In short, the much awaited album ends up becoming a carbon copy of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's chartbuster Don - The Chase begins again. Yuvan Shankar Raja, who hadn't had a good chartbuster hit since Sathum Podathey's "Pesiguren", seems to be going the "Himesh Way" and I'm not talking about his nasality (he's got Raja-sir's genes yaar!) I'm talking about his repition. Details follow...
Take the Billa Theme for instance. While Don's Revisited and Chase Begins Again themes were phenominal, the rest of the song seems to be stock tunes from his earlier hit with Director Vishuvardhan (ironically, the one directing this remake) Pattiyal. Time-pass I guess.
My name is Billa ends up becoming a short remix with some unclear vocals of singer Naveen. It's a track that's still needs time getting used to. For that, we blame MSV. Not for his music, but rather our habitual growth with the SPB tune.
The other two tracks, Naan Muttum (a pale copy of "Yeh Mera Dil" [DON] and Sei, not being the "Aaj Ki Raat" [DON]. Just imagine Sunitha Sarathy or some pop singer with some techno jig and groove and bam, there's your filler tracks.
Sevval Kodi [Maurya Re] is proably the best track I've heard in this album. For that we must thank Vijay Yesudas for giving me the grace of de-grading this review. I'm not sarcastic. Great instrumentals!
With bated breath my favorite song of the 80s Billa was "Vethalaya Pothendi" by Malaysia Vasudevan [Their version of Khaike Paan Banaraswala.] Here's it's all jazzed up with some kuthu-ized percussion and there's your remix. Add in Shankar Mahadevan and subtract the "Vasudevan" out while shooting it in "Malaysia" (pun intended). Again, it's more or less gone the way of the recent Vijay flop movie Azhagiya Tamil Magan's hit track "Ponmagal Vanthaal." This also goes the same for "My Name is Billa."
In the end, Billa 2007 ends up being an average album. In comparison to this remake and Last year's blockbuster in hindi,the latter had some great tunes. Here's it's all re-mixed and re-jazzed instead of the "Stealthness" it Enjoy "Sevval Kodi" and "Theme Music" and forget the rest.
Rating: ** 1/2
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Hey ! dude...The album rocks..Keep ur commenst with u !!! lol'z
no chance. yeh mera dil has no resemblence. if u want u check here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9ToLlkvog&feature=related
u must be either a vijay fan or a harris jayaraj fan.. billa rocks 2007
I'm not a Harris fan or Vijay fan.
The album hasn't sold me yet. I dig Sevval kodi and the theme but the rest....well....they're hammed more or less.
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