’Enakku 20 Unakku 18’-music review
Music-A R Rahman
Lyrics- PA.Vijay
It’s gone. The music’s gone. He’s gone. The man’s gone. After hearing his genius producing excellent
pieces in ’Jeans’, ’Sangamam’, you wonder whether it is the same person who came up
with ’Enakku 20 Unakku 18’. A R Rahman’s second ’youth’ offering, after ’Boys’, disappoints.
The first song ’Azhaginna Azhagi’ begins ith a bang, and you think that it is some kind of
fast, peppy number. Alas, it is a ’Tak Din’ song, the beats rhytmic and continous.
From beats, Rahman moves to ’happiness’. The secong song ’Santhipoma’ has a happy, pleasant
feel in it.Unni Menon sounds good.
’Strictly for u’th’, screams the tagline for this film.The 3rd song symbolises that. You have Blaaze
shouting/screaming something. What does words, so-called lyrics like ’Gama Gama’, ’’Bling Dinga
Long’ mean?
With disappointment and hope, you play Side B. The first song here ’Oru Nanban’ starts beautifully.
Seems, that in this song ARR had a confusion, thought of making it slow, carnatic but ended up
with a pacy, normal number.SPB Charan here is okay, but nothing like ’Alaipayuthe’ or ’Boys’.
’Yedo Yedo’ is the best song of the film. It has a haunting, melancholic feel to it, probably
depicting separation. It sounds somewhat like ’Udaya Udaya’ in ’Udaya’.
The last song is ’Asathura’, a typical college song where boys go behing girls, singing loudly,
describing their beauty. That type of song which you’ve heard a thousand times before.
Verdict- The well-known ’Rahman Rule’ holds good for this film too. You hear it again and
again, only then will you like it.
Srinivasa Ramanujam