Chandi

Film: Chandi
Music: NR Shankar and Chinna, Omics Music
Rating: **
Listening to this album can be a very random, underwhelming experience. There isn’t one track in the entire list that is listenable. In fact, it would be an understatement to call it a sound drag. The record opens on an electronic note with Chal Chal (sung by Bhargavi Pillai).
Lyricist Chandra Bose seemed to have dished out all his stock lines with generous helpings of English,Telugu and Hindi slangs.The next track Ganga Ganga (sung by Harini) is another standard edition number that goes on and on about the river Ganga, presumably comparing the actress to the holy river. Lyricist Ramajogayya seems to have exhausted his stockpile of female Hindu goddesses for the song. Then comes the item song, A apple la (sung by Ramya and NSK).
Breaking away from the usual drum beat, the composer has digitised the sound, and it ends up sounding run down electronic dance number.Lyrics by Bhaskarbhatla are well pretty innocuous punning on the English alphabets. Kailash Kher’s shrill voice tone is the only saving grace of the patriotic number Alluri Sitharamaraju (sung by Ramya and NSK) that follows.
Lines by Ramajogayya Sastry are all hyperbolic that idolise the freedom fighter. The composer seems to have saved his best (which is not very good, by the way) for the last. The Oore Ledhuga (sung by Sri Soumya) is a sad song that is rendered in a western classical style.The ordeal ends with the theme song that is also unbearably over the top.