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Audio
review of Allari Ramudu - Allari
rammed
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Sreya Sunil
Jr.
NTR, B Gopal and RP Patnaik are the talk
of the tinsel town today. Jr. NTR, having garnered a huge
mass following with his sensational Aadi,
dons a full-length mass hero role again in Allari Ramudu.
B. Gopal having delivered a stupendous hit in the form of
Narasimha
Naidu, is the director in the reckoning now
with two most eagerly awaited films in his kitty (Allari
Ramudu and Megastar's Indra). RP Patnaik who rose
to instant fame with his musical scores for Chitram,
Nuvvu
Nenu and Manasanta
Nuvve, is the uncrowned king of music in Tollywood
today. This is RP's fifth musical score this year. His other
albums so far in 2002 being - Nuvvu
Leka Nenu Lenu, Santosham,
Sreeram
and Jayam
When
three hotshots come together for the first time, nothing less
than a scintillating display of fireworks is expected. But
sometimes, not all the crackers burn the way they ought to.
Some bomb out, some explode with a deafening cacophony and
some dazzle us. Even if one sets aside the expectations from
such a combination, the music of this flick is not at all
slick. Hackneyed instrumentation, banal tunes, mediocre lyrics
result in a trite allari that is rammed into this album.
1.
2002 Varaku (Listen)    
This is a revamped version of NTR-Sreedevi's highly popular
'Aaku chaatu pindhe tadise' from Vetagaadu.
The original song was composed by Chakaravarthy and sung by
SPB and Suseela. SPB and Usha sing this version.
Though it lacks the punch of the original song, it's the singing
of SPB and Usha, which makes it worth listening to. Lyrics
by Veturi in the original song are much better than what Pothula
Ravi Kiran pens here. If Veturi talks subtly about the
girl as 'aaku chaatu pindhe tadise', Ravi Kiran prefers
to refer her as 'choodaledey intha saruku'.
2.
Chelia Chelia (Listen)    
This is the only melodious song in this album. Though it has
no great instrumentation, RP comes up with a hummable
tune. RP, Usha do their job of singing this song well.
Lyrics by a new lyricist Chaitanya Prasad are decent
considering the quality of lyrics in the other songs of this
album.
3.
Rukhmini Rukhmini (Listen)    
A supposedly fast beat song sung by Ravi Verma and
Usha. Though Ravi Verma's voice sounds like that of
Vandemataram Srinivas and Devi Sri Prasad, he nevertheless
impresses and so does Usha. If Chaitanya Prasad pens
lyrics like 'looks loni x-ray ni penchutondi pulse-beat'
(Wonder what he means by that? That is, if at all his intention
was to come up with something meaningful in the first place),
he also pens some witty lines like 'muripalanu vediga tagani,
madi meegada toduga veyani'.
4.
Bodduni Choodayyo (Listen)    
This song starts off as a Punjabi folk number with the chorus
singing 'shama' and 'aha' (this part resembles
the chorus singing 'aha' in the 'Snehituda'
song of Sakhi). Karthik and Kousalya
sing this number effectively. What can I talk about the lyrics
written by Pothula Ravi Kiran, which goes 'Boddunu
Choodayyo, Bongaramadayyo!'? They speak for themselves.
Seduction seems to have taken an entirely new route these
days where the girl has to 'explicitly' say certain things
to catch the attention of the guy.
5.
Voppula Kuppa (Listen)    
RP, who renders his vocals for this song, sounds like
Altaf Raja singing a Telugu song going overboard whenever
and wherever possible. Usha, is her usual self. Though
the 'pallavi' of the song is catchy, the tune in the
'charanams' treads the commonplace path. Lyrics by
Chaitanya Prasad are just about mediocre.
6.
Ee town naadiraa (Listen)    
There's one line in this song written by Pothula Ravi Kiran
which sums up this whole song - 'Mari cheap!' Mano
sings this song in his usual style doing justice to what was
expected out of him. It is solely because of him that the
rating of this song goes beyond one star. RP shouts
a few words in the song and Usha gets to mouth a line
or two here and there.
RP
is known for his beautiful melodious numbers apart from his
penchant for folk songs. Most of the best songs in his albums
till date are melodious numbers retaining the richness of
the lyrics and bringing out the best out of his singers. With
Allari Ramudu he has tried something different, to
come up with 'pakka mass' numbers but leaves a lot
to be desired. If this album does any good, then that is -
it makes you appreciate RP's recent albums (Santosham,
Sreeram
and Jayam)
all the more.
Some
of the songs in this album are bound to become popular as
the release date of the movie draws closer and will hang in
there as long as the movie is in the news. But not a single
song will remain etched in our memory unlike at least one
song from each of RP's previous albums. The songs, if well
picturized (adding the oomph of Arti Agarwal and Nagma
and the amazing dancing skills of Jr. NTR) might catch up
after the release of the movie. Until then, this ramudu
might not create any allari.
Click
here to read the other articles by Sreya Sunil
click
here for other audio reviews - Indra,
Jayam,
Sreeram,
Kanulu Moosina
Neevaye, Vasu
& Santosham
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