CHICKEN LITTLE

Soundtrack-Disney; Rs 295

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It, REM’s smash new single from its 2008 album, features on this soundtrack, as do the Cheetah Girls with a version of Shake Your Tail Feather. There’s also the brilliant Diana Ross version of Ain’t No Mountain High Enough. Now that’s very imaginative for a film about a little chicken in small-town America who accidentally stumbles upon an alien plot to invade earth. Have fun!

Poy-e pora, foy-e phel
Lopamudra Mitra
BIG Music; Rs 99

A peppy album about kids, for kids and with kids, this was Lopamudra’s Puja offering this year. It went on to become one of the season’s best-sellers and continues at the top of the charts.

Nursery rhymes like Agadum bagadum find a fresh treatment with new written material and arranger-composer Pratyush Bandyopadhyay chipping in.

Hannah Montana
Soundtrack- Disney; Rs 295

Fourteen year-old Miley Cyrus, who plays Miss Hannah Montana, is the daughter of Nashville star Billy Ray Cyrus. So this album brings forth all the fun from classic country music, pepping it up with some instant hooks and frothy Ashlee Simpson-meets-Hilary Duff vocals from Miley. If that isn’t enough, there are also the pretty boys from The Click Five, doing their thing on The Pop Princess. From second to seventh graders, everyone loves Hannah: and this music is the main reason why. Get hooked!






Nannhe-Munne geet
Vidya Nagi, Vivek Prakash
BIG Music; Rs 99

A collection of loris and nursery rhymes — with a happy mix of children holding a conversation and joining in on every chorus. This will go down well as a bedtime listen. Part of BIG Music’s edutainment venture, the album includes all-time favourites like Koyal kooke ku ku, Rang birangi patang ude and Purab paschim. Nagi’s voice is an additional attraction.

Nursery Rhymes
Preeti Sagar Saregama Kidz; Rs 109

This one’s a bestseller in its genre. It’s a fun way of learning the basic rhymes, not to mention the basics of the Queen’s language. There’s everything in here, from Jack & Jill to Little Miss Muffet to Song of Sixpence to Hickory Dickory Dock. A great compilation.

Kung fu Panda
Soundtrack - Universal; Rs 395

When Jack Black voices Po, a cuddly panda obsessed about being the next kung-fu hero, you know you’ve got a winner on your hands. Throw in Hollywood veterans Hans Zimmer and John Powell as composers and what you get is a gem of a soundtrack. Keeping the Oriental flavour alive in a blockbuster Hollywood animation film, this is a bunch of fun, even after the film runs its course. Our pick: the Carl Douglas classic Kung Fu Fighting, performed by Gnarls Barkley frontman Cee-Lo Green and Black himself.

Happy feet
DVD & soundtrack Saregama; Rs 599

This soundtrack will go down as a classic. It already is, featuring Prince, Pink and The Brand New Heavies on funky cuts and well, surprise of surprises, Brittany Murphy covering the classic Jefferson Airplane tune, Somebody To Love! Chill with the Kiss/Heartbreak Hotel mash-up from Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and feel beautiful with K.D. Lang’s Beatles medley. Few kiddie soundtracks have seen this much demand in recent times. Cool it!