Music Review: Velipadinte Pusthakam (Malayalam)

Composer(s): Shaan Rahman
Listen to the songs online here: YouTube (Satyam Videos)

Lively traditional instruments and kanjira undergird Eantammede Jimikki Kammal, a catchy number sung with verve by Vineeth Sreenivasan and Renjith Unni. In Mele Arimulla, Shaan brings the ever-dependable Madhu Balakrishnan to do the singing honours, who aces the pleasant folky Vidyasagar'esque melody, even as the singer joins hands with Vrinda Shameek to elevate an otherwise predictable Neeyum. Manpaathakale too suffers from a repetitive sound that we have come to associate with the composer (not that it's bad), but in Karayum Kadalum, he has a clear winner, infusing the melody with A. R. Rahman's early 90's rustic charm that M. G. Sreekumar delivers well on the vocal front. Velipadinte Pusthakam is good stuff from Shaan Rahman, although I couldn't help wondering how Vidyasagar would have done it.

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