Dhoka and the title track definitely carry a distinct appeal, taking off from the trio’s sound in Don. Johnny breakbeat rocks big time, as a funky, retro mix, but the 3 genre recreation, Bhule bisre (Nayyar + Bolly-swing + Burman’ish) aims too far and ends nowhere. Move your body sounds like an uninspired take on the trio’s own, better score in JBJ. Revenge of the 70s is marginally interesting for the Kalyanji Anandji sound. Johnny Gaddar is an overdose of the so-called retro-sound, that it so joyously aims to celebrate, but ends up with limited personality on its own.
Keywords: Neil Mukesh, Zakir Hussain, Dharmendra, Rimi Sen, Vinay Pathak
PS: Thanks to ‘ursmusically’ Suresh, I dug deeper into this soundtrack’s CD sleeve and found that Shankar Ehsaan Loy really do not deserve title credits as composers since they’ve done ONLY 3 complete tracks (not adding the vernacular variants of 2 of those!). Daniel B. George has, to his credit, 5 tracks in this soundtrack, followed by 2 for DJ Shane and one for Gulraj Singh. Here’s the complete track list with the composer’s name against each! This is amazingly well ‘designed’ in the album sleeve!
01. Johnny Gaddaar – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
02. Move your body – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
03. Dhoka – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
04. Johnny in the house – DJ Shane
05. Move your body (Phatt Mix) – DJ Shane
06. Johnny breakbeat mear naam – Gulraj Singh
07. Revenge of the 70s (Instrumental) – Daniel B. George
08. The caper begins (Instrumental) – Daniel B. George
09. Toss (Instrumental) – Daniel B. George
10. Confidence (Instrumental) – Daniel B. George
11. Bhule bisre geet – Daniel B. George
12. Johnny Gaddaar (Tamil) – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
13. Move your body (Tamil) – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
14. Johnny Gaddaar (Telugu) – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
15. Move your body (Telugu) – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
