Pachaikili Muthucharam audio review.


Music: Harris Jayaraj


First listen - Ella paatum kaetta madri keedhu.. not a very good album, I say.
Second listen - Still.. engayo kaetta madri keedhu, paravailla.
Third listen - Mmmm, idhu nalla irukke.. an album that makes me work towards liking it.
Fourth.. - HJ back in form and how!

1. Unakkul Naan - Bombay Jayashree
Definitely not a nursery rhyme melody like "Paartha mudhal naale or Suttum vizhi sudare" for you to like it instantly. Sounds eerie at first but trust me, it gets way better with repeated listens. Bombay Jayashree's trademark brillance combined with HJ's lilting music and Thamarai's lyrics hit the song out of the ball park.

2. Unn Siripinil - Gauthami Rao, Robby
Ahh.. Just the song you were probably expecting out of the HJ stable. Nursery rhyme melody galore but slow and sexy nevertheless. I was just thinking.. this track would attain a whole new level if Shreya Goshal were to pep it up with some sighs and groans, but I digress. This is a good song.

3. Kadhal Konjam - Naresh Iyer
A "I'm so happy to be in love" song. Naresh Iyer is the man. Hummable and original tune but instruments remind you of New York Nagaram though. Harris needs to hook up with soundsamplesrahmanhasntusedyet.com pronto.

4. Unakkul Naan - Madhusree
Sadhna Sargam soundalike Madhusree recreates the magic of the first track in her own special way. I'd skip this one the first time around.

5. Karu Karu - Karthik, Naresh Iyer, Krish
This song rocks. Seriously, its like one of those power ballads with almost feminine crooning in between.

Verdict: Harris evolves. This is grown up music. Surely not epic but this set of sweet sounding clean film songs that provide a peek into Harris' musical genius will not disappoint - Definitely a must buy, if you're influenced by guys who express their opinion in pyjamas, sitting at messy desks with potato chips and beer.








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A Scanner Darkly(2006).

A Scanner Darkly is not just another drug movie. Its more subtle than say, Requiem for a Dream. However, the characters and imagery are a drug trip in itself.


The film is animated by a revolutionary technique using a software called Rotoshop which I guess, basically allows GFX artists to sketch, paint and trace over video to make Winona Ryder look like this.


Post Production work took care of most of the sets, props and costumes. The actors didn't even need makeup. Cool eh? More films should be made this way, right? But Rotoshop is proprietary software thats not commercially available and the owners don't plan to give it away anytime soon.


This experimental movie is set in a future where drug addicts are hooked on to a deadly substance and undercover agents spy and infiltrate gangs but no sir, this is no matrix or anything you'd normally associate with scifi movies. Its not an edge of the seat thriller - on the contrary it's slow and most scenes contain little or no action at all. The movie works as a dark drug abuse drama with occasional doses of hilarious dialogue from Robert Downey Jr. Definitely on the "must buy the DVD" list.


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