Kuselan - Music Review

Another much anticipated music album of the year was released last week. For a young music director like G V Prakash, to get to compose Superstar's movie so early in his career, this is like a golden dream opportunity to take his career to next level. Was he successful?

The first thing I thought the music director got it right for the most part is the choice of singers for songs. Hariharan-Sujata were beautiful in Sollamma, Shreya Goshal is good in the solo number Chaaral, Shankar Mahadevan is bold in Cinema Cinema (though I would have prefered SPB considering the sentiment of the song), Daler sounded differently in Om Zaarare and Kailash Kher & Prasanna blended well as a pair in Perinba. I really feel happy for Prasanna who got a chance in such a big movie. He is one of the few young singers (like Vijay Yesudas) who has got terriffic depth in voice and still maintain melody.

Sollamma is a very nice melody number and probably the best song of the movie. Cinema Cinema is nice to hear with some interesting voice-sound mix. Om Zaarare sounds different but there's nothing great about the song. Chaaral looks like 2008 remix of 80's Ilayaraaja song. Perinba is "Veyilodu Vilayaadi" revisited. The instrumentals used in the songs sounds Rahmanish and some of them are direct lifts from old songs.

In terms of lyrics, looks like we are back to நீதான் இவனே, நீதான் அவனே mode again. Too much hero worship, hopefully it is in tune with the tone of the movie.

Now back to the question, did G V Prakash grab the opportunity? May be yes, may be not. The songs are peppy enough to keep the listeners interested, but not outstanding to tag G V as "big movie" music director yet.