Unlike last year, where I felt the entire music scene, across languages, was unexciting, this year was slightly different. The Hindi film (and TV series) music was a total slog! Dismal is the word ...

Din Jo Dhal Gaya – Kuch Sapney Apne (Vishal Bhardwaj) – Hindi: A searing melody that is so very Vishal Bhardwaj, particularly when Rekha Bhardwaj goes, heartbreakingly, ‘Lautaayegaa?’ at the end of ...

The first Weeklies of 2026 has a lot of backlog from the 2nd half of December considering I closed the entires for my annual round-up by mid-December. So, solid playlist this time, with 20 songs! Ghar ...

Surprisingly, the songs of Brother are still not on Spotify (as also JioSaavn), though they are on Gaana and YouTube! Kasturi – Amar Prem Ki Prem Kahani (Prasad Sashte) – Hindi: The kind of song that ...

It’s that time of the year again when I spend a LOT of time rehearing the songs I enjoyed all through the year and make lists! So, here we go again – this is the 17th year of my making a multilingual ...

The title song is tantalizingly short and it’s perhaps the shorter-than-usual duration that wants you to listen to it more and more! Amitabh Bhattacharya seems to be channelizing his inner Vaali, the ...

A humongous playlist, for Milliblog Weeklies’ standards – 28 songs this week! Title song – Ek Deewane ki Deewaniyat (Kaushik-Guddu) – Hindi: When the ‘Tu hi armaan’ line explodes, guitars blazing the ...

Saathiya – Yudhra (Shankar Ehsaan Loy) – Hindi: More than the lead melody, it’s in two other instances that I realized the trio’s undeniable musical signature. One was the chorus (Prakriti Giri, ...

Back after a three-week break. Reason? Health (for those not following me on Twitter)! So, a massive playlist of 21 songs! Bheegi Saree and Danger – Param Sundari (Sachin-Jigar) – Hindi: Just like how ...

Let me start with a confession. Despite having been a massive fan of Ilayaraja ever since I remember, I heard ‘Jotheyali’ from the 1980 Kannada film Geetha…for the first time in my life…in 2008. Yes, ...

Jimikky’s Ghazal – Star (Yuvan Shankar Raja) – Tamil/Hindi: Barring the fact that Sony Music/Yuvan choose not to credit Mehdi Hassan for the tune of ‘Mohabbat Karne Wale’ (though they have credited ...