Smt. Anitha Presents
Sree Venkateswara Creations
Kottha Bangaaru Lokam (2008)
Producer: '
Dil' Raju
Director: Sreekanth Addala
Music Director: Mickey J. Meyer
Audio Rights: Aditya Music
Lyrics: Sreekanth Addala (1), Anantha Sriram (2, 3),
sirivennela Seetarama Sastry (4, 5, 6)
Playback: Krishna Chaitanya, Adhitya, Siddharth, Kranti & Sashi Kiran (1); Karthik (2); Krishna Chaitanya, Mickey J. Meyer & Chorus (3); Swetha Pandit (4); Naresh Iyer & Kalyani (5); S.P.B. (6)
Rating: 3.75/5
Summary:
Mickey J. Meyer comes up with yet another youth album after
Happy Days. Orchestration all through the albums is typical of him, and reminds his mark from his debut film
Pothe Poni... to the latest
Hare Ram. The tunes are mostly fresh, and more particularly, the lyrics are all very fresh.
1.
kaLaaSaalalO... (Duration: 3:57 minutes) (Rating: 4.0/5)
Playback: The playback fits the theme and maintains clarity of the lyric for most part.
Lyric: The film's director Sreekanth Addala comes up with surprisingly catchy words and expressions. The stanza that compares the subject of Physics to girls is particularly innovative. In fact, the very first word where the word
kaLaaSaala is broken into
kaLalu,
aaSalu prepares one to listen to the lyric carefully, and goes on talking about student pleasures such as "
kaLLaku vantena kaDutU unTE...".
Tune/Interlude/BGM: The tune catches up with repeated hearing. The youth-oriented beat fits the theme. The song is about students in the college, much similar to that from
Happy Days by the same music director, and thus this song reminds faintly of the previous work both thematically and musically.
2.
nijamgaa nEnEnaa, ilaa nee jatalO unnaa... (Duration: 5:21 minutes) (Rating: 3.5/5)
Playback: Karthik has an expressive modulation that goes perfectly with the song's theme.
Lyric: Anantha Sriram's lyric is catchy and good. The way the hero experiences his own love is told differently, "
edalO evarO chEri annii chEstunnaaraa? venakE venakE unTU neepai tOstunnaaraa?", he wonders!
Tune/Interlude/BGM: The song catches up instantly and stays on the mind long. The violin bit in the lead is impressive, and is possibly unknowingly set into the metre of certain lines of the not-so-famous
Sree Sreenivasa gadyam (
bahusankaTa narakaavaTa...).
3.
Confusion confusion, teenage-E confusion!... (Duration: 4:17 minutes) (Rating: 3.25/5)
Playback: Mickey J. Meyer has to take much care in his pronunciation. But for the totally wrong pronunciations like
maa
cha
llO for
maa
Ta
llO. Krishna Chaitanya is good.
Lyric: The lyric by Anantha Sriram has nice expressions and portrays the confusion and unsure quality of teenage life, in their choices, feelings, and life in general!
Tune/Interlude/BGM: The beat is good towards the end of the stanzas. Orchestration is different. The tune catches up instantly. The tune for the lines about cell phone and some more there remind of the thematically similar
College style-E...! (
Prema Desam).
4.
nEnani neevani vErugaa lEmani... (Duration: 5:12 minutes) (Rating: 3.5/5)
Playback: The playback is quite melodious. However, some more care should have been taken to avoid mispronunciations such as
ni
j
am,
pasitanaan
n
i,
nin
nE,
t
alistE (for
telistE),
etc.
Lyric: The lyric for the title song by the veteran offers good expressions such as "
reppa venakaala swapnam eppuDeduraindO satyam telistE..."
Tune/Interlude/BGM: The tune reminds of the number
I am in love... (
Sathyam) in parts, but is melodious nevertheless.
5.
Okay anEsaa, dEkhO naa bharOsaa!... (Duration: 4:35 minutes) (Rating: 2.75/5)
Playback: Kalyani is particularly melodious, and Naresh Iyer is soothing, and has better pronunciation than other Telugu songs rendered by him.
Lyric: Simple lyric with decent wordplay for a typical duet, where the heroine finds assurance and comfort in hero's presence.
Tune/Interlude/BGM: The song has simple tune and beat. Strings, particular violin, is impressive.
6.
nee praSnalu neevi, evvarO badulivvarugaa!... (Duration: 4:25 minutes) (Rating: 4.25/5)
Playback: The veteran S.P.B. sings this number with all the expressive tone he has. Budding singers should note the difference in the two different
cha-s and
ja-s in Telugu from his pronunciation in this song.
Lyric: Here comes a potential contender for prestigious awards for lyrics for the year 2008! If only one follows this song keenly and applies to one's life, one can observe a marked difference in one's approach towards life and other things! The veteran lyricist raises several questions, and hints that one should find one's own answers from one's own life. Each line is an absolute gem, and it'd be unjust to other lines if I have to write only a couple of them here!
Tune/Interlude/BGM: The music director should be appreciated for elevating the lyric with minimal orchestra. However, absence of lead music to the song makes it fall flat until the lyric can take up the pace.
By NaChaKi
