A rarity. 2 posts in one day. Both on music.
Yet another song which has captured my fancy in recent days. This is from a movie in my native language – Kannada – the movie is “Mungaru Male” which literally means The first rains of monsoon. The movie has been a big hit in a often-deprived-of-anything-sensible Kannada film industry, and much of film’s acclaim comes from the cinematic photography in and around Malnad, which is green, mountainous, and yes, gets a lot of rain (In fact, second only to Cherapunji, if you’d like to know!).
The song is Kunidu Kunidu Baare, which means, well umm, “Come to me dancing dancing jumping jumping”. OK, its not as funny as it sounds. The first time I heard it a week back, I was absolutely stuck to it. It has a very north Indian flavor in terms of tune and reminds you of those 90’s songs, but still very melodious and very hummable.
Trivia: The music director of the movie Mano Murthy is a network engineer who resides in California. He visits India to record the music, and then shifts back to his day job.