Gaaaaalipata...

A bit late with my review of Galipata, the most awaited movie in recent times. Galipata songs are rocking, every time you hear it you will enjoy more and more. I first heard Galipata songs on its release day a month back in kannadaaudio.com, was disapointed immediately like most people, we were all expecting a MM repeat. But on second hearing or so.. the whole perception of the quality of the songs changed. That evening bought the music CD, this CD is now playing non stop everafter. Nowadays I have decided to buy CDs of good movies to encourage the industry even if I downloaded songs.
Well anyways the purpose of this mail is to talk about Galipata and here is my review of the songs.
Music Director: Harikrishna
1. Aakasha iste yaake [6/10], Kunal Ganjawala
Fast Peppy number which is a common place in most Ganesh's movies nowadays. Jayanth kaykini has penned the lyrics, good stuff, but you normally expect solid stuff[Not good stuff] from Kaykini.
2. Minchagi neenu baralu [8/10], Sonu Nigam
This is the 'Anisuthide' of Galipata. Most of instruments used are also the same. Your first thought will be 'Hey I have heard it before', but then the raaga is different and now people are saying this is better than 'anisuthide'. Sonu Nigam is as usual great with one or two pronounciation mistakes, Jayanth Kaykini is awesome. This song alone is good enough for you to shell out the CD money on. The picturization is out of the world in karavali's beaches and Bekal Fort, you can check them out in YouTube.
3. Nadeem dheen thana [5/10] Chitra KS A song which will resonate well with people blessed with classical touch [I miss out here :) ], Yograj Bhat fishes out the lyrics for the song. Yograj bhat was commenting on TV that he has used 300 yakshagana performers for the song, guess would be a visual treat.
4. Kavithe Kavithe [8/10] Vijay Prakash Wow, what a song, I just love this number. The song penned by Hrudaya Shiva starts out slow and suddenly speeds up its tempo for the last one minute. The lyrics are just out of the world, bass guitar riffs and trailing keyboard music are audible only when heard in a considerable volume adds quality to the song. TV trailors show the song picturization in Kodchadri in dull evening light, cant wait to see it on screen.
5. Jeeva Kaleva [7/10] Sonu Nigam Yograj Bhat has wrote the lyrics for the sad version of the 'Minchagi Neenu' song. IMHO the lyrics here is far superior than the kaykini one.
6. Aha bedurugombe [5/10] Udit Narayan This is a regualar song picturized on Diganth and neethu in a village setting, Udit Narayan voice is clearly a misfit here. But this song too grows on you as you listen to this more and more.
Overall the album scores 7/10, it is a must buy for every kannada film music lover.

Movie is releasing on 18/01, hope it lives up to the expectations. We need this movie to be a hit so that our directors try something new, if this and 'Soori's 'Indthi ninna preethiya' fails we will have directors like S Narayan churning out remakes of Tamil/Telugu movies like rat's litter. Galipata has to compete with few big releases this friday, there is Vikram's Bheema in Tamil, Balakrishna's '.. Mogadu' in Telugu, a Nagesh Kukunoor's movie in Hindi and Ratnjana's 'Honganasu' in kannada [this also seems to be a Good movie, hope both succeed!!].

Following link has few dialogues of Galipata, some are witty, Rangayana Raghu as usual rocks[heard he charges 1 lakh for a day].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saefYLNRKVo


Inthi,
Nimmavanu