![]() ![]() tells me this seems to be a modern take on the mangalashtaka songs sung at Marathi weddings. Navrai Majhi is another song to add to the steadily increasing Marathi-flavored/worded songs in Bollywood. Good energetic effort on the singing though, Clinton Cerejo and the lady Clinton introduced through Coke Studio, Bianca Gomes. And in this case the lyrics or the vocals don’t quite help mitigate that déjà vu. Manhattan comes with a stronger EMAET feel in fact that flute (synth-generated?) hook is quite evocative of a similar hook in the EMAET title song. The male version sung by Amit doesn’t work as much, mainly because those cute-sounding lines are not exactly fit for male rendition. ![]() Like Amit Trivedi’s smart bluegrass-y employment of strings (both interludes are lovely), and the chorus, that help sufficiently offset the EMAET hangover that the song carries about it. But overall listen has given me more reasons to like it. The first time I heard the title song in the teasers I had felt that the only things going for the song are Swanand Kirkire’s playful lyrics and Shilpa Rao’s rendition. ![]() You can listen to the soundtrack here (thanks to the link) ![]()
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