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I had promised to update my previous post about Guru’s music with artist names. I found this and more on a Rahman fan site. It would have made my previous post too long so I decided to do a new post on this. Here’s some information about the songs:

1. ‘Barso Re’ Shreya Ghoshal & Uday Mazumdar. Picturised on Aishwarya Rai in Athirapally waterfalls, Kerala.
2. ‘Tere Bina’ A.R.Rahman, Chinmayi, Additional Voices ‘Murtaza, Qadir’. A.R.Rahman termed it as his favorite song in the album, in his MumbaiMirror interview.
3. ‘Ek Lo Ek Muft’ Bappi Lahiri, K.S. Chitra, Additional Voices Tanvi, Saloni, Boney, Jaidev. Mentioned as ‘Yammo Yammo’ and ‘Bolo Guru’ in different sites, this is a Bengali number sung by Bappi Lahiri. This is a seven-minute song, which is reportedly used when the opening credits of the film roll up.
4. ‘Baazi Laga’ Udit Narayan, Madhushree, Swetha, Bhargavee. Additional Programming Pravin Mani.
5. ‘Mayya’ Maryem Hassan Toller, Chinmayee, Keerthi. Programming & Additional Arrangements - Ranjit Barot. This song has been picturized in Turkey, and features Mallika Sherawat.
6. ‘Ay Hairathe’ Hariharan, Alka Yagnik. Additional Voices, A.R.Rahman, Aslam Mohammed.
7. ‘Jaage Hain’ K.S.Chitra , A.R.Rahman & Madras Choral Group.

UPDATE (11/20) : Here’s another review of Guru that I found interesting. Here’s a translation of some of the songs.

UPDATE (11/21) : Soundtrack with some nice comments is available here.

So far Guru is different. This was something I was eagerly awaiting. After all, it’s the Rahman-Mani Ratnam combination once again, the same combination that delivered great albums like Roja, Bombay, Dil Se, Alaypayuthey (Sakhi in Telugu, Saathiya in Hindi), and to some extent, Yuva. After Rang De Basanti (RDB), I had great expectations from this album, and, to say the very least, it’s actually a very high quality album if you discount Baazi Laga). And it has been a pretty long wait too, after RDB. That album was released in late 2005. Wow!! Feels like eternity. Since then, I’ve shifted many blog addresses. On a personal front too a lot has changed since then. This blog didn’t exist then. I hadn’t even started writing about Bollywood then. So, has it been worth the wait? While this is not his best album, I think some of the songs are really good). Here’s the list of songs and my comments about each one (note: I don’t know who the singers are, I’ll update that later):

Barso Re : A decent song with a nice Rajasthani tune, probably one of the better ones in the album. I liked the background beats a lot. Also, I love the way the tune changes. It sounds a little bit like Yeh Rishta from Meenaxi, but there’s not much in common between the two songs to say Rahman was inspired by it.

Tere Bina : As of now, I think this is by far the best song in the album. It’s Continue reading »