Umrao Jaan is Alka Yagnik’s show all the way. But Anu Malik chooses to tread a safe path by using a time-tested original sound with very little innovation to depict the period in which the remake is being attempted. This doesn’t come out even in terms of orchestration which sticks to the archaic and adds to the overall tedium! Behka diya and Pooch rahe are the only two tracks that redefine the film’s period feel within a more modern sound. While I’ve little to protest about the rest, the clear lack of stretching any imagination is the soundtrack’s biggest undoing.
Keywords: Anu Malik, JP Dutta, Javed Akhtar, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachan, Muzaffar Ali
