Nene Raju Nene Mantri Audio Review- Telugu 2017

Movie: Nene Raju Nene Mantri (2017)

Director: Teja

Producer: Suresh Babu

Cast: Rana Daggubati, Kajal Agarwal & Catherine

Music: Anup Rubens

Nene Raju Nene Mantri (English: I'm the King and I'm the Minister) is an upcoming 2017 Telugu political thriller film written and directed by Teja, featuring Rana Daggubati, Kajal Aggarwal and Catherine Tresa in the lead roles.

Production began in April 2016 and principal photography commenced in October 2016 in Karaikudi. The teaser was released on June 6, coinciding with the 81st birthday anniversary of D. Ramanaidu, Rana's grandfather. The film will be dubbed in Tamil as Naan Aanaiyittaal and Malayalam as Raaja Kireedam 

Its the next film that Rana is doing after a huge successfull blockbuster Indian wide recognised Baahubali-2 film. Teja the director of Chitram, Nuvvu Nenu, Jayam is known for creating variety love stories with variety of emotions, now he has come up with a different genre with Rana as the lead character, so let us see what he has done. This film had viral responses when treasers and songs got released, we dont know what the film is about, but everyone could guess that it has brought something new and different, so let us wait and see till august 11.

Anup Rubens signed the project and has scored 6 different tunes. Let us see what he has done. 

1. Devuditho Samaram

Singers: Anup Rubens & Chorale Group
Lyricist: Lakshmi Bhopal & Surendra Krishna

Rating: 4/5

The first song is completely new and fresh. I did'nt expect this type of music from Anup Rubens, it is like we are listening to another shade of music being composed by Anup Rubens. It had lot of drum beats getting its resemblance in Baahubali-2. I felt Anup mostly brought those beats from Baahubali-2, but this is just a coincidence, nothing contraversial. Anup simply rocked the stage with those heavy interludes. The heavy drums dominated the song. I felt chorus was a bit loud, but definitely suited to the tee. One which was out of order was Anup's singing, which did'nt sink with the heavy chorus. Anup would have left the whole song to chorus itself. I dont' know whats the emotion and feel..but this song had thick emotional value at its lyrical department and music, its really ashtonishing. Movie might solve this puzzle. Everything went well except louder chorus and Anup's singing & this is the first time Iam comming across this lyricists, where they did complete justice to the song.

2. Jogendra Jogendra

Singers: Master Rishon Rubens, Divya & Chorale Group

Lyricist: Surendra Krishna

Rating: 5/5

OMG!! listen to this song, it proves the stamina of Anup Rubens. This song also had same heavy drum beats which were rocking like anything. This song is simply superb, but its disappointing that it ended very fast. The opening of the song had a child crying "jogendra..jogendra", might be it was Rishon(son of Anup). Then I dont know where Divya went, she was not audible at all, might be because of loud chorus, she was not audible. However song is simply amazing, which had its own feel, freshness and motivation. Surendra Krishna needs a special mention, though the song had been looping the same couple of two lines till the end.

3. Kathulatho Kolimi

Singers: Anup Rubens

Lyricist: Lakshmi Bhopal

Rating: 4/5

Third song is same of that of above one, is Anup using same tune for all the songs, this song also had the same heavy beats, loud chorus and thick mystery emotion being carried till the end of the song. I have no complaint with the song, but film makers are very smart enough, they induced all those emotion where it would connect songs perfectly with the screen. So I have nothing much to say. Anup was better in this song than the previous one. But at moments he used loud chorus which makes us reduce the volume. Rest was fine and purely situational.

4. Radhamma Radhamma

Singers: Vijay Yesudas & Divya spandana

Lyricist: Surendra Krishna

Rating: 4/5

This song starts with a different tune, but same beats and same chorus. This is yet another continuation song of "Jogendra Jogendra".  From this song we can conclude that Anup is using only one tune for all the songs, I don't know what was such a necessity, to use same tunes for all the songs. And I was shocked to hear Vijay Yesudas in this type of song. But he was the perfect tee for the song. Hats off to Anup for inducing melody into this typical song. One thing is clear from this, that Anup is weaving melody or anything required for the song with "Jogendra Jogendra" as its outer theme. Vijay's magical voice was very pleasing and Divya was a bit frail and faded away due to the heavy chorus.

5. Sukhibhava Annuru

Singers: Shreya Ghoshal & Rohith

Lyricist: Surendra Krishna

Rating: 3.5/5

This song also had the same tune with little bit different instrumentation and different genre. This is a beautiful romantic melody between the lead pair. I have nothing to speak about this, a routine stuff from lyrical department. But I don't know why this song is pulling my heart towards it, it has some different sound which sounds special with all those classical and confusing orchestration. Shreya Ghoshal sounds angelic with her routine problems in diction and pronunciation. All the first lines are messy, I did'nt understand a piece, she went on crooning something, I did'nt understand whether it is telugu or tamil. So bad she was at her lyrical pronunciation. Inspite this many attempts in telugu since past 10 years she does'nt know how to sing telugu, She is my favorite singer, but this is the element which pulls her back, otherwise she would have become one more Chitra in telugu industry, she is getting enough chances, but never utilises them properly. And I don't know where was Rohith, his part was so minimal.

6. Sumangalai

Singers: Sravani

Lyricists: Surendra Krishna

Rating: 4.5/5

This is the same song of "Sukhibava Annaru". But I guess this is the pathos which is amazingly composed by Anup Rubens. Through the emotion in the song, we can guess either the actress might have died or went away from the village. The song had right amount of emotion. Sravani was good, the melancholic huming by chorus is really very sad, and realistic. Song had thick emotion, but the singers could have expressed little bit more.

Picks of The Album: Everything except Shreya Ghoshal's pronunciation of couple of lines.

OVERALL RATING: 8.3/10

REMARKS: Iam in full of praise for Anup Rubens, you are the real hero of the album, he simply rocked the songs. He proved his stamina with this album, ATB for his future endeavours.