Film: Swami

Director: Ganesh Acharya

Music: Nitin Arora and Sony Chandy

Lyrics: Sameer

Rating: 4/5

Ganesh Acharya has been in the industry for over ten years; has choreographed songs for films like Rang De Basanti, Golmaal, Aitraaz and Khakee amongst others. However with Swami, it is for the first time he will be seen holding the director's baton. While a majority of the tracks are instrumental, a few songs that have vocals have been rendered by Hariharan and Chitra.

The album begins with an instrumental track called Shubarambh, which is also the theme track for the film. This two minute track is soothing and the flute, veena and various percussion instruments create what is clearly a poignant and thoroughly enchanting track.

Swami, which is the second track in the album, begins with the sound of a flute that soon flows into Chitra reciting the 'venkatesa subrabhatam', and soon enough the music begins to build up, followed by Hariharan and Chitra crooning the rest of the track. This piece sounds like a devotional number and the singers in harmony render the second soothing of the album.

Without a moment to waste, Chitra and Hariharan begin singing Naa tin Dhinna. As the title suggests, all they do is recite those words, yet they do it melodiously and in a manner never heard before. The children in the chorus sound incredible in the last ten odd seconds of the track. This is the ideal track to be playing while jumping into puddles during the rain.

Mumbai Jaayenge is a dreamy number and forty seconds into the track you end up hearing a faint voice of Manoj Bajpai rendering a few dialogues. This track is calming but that's about it, the instrumental magic that seemed continuous is broken with this track.

Gullak, yet another instrumental number, is extremely elemental. You are left enjoying the slow rise in the music interrupted by...