'Madurey' music does not match 'Gilli's'

"Madhurey" is music director Vidyasagar's latest venture after the stupendously successful "Gilli".

The album starts off with the rather crudely titled "Machhaan Peru Madhurey" - a rather literal translation would mean "brother-in-law's name is Madhurey". This is a peppy track but is no "Appadi Podu", though the song has attracted the college crowd.

Shankar Mahadevan, as expected, has added a lot of energy and vigour to the song.

The next song, "Pambarakkannu Pachamilakaa", belted out by Udit Narayan and Srilekha Parthasarathy, is another track in the same vein as "Machhaan Peru Madhurey", but is not as entertaining as the first one.

By the time the third track draws to a close, one begins to feel whether all three sound a bit similar.

"Ice Katti, Ice Katti", which is the track that follows, is yet another song in the same vein, but slightly slower. Karthik has tried to give life to his lines but it is not one of those songs that would linger in the mind for too long.

The rest of the tracks, though sung by good singers like Anuradha Sriram, Karthik and Madhu Balakrishnan, are rather pedestrian and unimpressive.

After listening to the album a few times, one gets the impression that Vidyasagar was trying very hard to replicate the success of "Gilli". Alas! It was not to be.

The negative aspect of "Madhurey" is that every song sounds the same, and all the tracks have almost the same beat, making it difficult to listen to the entire cassette at one go. Click the Movie button below for more info:
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