Music review: Pokkiri
Chanced to listen to the soundtrack of Pokkiri (Tamil) yesterday. Have been listening to it ever since. A friend tells me that some / most of the songs are carbon copies of the original
Telugu soundtrack. Haven’t listened to them, so these tracks sound fresh to me. My thoughts on the album…
1. Dol Dol Thaan ( “Mirchi” Suchitra, Ranjith): Some kind of wild song, at least the lyrics are to that effect — “puli maanai vettai dhaan aadidume kaattil… maan puliyai vettai aadum idam kattil”. Suchi’s voice suits the tone of the song. This isn’t the kind we would classify peppy (as most songs of this type are), slow in fact, but the beats are excellent, and you’d find yourself foot-tapping instantly. The way the male voice blends in the “aayla aayla adi aariyamaala…” refrain is the highlight of the song.
2. Aadungada (Naveen): If this isn’t the introduction song for Vijay, then we should all surrender our Ph.Ds in Tamil movies. The song starts with the kind of beat we’ve grown accustomed to since Podhuvaaga En Manasu Thangam (Murattu Kaalai). The lyric has all the elements of an intro song for Vijay — some random advice about mothers, love, work ethic etc. Nothing new, good nevertheless.
3. Nee Mutham Ondru Koduththaal (Ranjith, “Mirchi” Suchitra): An inexpensive alternative to your next aerobics album. Probably the only melody in the whole album; at least, this is what you’d label a melody in a soundtrack that is for the best part anything but. The lyrics, I couldn’t understand much, but the lyricist seems to get into some infinite loop about Tamil every so often. The remixed version doesn’t sound much different either. But hey, doesn’t the song remind you of “mere sapno ki rani, kab aayagi tu?”
4. Maambazhamaam (Shankar Mahadevan, Ganga): So Mani Sharma had to give Shankar Mahadevan a song, and couldn’t find anything better… Okayish, if you like inane, pointless stuff, or if you’re a member of Vijay’s fanatics club, but otherwise a skip-me track.
5. En Chella Peru Apple ( “Mirchi” Suchitra, A.V. Ramanan): On listening to this song, a friend asked me if Mani Sharma composed music for the Madhavan-starrer Jay Jay. This song reminds you rather too easily of the “May Maasam” song (yeah, the one about Reema Sen’s electoral rights). I wish Mani had given A.V. Ramanan something better. This is probably the intro song for Asin… so in the movie hall, you might not want to miss it; otherwise, move on!
6. Vasantha Mullai (Rahul Nambiyar, Krishnamurthy): The pick of the album. Even as you read the name of track, you know it is a remix of the old favourite from Saarangadhara. But it isn’t a straight remix (if some such term exists). The song starts on some kind of “nakkal” music, which would make you chuckle about the way most old songs open. The beats are awesome, another foot-tapping number… it is hard to see how you might not like it. The nakkal extends to the lyrics as well — “kaadhal enbathu aandhaiyai pole, night muzhuvathum muzhikkum… kamban veettu naayai pole, kavidhayaa adhu koraikkum!” This is one for your Top 10 list!
7. Pokkiri - Theme: A let-down, considering that the track opens with a lot of promise, but then some unintelligible sounds and lyrics creep in, destroying the effect. Someone tell me why should a theme song have a 30-second refrain, “Soap maari… soap maari” or something like that.
Overall verdict: Very good, if not excellent; go for it; good work by Mani Sharma… you can expect the movie to have an extended run just for the soundtrack!
You can listen to all the songs online at MusicIndiaOnline > Pokkiri.
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“it is hard to see how you might not like it”
Very true. This song is an instant favorite. You’ve captured the sentiment very well. Overall, good review.
Nice review. Makes me wanna listen to the soundtrack.
Btw, cool template VK.
Being a big fan of the original Pokiri (Telugu), I was almost sure that its Tamil version will not impress me on the music front. But this actually is a good enough effort by Manisharma in providing a few fresh songs along with the remade Telugu ones. Good album overall.
).. Good write-up VK.
Btw, I was laughing like crazy at a couple of places in your review (Random advices in the Aadungada song ! and Reema’s electoral rights
The Telugu version of Dol Dol rocks big time with those Hindi lyrics.
Music review: Pokkiri…
Chanced to listen to the soundtrack of Pokkiri (Tamil) yesterday. Have been listening to it ever since. A friend tells me that some / most of the songs are carbon copies of the original Telugu soundtrack. Haven’t listened to them, so these tracks s…
Reema’s electoral rights… ROFLMAO
I too listened to all songs… nallave irukku (except vj’s intro song)… Suchi’s voice fits dol dol song v.well.
songs are superb.
3 of the songs are copies of telugu pokiri starring telugu superstar mahesh babu and ileana.
naan padam telungu la parthen.supera irundhudhu.
tamizhil kooda padam telugu madhire supera irukkum ennru edgurpaakare.
telugu la padam super a eduthirukanga. namma tamil la kood nalla edupangala?
telungula tamil vida nall technology ulladhu.
we expect the tamil version of pokkiri will create records.
here by vijay should remake good hits of mahesh babu.
It’s true the songs are all superbe.Dol Dol and the intro songs is amazing.
All songs in pokiri are super hit.Vijay dance are super.It’s vijay son Sanjay the little boy who dress up like vijay in Vasantha Mullai Songs?
all song in Pokiri is so savadi.
all songs in pokkiri are wonderful i am a fan of vijay i heard it 5or6 times so check i out!!!!!!!!!
i realy like your movie can u please put your film on TTN because i want to watch it
I LIKE THE SONG OF VASANTHA MULLAI SO MUCH………………………..
i began loving the songs without knowin wht movie they belonged too, then i realised teh star was VIJAY!!! i began to love th movie abstractly!! then AFter a three month wait (cos of my xams) i watched it AND I LOVE IT!!!
“En Chella peru” song reminds me of some English track… not able 2 get it… especially the “ooh aah” part… Can some body tell me which song it is.