Agnyatavaasi Audio Review- Telugu (2018)

Movie: Agnyatavaasi (2018)

Director: Trivikram Srinivas

Producer: Harika Haasine Creations

Cast: 'Powerstar' Pawan Kalyan, Keerthy Suresh & Anu Emannueal

Music: Anirudh Ravichander

Music label: Aditya Music

Note: As per the existing trend the album gets automatically updated after all the songs are released. Its known that PK's song gets released on 31st. So I will update it later.

Agnyatavasi (Power Star Pawan Kalyan 25th film) is the  title of an upcoming Indian Telugu movie directed by Trivikram Srinivas and starring Pawan Kalyan in the lead role as a software engineer. The movie began principal photography at Bangkok on September 9, 2017.The film began principal photography on April 3, 2017. Bollywood actor Parag Tyagi is debuting in Telugu films as a villain.
The film started principle photography on April 3, 2017 with a small coffee shop scene, shot at Ciclo Cafe. Afterwards, the unit moved to the special set erected in Ramoji Film City to shoot a high-octane action sequence. Some part of the film was also shot in Annapurna studio. The film will involve a major sequence and a song shot in Bangkok. The unit moved to Bulgaria on October 26, 2017 for 15 days to shoot two songs and some dialogue. After the foreign schedule, the film shot in Hyderabad and the entire shooting has been wrapped up by the end of November. The principle cast includes 'Stunning' Khushboo, Boman Irani, Aadhi Pinnisetty, Indraja, Rao Ramesh, Vennela Kishore & others.

 'Powerstar' Pawan Kalyan after a top-4th highest grosser- average critic runner 'Katamarayudu' is back with the blockbuster celluloid Trivikram-PsPk's "Agnyatavaasi". We all have experienced the tsunami that this blockbuster combination has created in the form of Jalsa & Attarintiki Daredi. Now the expectations are no less, all are set to sky, it happens with almost all powerstar's films right from Khushi-Badri times, as this hero has set his stamina levels like that. There is no doubt or any hindrance in saying that he is the no.1 hero of this generation followed by Mahesh Babu, Jr.NTR etc of Telugu industry. The craze he has in the markets proves that, his hard-working nature defines the above statement. Above all everyone is interested in his films due to his utmost attitude which is very generous and down-to earth, this makes him the most loved person among the youth. It is really difficult for any hero to with stand on the same platform even after 10 years continuous flop movies, but here goes this Powerstar even without losing single fan nor inch of his spell bounding craze following. A hero like Pk who entered politics recently, really needs a lot of time & daring to balance both on the same spring balance. We know how hard it is to balance both on a single hand, but here is PK, a man of complete inspiration who is educating people from off-screen & entertaining people on-screen, what else can we expect than this from star-hero's.  The things which he is doing have created magic all over, he proved what he is upto & he has been honored with the prestigious international honor 'IEBF- Indo European Business Forum'  at the great 'House Of Lords' in London on Nov 17, 2017. A great actor, a great leader & a great inspiration. Hats off sir.

Coming to the movie, really PK fans are eagerly waiting for a huge success from PK's side, where I'am one among them. Since it is Trivikram's direction fans are extremely delighted & are sure to celebrate its success. Trivikram who made "A..aa" cross 50 crore club without starring a big hero, is a man who stood as a solid proof for his amazing direction & he himself told he is one among best directors in Tollywood. When he pairs with a hero like Pk, it really becomes a blockbuster before its release. All PK's films do not wait for the success, but fans shower success in the form of collections, all his films are box-office hits irrespective of its acclaim critically.  It is slated to release on 10.01.18.

Coming to music, right from Gokulamlo Seetha, PK's movies never disappoint us in the form of music, whether it was Ramana Gogula, Koti, S.A.Rajkumar, Manisharma, Vidya Sagar, Deva, DSP, A.R.Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja or Anup. So now its time for Anirudh to shake tollywood with his different music. This is Anirudh's debut as a music director in telugu, but not his first movie in Telugu as we heard  Navamanmadhudu, Raghuvaran B.Tech, Remo etc from him. Now lets see his direct music in Telugu, definitely his music will'nt sound like the same old Telugu music, but will have different flavor & slight Tamil ting, lets see how many will like that. They have released a song's teaser on 2nd sep 2017 on the eve of PK's birthday, the song featured Anirudh at vocals, Trivikram enjoying it & at last a serious motion poster of Pk spinning a chair. The song went viral among fans & other melody-lovers, but lets see what else it had.

Coming to the movie, this movie was on records from day 1 of its announcement, films unit released the teaser on 16 Dec, with beautiful screen presence of PK which made his fans go crazy. The teaser was on #1 on Trending in youtube with 6Million+ views & 440K likes, in 24 hrs of its release which proved the stamina of TFI. Putting all this records ahead, the thing which bothered everyone was PK's overwhelming screen presence & Anirudh's classy BGM of 'Krishna Swagatam" song. 

Talking about Trivikram, neither his movies lack music sense, he has extracted the best from Koti, DSP, Manisharma & Mickey. Now he has brought good music for this film from Anirudh I guess. So, either there are no less expectations from Anirudh's side, so all fans are expecting a musical blockbuster from this combo.Then why late lets peep into the audio after a very long intro. The unit had a grand audio launch on Dec 19 with 3 songs getting released  live and 2 songs were performed live which got released earlier. The last song, a surprise for fans is kept aside and released it later on Jan 1. Anirudh composed 6 tunes with 3 songs written by Sri Mani, 1 amazing stuff by Sastry garu & 1 by Bhaskar Bhatla. So why late lets directly go into it.

01. Dhaga Dhaga Mani

Singers: Anirudh Ravichander

Lyrics: Sri Mani

Rating: 5/5

The title song opens to much surprise of masses with a powerful holy chant praising the hero like in Khaleja or Srimanthudu. It is absolutely perfect. The tune is completely electrifying, powerful and amazing. It is a feast for music lovers. This song is composed in complete contrary to all other title songs of PK and this is one more amazing stuff. Anirudh made it bumping and thumping, tune is perfect with rich orchestration. A goosebumping tune which raises the secretion of adrenaline in body. Tune might not appeal to fans and masses, but it cannot be made any more better. Lyrics by Srimani is a sure mention, he has given his best work, if u listen to it u can make out what has Mani done to it. Vocals by Anirudh is like a transformer blasting at 440 volts. He has put his soul into it, but the problem is he struggled a bit to sing whole song like that. He would have given it to some other singer like Shankar Mahadevan or Vijay Prakash, but Anirudh too sounded amazing. At last ...did I like it..no!!..but I loved it!!!

02. Baitikochi Chuste

Singers: Anirudh Ravichander

Lyricist: Srimani

Rating: 5/5

This is the first song released on Nov 7, 2017 on the eve of Trivikram's b'day. As soon as it got released it had a tremendous impact on social media, making it a huge chartbuster. I need'nt talk about the success of the song. This is  a cool romantic-intense solo sung effectively by Anirudh himself. Hits at the first hearing itself & will surely make you loop on it again & again. The tune is kept very simple, neat & cool. Opens with a bass guitar & Anirudh gives his best mellifluous vocals to the song. Then continues the cool melody at its own pace. The interlude led by recorder mixed with flute is sure to make you go bonkers about it & is surely the best part of the song. Every where the instrumentation was simple only with few guitars, keyboards playing all around without making it clumsy. The song is at its best & need not be any better. A different melody with its own style & giving a warm start to the album. Anirudh is such a technocrat that he knew very well that flute as a whole will'nt suit to the song, so he mixed recorder with flute sound & made this song sound stupendous.

Coming to the constituent part of the song- the lyrics, these lyrics of srimani made youth to dance in their hearts. Whole song is filled with crazy romantic phrases narrating exact scenario in the movie. Srimani started narrating the things all around & induced beautiful-youthful romantic phrases to make the song sound amazing. Whole credit goes to him. The phrases "apple pandula aa suruyde aeroplane la naa gunde telinde gaalilo mabbula jarinde nelapai needala mulle guchene sudden ga challa galle villan la" see how excellent is this phrase? next another one "mabbulni kadipi mohamata petti chandrunni testa ga"..!! I bet no person lacking complete knowledge in Telugu understands this. Its because he made it so tricky that if u loop atleast for 2-3 times u cant understand what he has written, otherwise people lacking Telugu knowledge will say that there is no connection b/w any two phrases, but truly speaking the whole first stanza is in complete connection with each & every phrase & no where different nor separate. It has been a long time listening to this type of lyrics nor tune nor vocals. However it really reached every music lover. It made me remember songs of Jalsa- My heart is beating.

03. Swagatam krishna

Singer: Niranjana Ramanan

Lyrics: Oothukkadu Venkata Subbaiyer

Rating: 5/5

This is a cult classic. We know Trivikram is always interested in doing all this type of songs, we heard his 'Deva Devam' in AD, we heard to 'Kopala Gopala' in A..aa and now 'Swagatam Krishna'. This song is written by Tamil poet in 17 B.C, a long way back, thanks to Trivikram for not forgetting our culture and literature.  Dont know where it is placed in movie, but would sound marvelous. Coming to the song, Anirudh nailed the instrumentation and a perfect classic tune. This Anirudh is like a slow poison, at first attempt the songs are boring , at second attempt they are fine and at third time they are amazing, the thing is they all are fresh and perfect in terms of music, dont know whether fans like it or not, but they all are gems. Next upto vocals, Niranjana perfectly screwed the song with her classical vintage but also struggled a bit here and there, I personally feel Chitra is only singer of present generation who could suit to these type of songs perfectly, but otherwise no offence to Niranjana, she completely justified the song. The elevated surgum part with heavy orchestration is a feast for ears. Happy to hear these type of songs in now'a'days. The version of original song of  K.J.Yesudas is very famous, which I wanna mention.

04. Gaali Vaaluga

Singer: Anirudh Ravichander

Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry

Rating: 5/5

Second one is a intense mellifluous solo written effectively by the lead lyricist. When the song is from legendary writer's hand it becomes a sensation even before its release, same happened with this. Its so good to hear  Sirivennela garu after a long gap, & he is surely back with a bang. OMG!! what a lyric sir? take a bow, only he can write this type of lyrics. We can find Telugu nativity written all over the song. I have no phrase to highlight , I have no word to mention from the song, everything rocked in the song. it gave me great excitement listening to this master piece by Sastry garu, thank u sir for a wonderful song!!

Coming to the vocals & music part, it is Anirudh who set the stage into fire & simply rocked it. The beautiful looping of bazz guitars which sets a stage for a perfect romantic number, is a sure mention. The beautiful Thumba or Banjo beats taking over is one more highlight of the song. Keyboards were kept simple & neat. The Dilruba as an interlude took away my soul. All these elements made a perfect romantic track. Next upto vocals, Anirudh aced over it. See how well he has added pomp & color to the song with his mellifluous vocals. His expression in the song made it more beautiful. Which made this song a instant chartbuster. At last many people said this was more like a youthful melody & does'nt suit to powerstar's presence, but what I feel is, nothing can affect his movie, only thing which matters is his screen presence , if he just walks in the whole song also the song is a hit, because its Powerstar on the screen. At last did I like the song? No!! because I simply loved it!!

05. AB Nee Baby Evaro

Singers: Nakash Aziz & Arjun Chandy

Lyrics: Sri Mani

Rating: 5/5

This is a lite hearted HiFi techno melody composed completely in a very different style. The tune has melody in it, party beats in it and everything you want. Moreover it has the best lyrics, Sri Mani completely driven by Trivikram sounds like Sastry garu, if he writes at this pace he can sustain for long in industry. As I already told, these are slow poisons, many portrayed wrong color on this music, even the highly acclaimed critics gave a less rating, but these songs cannot be any better. They are all perfect with rich orchestration, fresh tunes and peppy vocals, we all are expecting something new and Anirudh gave it, so better accept him, he simply nailed it, a perfect debut. Music lovers will surely enjoy these songs. I remembered those slow paced melodies of Manisharma, now this song sounds like that cool melody ,loved it Anirudh. Coming to vocals Nakash & Arjun are perfect but made few errors in lyric here and there(it has become very common now'a'days), it is 'Valpula Jadilo' not 'valapula jahi lo' and it is 'ovaipu' not 'ovepo'. But all can be kept aside for its amazing tune and peppy vocals. The phrase 'ayudha poojale andam tho cheyadam bhavyama' is a sure mention. Singing-Lyrics-Tune everything are in perfect sync and made it a perfect melody. This cannot be any way better.

06. Kodaka Koteshwara Rao

Singer: 'Powerstar' Pawan Kalyan & Chorus

Lyrics: Bhaskarabhatla

Rating: 5/5

This is the last song which got released on 31st night 2017. This is an out & out  situational folk song within all limits. This song which is completely aimed at masses, appeals to family audience even. Song is perfect in all aspects. Anirudh nailed it perfectly, the Tabla as a background score sounded great with mixing of key boards & guitars. Rhythm was set apt to the tune. Next upto the constituent part, this song brought back many good old memories, this song reminded me of old Nagarjuna's song- 'Machilipatnam maya bazar' sung by SPB-Chitra-Swarnalatha. The genre of it was like that, next this song is like a rehash of Pk's song in Panja, just a camparision, but nothing matched with tunes. 

As usual Pk never fails to impress us with his singing, whether it is Thammudu, Khushi, Johnny, Panja, SGS, Ad & now this song stands out. I loved his singing, he is the soul of this song, he just grabbed the opportunity & made it in his own style, his vocals were crystal clear & sounded so soothing. Anirudh used auto tuner at places for his voice, but Pk's voice sounded much great than that auto tuner. His expressions elevated the song. Totally we heard cherubic Pk, he made it more interesting, there are many dialogues in between, which would match with screen presence. Overall a well made song with ample of support from powerstar. And coming to singing, PK is  perfect, he is'nt a professional singer, but never lost his track throughout the song, may be Anirudh composed it like that. That notes of sustain in the beginning is again a powerful vintage, at last Pk has done a great job with his singing.

Then coming to lyrics, Bhaskarbhatla who is known for this type of songs, rocked it as usually with his crazy phrases. Through this we can guess the situation is about teasing a character in movie, with a song & the it is learnt that the shocking backdrop of song is that, people in software office where Pk works tease Raghu Babu in the name of 'KODAKA'. Lets wait & see whether what we heard is right or not. Then if I'am not wrong, I guess the movie makers intellectually had released, only the makeover of the song, but they have hidden the real surprise like that & would reveal it in the movie, because there is a cut between song and many dialogues. But lets wait and watch. At last an out and out mass song in Trivikram' style, a fresh song indeed.

Picks Of The Album: 'ENTIRE ALBUM'...album had everything we expected..1 intense romantic solo, 2 romantic hi-fi melodies, 1 out & out folk or mass song & a powerful intro song with complete freshness.

OVERALL RATING: 10/10

Remarks: Anirudh makes an impressive debut, he proved himself, for all who is trolling this album, I have one thing to say, this album is perfect in terms of music and lyrics and cannot be any better, when we are expecting fresh music, fresh lyrics, Anirudh simply nailed our requirments and demands, so better accept it, then if u cant digest this, then surely we have no right to ask or demand for something new or fresh. For me this album is a treat.

Then coming to movie, it is on 10.01.18 where the result gets revealed. We know what is Trivikram-PK combo is upto, so lets wait and watch the success.