The Great Indian Soundtrack by Snehith Kumbla

On RRR's stupendous success in India and abroad, and how M.M. Keeravani needs more applause for it.

Three movie soundtrack songs composed and sung by maverick Hindi movie soundtrack composer Himesh Reshammiya.

Celebrating the Hindi film songs sung by the timeless romantic Krishnakumar Kunnath, known by his stage name KK, who we lost too soon on May 31, 2022. He was only 53.

Recording the arrival of the southwest monsoon in India.

A medley of R.D. Burman songs to celebrate his extraordinary talent.

Featuring R.D. Burman's swan song, the soundtrack that reestablished his reputation as a maverick, genius music director. But R.D. wasn't around to enjoy ots success.

Featuring A.R. Rahman's stunning fusion of western sounds with Indian vocals to produce one of the greatest Indian soundtracks of all time.

On the amazing M.M. Kreem score that surprisingly few are talking about - the brilliant songs and bgm for the exagerrated, over-the-top action entertainer RRR.

Talking about how Michael Giacchino's score elevates Matt Reeves' The Batman (2022).

Revisiting the 2002 Rajkumar Santoshi movie, cowritten with Piyush Mishra, featuring music by A.R. Rahman, starring Ajay Devgn, Sushant Singh and others.

The Will Smith slap to Chris Rock, the implications, reactions.

Celebrating the singing journey of probably one of the greatest Indian playback singers of our time, Shreya Ghoshal. She has been singing for movies for 20 years, and only turned 38 today!

The underrated song of the week is from a movie that lives in its soundtrack that has freaky opening notes, electronic robotic airs, and some superb melodic singing.

On his 101st birth anniversary, celebrating the legendary Hindi film songs of one of the greatest Indian poets and Hindi film lyricists, Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980).

Wishing the masterly vocalist and composer Shankar Mahadevan a grand 55th birthday, here's a selection of songs that dot the Shankar Mahadevan story.

Featuring three Hindi film anti-war songs, mingled with readings from war in literature to make this special episode on the stupidity of war.

An atmospheric A.R. Rahman classic unusual for its vocal choices, especially featuring Malayalam legends M.G.Sreekumar and K.S.Chitra, and how Rahman uses technology to his advantage. Featuring Javed Akhtar as lyricist. A song that certainly deserves more listeners.

Featuring a soulful qawwali sung by the zany, innovative Sonu Nigam, composed by Shailendra Barve, lyrics by Jitendra Joshi. Moving away from qawwali cliches, devoid of heavy chorus, yet full of soul.

Featuring three more songs amd some honourable mentions from the epic journey that the great playback singer Lata Mangeshkar had across seven decades in Indian soundtrack history. Music copyright belongs to the music owners including Saregama, YashRaj Music, Sony Music and others.

Featuring four of Lata Mangeshkar's legendary songs in her epic musical journey from the 1940's to the 21st century. Part 1 of 2, we feature here four of these seven songs from each of her singing decade. Music copyrights belong to the music owners - Saregama and others.

Featuring the best songs of composer, singer, Bappi Lahiri, who passed away today on Feb 16, 2022, at the age of 69, leaving us a legacy of soulful romantic and dance numbers.

A podcast on probably the best horror dram ever made in India, Tumbbad (2018).

In spontaneous memory of my maternal grandmother, Radhamma Adka (1933-2022).

Reading from one of Roald Dahl's most deliciously macabre tales ever, a story that was first published in Playboy, The Visitor.

Reading from the evergreen 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel, with a touch of the supernatural.

On January 7, 2022 what did Pune resident Yogita Satav do to be immortalized as a hero? Know more on The Wednesday Story by Snehith Kumbla.

Reviewing the Kerala State Award winner 2021 for second best movie and best story, the one location setting based drama-comedy, Thingalaycha Nichayam (2021).

The attempted remedy for the dreaded Monday blues, episode one.

On travel songs, the question of why we travel, what is this pull of the outdoors...welcome to The Sunday Chill.

Four Hindi film songs and one Indi-Pop song celebrating money, mocking money, rueing money, and satiring money. Because the whole thing is that...sabse bada rupaiya.

Featuring three rare songs and stories related to listening and discovering A.R. Rahman.

Reading from the long awaited memoir of the great, late intellectual, playwright, actor, writer and director, Girish Karnad (1938-2019)

Celebrating the great Irrfan on his 55th birth anniversary (January 7, 2022).

Soundscapes from my recent travels.

Reviewing the new Anand L. Rai movie starring Dhanush, Sara Ali Khan and Akshay Kumar.

Reading from Ruskin Bond's first book ever, the 1957, award winning The Room on the Roof.

Reviewing the Malayalam superhero Netflix Dec 2021 release, Minnal Murali, starring Tovino Thomas, Guru Somasundaram, Femina George and others.

Reviewing the 2017 neo noir thriller starring Madhavan and Vijay Sethupathi.

Reviewing the Malayalam movie based on the longest fugitive chase of an Indian criminal.

The full review of the three part, in total, eight hour long documentary on how The Beatles worked over 22 days in January 1969, on what finally became their last album release, Let It Be.

Reading from the true life memoirs of a teacher, about how he interacted with his students in London's East End.

Reading from the 1990 travelogue classic by British travel writer Alexander Frater (1937-2020)

Three Hindi film songs from three different decades, featuring the great, contradictory city, Mumbai.

The first episode of the weekly celebration of poetry, idleness, music, movies, delicious food and sensuality.

Book extracts that shed light on how Jim Corbett finally got down to write his wildlife experiences.

A short story about fate, life's experiences, isolation, country, longing for a land, and other timeless human emotions.

Review of the first part of the new Beatles documentary: Get Back,now showing on Disney Hotstar.

Impromptu rain songs for the heck of it. Also includes songs that have nothing to do with rain.