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It has eleven tracks in total the rest of the soundtrack keeps up a good mix: “Ratti Ratti Reza Reza”, a likeable, if somewhat generic, romantic song, followed by “Down And Dirty”, an out and out reggae number and instrumental pieces that constitute motifs and themes as part of the background score. (Shekhar’s lyrics are appropriately nursery rhyme like).Īlbums take time for you to wrap your head around them and Meenakshi Sundareshwar is a proper album. This is a ‘wacky’ song but it bares its soul when it’s pure folk: the part where Romy sings the lines Atti kari re, Batti kari re. It’s hard to pin down what genre it is – there’s a chorus that resembles Goan music, and there’s one stanza that goes close to Carnatic – but if I have to call it something, maybe it’s some form of folk. The delightful “Tittar Bittar” comes just when you start wondering if the songs are orbiting around a templateish structure. The composer throws in variation when he can and that’s true for the album as a whole as well. Shekhar plays along – the first couple of lines are in Hindi but he inserts a ‘Suno Kanmani’ in the third to ground it in the film’s cultural milieu. And the staccato male harmonies mimic a sanskritised chant. The female chorus has an undertone of sadness of women singing in a bidai. You have the nadaswaram at the beginning (they are getting married!). It’s light and frothy enough to be liked without paying attention to the specifics, but it also gives you a sense of the film’s world – its characters, situation and settings. He and lyricist Raj Shekhar ( Tanu Weds Manu 1 and 2) are both specialists – in the sense that they like working closely with the director and the script as a whole project – and you can see that in the first song “Mann Kesar Kesar”. Prabhakaran gets a playing field a lot of Hindi film composers aren’t granted anymore (a decision taken at the producer level that must be lauded). It’s even better if that composer has a ‘sound’, and Justin Prabhakaran certainly has one: fresh, lively, with a flair for symphony orchestra and Indian folk, sometimes classical, but also rambunctious and groovy – a dash of AR Rahman and a whole lot of Ilaiyaraaja.
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It makes sense for Meenakshi Sundareshwar, a Hindi film with South Indian protagonists, to have a Tamil composer do the music – it adds flavour and lends authenticity to the film.