Music Review: Ennu Ninte Moideen (Malayalam)

Composer(s): Gopi Sundar, M. Jayachandran, Ramesh Narayan
Listen to the songs online here: YouTube (Satyam Jukebox)

Jayachandran's Kannondu Chollanu, with its pattering rain-drops and kanjira forming the backdrop, gets all the more mesmerising in Vijay Yesudas and Shreya Ghoshal's entrancing vocals. The plaintive Kaathirunnu too works well, once again in Ghoshal's heartfelt rendition. For the mellifluous folk piece Iruvanji Puzhapenne, Jayachandran himself goes behind the mic, and in Ee Mazhathan, composer Ramesh Narayan incorporates the rain leitmotif to stupendous effect, with singers K. J. Yesudas and Sujatha doing wonders with their singing. Narayan gets his daughter Madhushree to sing the bare-bones but fabulous Priyamullavane, while Sharadambaram's arrangements sport a retro, stage drama effect. Jayachandran and Ramesh Narayan conjure a melodious soundtrack with Ennu Ninte Moideen.

Update: Gopi Sundar, who is in charge of the film's background score, seems to have had a hand in Ennu Ninte Moideen's music as well. His lone composition Mukkathe Penne treads a minimalist mappila pattu route, almost reminding me of Anwar's Kizhakku Pookkum, but beautiful all the same.

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