Sound & Arrangement
In the mid-to-late 1990s, mobile phones were transitioning from luxury to necessity. But the user experience was vastly different. Monochrome screens, antennae, and the most defining feature: the polyphonic ringtone.
Films like Thalapathi (1991), Guna (1991), Mahanadi (1994), and Kuruthipunal (1995) produced soundtracks that were lush, melancholic, and structurally complex. But crucially, these songs had .