Movies, Music, Books, Etc by Snehith Kumbla

On RRR's stupendous success in India and abroad, and how M.M. Keeravani needs more applause for it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Three movie soundtrack songs composed and sung by maverick Hindi movie soundtrack composer Himesh Reshammiya. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Celebrating the Hindi film songs sung by the timeless romantic Krishnakumar Kunnath, known by his stage name KK, who we lost too soon on May 31, 2022. He was only 53. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Recording the arrival of the southwest monsoon in India. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

A medley of R.D. Burman songs to celebrate his extraordinary talent. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Featuring R.D. Burman's swan song, the soundtrack that reestablished his reputation as a maverick, genius music director. But R.D. wasn't around to enjoy ots success. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Featuring A.R. Rahman's stunning fusion of western sounds with Indian vocals to produce one of the greatest Indian soundtracks of all time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

On the amazing M.M. Kreem score that surprisingly few are talking about - the brilliant songs and bgm for the exagerrated, over-the-top action entertainer RRR. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Talking about how Michael Giacchino's score elevates Matt Reeves' The Batman (2022). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Revisiting the 2002 Rajkumar Santoshi movie, cowritten with Piyush Mishra, featuring music by A.R. Rahman, starring Ajay Devgn, Sushant Singh and others. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

The Will Smith slap to Chris Rock, the implications, reactions. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Celebrating the singing journey of probably one of the greatest Indian playback singers of our time, Shreya Ghoshal. She has been singing for movies for 20 years, and only turned 38 today! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

The underrated song of the week is from a movie that livea in its soundtrack that has freaky opening notes, electronic robotic airs, and some superb melodic singing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Celebrating the legendary Hindi film songs of one of the greatest Indian poets and Hindi film lyricists, Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Wishing the masterly vocalist and composer Shankar Mahadevan a grand 55th birthday, here's a selection of songs that dot the Shankar Mahadevan story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Featuring three Hindi film anti-war songs, mingled with readings from war in literature to make this special episode on the stupidity of war. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

An atmospheric A.R. Rahman classic unusual for its vocal choices, especially featuring Malayalam legends M.G.Sreekumar and K.S.Chitra, and how Rahman uses technology to his advantage. Featuring Javed Akhtar as lyricist. A song that certainly deserves more listeners. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Featuring a soulful qawwali sung by the zany, innovative Sonu Nigam, composed by Shailendra Barve, lyrics by Jitendra Joshi. Moving away from qawwali cliches, devoid of heavy chorus, yet full of soul. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Featuring a soulful qawwali sung by the zany, innovative Sonu Nigam, composed by Shailendra Barve, lyrics by Jitendra Joshi. Moving away from qawwali cliches, devoid of heavy chorus, yet full of soulful. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message

Featuring three more songs amd some honourable mentions from the epic journey that the great playback singer Lata Mangeshkar had across seven decades in Indian soundtrack history. Music copyright belongs to the music owners including Saregama, YashRaj Music, Sony Music and others. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/snehith-kumbla/message