Dosanjh) to compose for the film, nor A R Rahman get the film’s hero-singer to sing for this song! But this ..read more