Telugu Movie Oy!!! Music review

Oy ! (2009) Music Review

Cast :: Siddharth,Shamlee

Music :: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Director :: Anand Ranga

Producer :: Danayya DVV

1.Oy ! Oy ! - Siddharth - Four Stars

Oy !! was one of the most awaited music albums for this year till date.This was for two main reasons-one that yuvan shankar raja was going high after his straight hits in tamil like "Siva Manusula Sakthi" and "Sarvam" and other being hero siddharth being the music producer for this album.To start with and keeping their promise sidharth and yuvan start with a bang with this awesome title song.Sung and performed by siddharth who does well to sing this song.Credits to him for learning the telugu language and trying to sing songs by himself.There is a freshness in his voice and iam sure he would be singing more and more in the near future .The song is a nice fast song and it mainly lives on live drums which has been done really well by "V.Kumar" who has been yuvan's live drummer for many years now and i could says responsible for his latest hits too.The lyrics are just ok but since the tune is so catchy that each listener ends up humming the tune..some superb lines such as

Oy! Oy ! antu casual ga pilicherooo..... Oy !! Oy !! 20 sarlu kallo kalisero..Oy!! Oy!!.empty gunde ninda nilicheroo.....oooh ooh Oy!!!!

are very funny but yet make you feel attracted to the song.Credit to yuvan for his use of drums to make this song and a Hi-Fi to V Kumar for his fabolous drumming.

2.Saradaga - Karthik,Sunidhi Chauhan - Three stars

I just could not believe my eyes when i saw sunidhi's name joined with karthik in the credits of this song,i thought how could yuvan pull out this combination.This song is neat love number where the heroine asks the hero what he can do for her and the hero explaining what his love is !!! .Ananth sriram is one of my current favourite telugu lyricists for the way he gives importance to those neat telugu words and for his telugu essence is very good and i could say he has the talent to become one more "siri vennala seetaramasastry".He is just 24 and iam sure he is the lyricist to reckon for in our telugu film industry.The way he writes "meghalani mootakattukoni ningi majjalo parigedathaava" :) has a very good poetic feel to it.Karthik is as usual at his best and sunidhi i can say she has improved her telugu pronouciation by leaps and bounds.over all a good song with very meaningful lyrics and cool singing by the two professionals.

3.Waiting For you - KK - Four stars

The first impression somebody would get when they see KK's name in a song which has some eglish lyrics is that he would repeat the same magic he did it for "Feel my Love" in arya,but to every ones suprise this song has complete telugu lyrics with just " Iam Waiting for you baby" in eglish !!! I believe that KK is one of few singers in india who is gifted with an absolute voice to handle both low and high pitches,thats a rear talent and thats the reason he can sing any song with utmost ease.This song is no exception and KK does a great job to handle it well.Its basically a slow melodious piano number which talks about a person who is deeply hurt in love :) Vanamali does a good job in penning the lyrics for the song and i could say KK does a very good job in pronouncing each and every word in the song.Claps to yuvan/Sidharth for selecting KK to sing this song as i felt he could be the only singer who could have done full justice to this number.A very nice song and one of my favourites in the album.

4. Anukoledenadu -Shreya Goshal - Three starts

This song could be possibly an introduction song for the heroine for the most awaiting heroine of the year (Shamili/baby Shamili).This song describes a happy go lucky girl who just loves each and everything thats going around her.Vanamali again for you and he does a good job again.The way he uses the words "andarlo ee naadu silanai unna...nadi sandram lo ee naade alanainaana" is beautiful.Shreya goshal is another perfect example to show that language is not a barrier for a perfectly trained classical/carnatic singers and she just outplays this song with her usual ease and peppyness in her voice. She gets almost right in her pronouciation except for a line in the song where she says "nonnu" instead of "nannu" and thats something negligable for her singing and as usual she is an apt choice to sing this song and she rocks.Thanks to yuvan for this melody and to shreya as well.

5.Povodhe Prema - Yuvan Shankar Raja - Three stars

The first and the foremost impression which we get when we hear this song for the first time is the way it resembels the modern "Pritam" and "Shankar Ehsaan Loy" type songs in movies like "METRO" and "ROCK ON" respectively.After hearing it for many more times we eventually like it.Yuvan composes and sings this song and he strikes the right node in this song.Yuvans voice is more like his father Illayaraja who is popular for his slow melodies and yuvan follows the same path too.The song demands strong feelings of a badly hurt lover and yuvan does a good job in getting the feelings well in the song.I still felt that yuvan was not as clear as he could be at the high notes of the song like the below lines....

"Marujanme unna dante bramhanaina adigedi okate....."

The way yuvan used the interludes of piano and guitar is exellent in the song and Lyrics by vanamali are meaninful too,mainly the way he uses the line "Nuvvu Unte Nenu Unta ..Prema !!!" is really nice.A nice song and a perfect choice by yuvan to put himself on for singing this song.

6.Seheri - Toshi,priya -Four stars

I was so exited when i saw the credits for this song and that was because of two things,One that it was sung by one of my favourite singers "TOSHI" for the very first time in telugu and this song was written by my engineering batch mate "PV Krishna Chaitanya".Keeping these two things aside and thinking putting the critics hat on,i would say this song is the second best song in the album and i think thats the reason why the album producer (sidharth this time) placed this song strategically at the end of the Cassette/CD.Well this song is about the male and female talking about the different ways to live life :) Toshi was a runner up in the STAR VOICE OF INDIA which was conducted in 2008 and i could say he is one of the most talented singers in bollywood.This song is his first telugu song as a playback singer and he does a neat job.Though we can make out that this song is sung by a north indian,there are at times when Toshi pronounces somewords to utmost perfection that makes this song lovable when we hear for the first time.Yuvan uses a mix of piono and drumpads and music is really catchy.Lyrics are neat and simple in terms of telugu that was used and i hope PVK improves much more in the movies to come.On a whole a very nice song and good luck to TOSHI for his telugu music journey.

Oy !! is a good album and something different than the usual telugu albums.On the audio function siddharth mentioned that he being the producer of the album ,he wanted to repeat the magic created by his mentor "Mr.Mani Ratnam" and "Illayaraja" in all their movies .Though they are yet to do it,Oy stands as a stepping stone for them to reach that magical stage !!! Good music,refreshing tunes and good selection of singers for all the songs by yuvan .On a lighter vein,this is one such very common albums in telugu recently which doesnt have not even one telugu singer on its credits.Anyway,hope to see yuvan again in telugu trying out some fresh music with all telugu singers next time :)

This album is certainly a worth buy and my picks are Oy Title track,Waiting for you and seheri !!!

Telugu Movie "Current" Music Review

1.You are My Love - DSP

DSP all the way,he composes and he sings it by himself and guess what the english lyrics are also written by himself and i could say he sounds pretty much same as we have heard since "andamaina bhamalu" in manmadhudu.This song is a peppy love number which goes pretty fast.I really dont know why these days much of english words are included in telugu songs .Is it because people are liking english lyrics or are lyricists short of telugu words ? dont know. There is a good use of techno drums and impressive digital mixing done which makes this song neat and audible.The way Devi says "Baby you R my Love,baby ur My darling,my feeling,my reason to Live !!!"is impressive.On a whole Devi should seriously consider of changing something in the way he sings or try considering giving the songs to some other singer,A decent song.Three stars from me !!!

2.Rekkalu - Sagar,Ranina

An authentic DSP number and you can very well make it out in the starting of the song when the high string veena musical bit sets the mood .This song is very catchy and you will end up humming the song soon after you hear it for the first time.Lyrics are ok again and the lyricist -bhaskarabhatla does a decent job not writing more complicatedwords.Its nice to see sagar again in the back of the CD ,remember his soothing number in arya(Nuvvante)?.This time around DSP tried sagar in a fast number than the regular slow songs in which we heard sagar till date and he sings it with good pronounciation,ranina a budding tamil singer does an OK job.DSP's chorus adds some value to the song.Melodious number and very easy to hum around.Three stars from me

3.Ammayilu Abbayilu - Franco,Andrea

There are at times when DSP goes a step beyond and makes some songs which are completely out of the telugu mood,i think this song is a perfect example of that.Sung by a malayali singer Franco whom we heard last time around in "Ayyo Ayyo Dhannaya" in "READY"and where thought he was much more better in that song.The female voice is given by a tamil singer/actress Andrea Jeremiah, and both of them sound decent enough.This time around ramajogayya sastry does not give us decent lyrics and again this time occupied by english sentences than words.The tune which reminds us some of the recent hindi songs is not impressive too..An average song and a simple Two from my side.

4.Current -Benny,DSP

This song is the fourth track in the album and i can say the best in the lot.Sung by Benny Dayal and DSP and lyrics by ramajogayya sastry again.This song is well written and even though there are plenty words of ENGLISH words written by ranina and divya, i personally thought those words were needed for the mood of the song.The song starts with an impressive music of Electric wires making a buzzing sound and DSP asking us what "CURRENT" is?The rest of the song answers us what "CURRENT" means !!! an awesome thought for a movie TITLE song :)

DSP shows his brilliance of what he can do with various intruments,there are pieces of guitar intro,veena,drums and the way he says

"Zarrumantu Volluantha paake feeling ye ra CURRENT".

Benny Dayal came a long way after his entry as a chorus singer in SIVAJI, and now singing atleast one song for AR Rehman in all his movies.I think the so called "REHMAN" training is taking him to a new level.Being a malayali by birth,he sounds good in those tough and fast telugu words and he is very impressive at his diction and iam sure we are going to hear from him more and more in future.A complete four for this number.Way to go devi,we need more of this from you !!!

5.Atu Nuvve Itu Nuvve -Neha Bhasin

Remember the VIVA group which channel "V" bought up few years back?I think few of us remember the band as they split up because of some differences.This is one way good for us as it gave us five awesome individual singers and one of them is NEHA BHASIN.I just feel amazed with the way this lady pronounces other languages words.For a girl who is born and brought up in delhi,its way too tough to understand what tamil/telugu songs are.She does a fabolous job in this song and the way she brings those extra feelings in the song are worth commending.Lyrics are good and they are just beatiful..An authentic DSP number and on the face of it we can easily know that the music director is DSP.It reminds of the some of the great soothing songs which DSP has given us in the films like sontham,anandam,kalusukovalani and Khadgam.With this song again ending in the album,DSP makes a point that he can even rocks in scoring good melodious songs.An out and out five frome me..

Over all,a decent album with three good songs and two average songs.Good mucic by DSP and awesome blend of budding singers.On a serious note, a change is needed in the way lyrics are written these days for telugu movies and iam sure you will also agree with me.There is only song in this movie without any english lyrics and that song simply stands out in all the songs in the album.That shows the importance of what lyrics are and why we need more sirivennala seetarama sastry in our telugu movies.If you like modern music and if you dont mind the usage of english words/sentences in telugu songs i would surely recommend this album to you and my picks are atu nuvve itu nuvve and CURRENT title song.

See you soon with one more review from me.