Music Review: Chennai 2 Singapore (Tamil)

Composer(s): M. Ghibran
Listen to the songs online here: Saavn

Vaadi Vaadi has a breezy soft-rock vibe, accentuated further by the use of guitars and lively instrumentation, while singers RJ Balaji and Abhishek Raaja wow with their super-frenetic vocal delivery in the Tamil folk-rap fusion Poda. Pogadhe's plaintive melody is marred to some extent by Raja Chelliah's stilted rendition, but Suthasini makes up for it in the song's folky female version. Narrow Smith practically screams over crazy jacked up guitar-riffs in Texas Pogiraen, and Gun Inbam, a wacky mix of rock, jazz, and kuthu sung effortlessly by Sharanya Gopinath, stylishly turns Kuttanad boat race song refrain thi thi thara thi thi thai on its head. Ro Ro Roshini is perhaps the most Ghibran'esque track, carrying the composer's trademark sounds that bring to mind Vathikuchi's Kuru Kuru. Chennai 2 Singapore sees Ghibran at his imaginative best.

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