InfoZone: 01/10/10

Lot of newcomers, fantabulous tunes – it’s worth defining Tamil music industry with simplistic terms. This year hadn’t got us any tamil album from A.R. Rahman, but there are few songs from other composers that mesmerized our souls with its melodic touch.

1. Vizhi Moodi Yosithal (Ayan)

Music: Harris Jayaraj

Vocal: Karthik

Lyrics: Vairamuthu

This has been the highly rated song in audio markets and FM stations. Indeed, the whistling tune of this song happens to be the most commonly used mobile ring tone.

2. Pichhai Paathiram (Naan Kadavul)

Music: Ilayaraja

Vocal: Madhu Balakrishnan.

Lyrics: Illayaraja

Many songs engross us and fade away gradually, but very few keep prolonging in our senses with its finest tune and heart-touching lyrics. Illayaraja proves again of his skill over penning philosophical song.

3. Hasili Fisili

Music: Harris Jayaraj

Vocal: Karthik

Lyrics: Pa. Vijay

The duo Harris-Karthik worked wonders for Surya’s other songs as well. It has been so illustrious with ‘Ava Enna’ from ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’ and ‘Vizhi Moodi’ from ‘Ayan’.

4. Oh Sexy Mama (Yaavarum Nalam)

Music: Shankar-Ehasan-Loy

Vocal: Jazzie Gift, Anuradha Sriram & Loy Mendonsa

Lyrics: Thamarai

An impulsive song with unusual singers crooning an uncommon song with catchy tunes and stunning choreography… Shankar Mahadevan could easily carry this song to everyone’s attention in both Tamil and Hindi version. It’s worth mentioning that the word ‘Sexy’ was replaced by ‘Crazy’ since the censor board officials insisted it.

5. Sambo Siva Sambo

Music: Sundar C Babu

Vocal: Shankar Mahadevan

The song turned on top of charts after the film’s release with accordance to powerful drama visualized over screens. This is a racy with three versions – Title song with signature music while couple of other songs appears towards pre-interval and climax.

6. Excuse Me Mr. Kanthaswamy

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Vocal: Vikram, Suchitra

Lyrics: Vivega

This song was meant to have more hype since it was the first promotional song screened prior to film’s shooting began. Another highlighting trait was about Vikram himself crooning this song and the dialogues in the interludes grabbed everyone’s attention. But the visuals weren’t so catchy.

7. Edho Seigirai (Vaamanan)

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Voice: Javed Ali, Sowmya Rao

Lyrics: Na. Muthukumar

With vivid airing across radio stations, the song turned to be a happening number in towns. But much alike the previous song, it didn’t sustain with the vitality due to mediocre visuals and choreography.

8. Anbale (Pasanga)

Music: James Vasanthan

Vocal: Bala Murali Krishna

Lyrics: Yugabharathy

Ace singer Bala Murali Krishna made his comeback nearly after 25 years to croon a film song. He rendered this song with an excellent rendition and the lyrics were so close to heart that centers on unity and harmony.

9. Siragugal (Sarvam)

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Vocal: Madhushree, Javed Ali

Lyrics: Pa. Vijay

‘Siragugal’ belongs to Javed Ali and Madhushree as carry the entire song on their shoulders. Yuvan has tuned the song with a mild accompaniment of instrumentals and lyrical lines by Pa. Vijay were appealing.

10. Vizhighalile (Renigunta)

Music: Ganesh Raghavendran

Vocal: Bombay Jayashree

Lyrics: Yugabharathy

The tunes sound similar to Harris’ musical score for ‘Anal Mele’ in ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’. But sources reveal that Panneer Selvam himself had requested the debutant to tune it in same pattern. But the meaning conveyed with this song was completely different from the prior. Kudos to Yugabharathy for poignant lyrics…