Out of the four tracks, the soundtrack sees the composers bestowing three on Atif Aslam – Aa bhi ja has him soaring with his vocals in his characteristic style; Dil...
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Murder 3 (Music review), Hindi – Pritam & Roxen/Mustafa Zahid
Roxen’s Mustafa Zahid offers an extended version of the band’s own acoustic hit, Kaisay jiyein, in Hum jee lenge – largely predictable and staid Pakistani pop. Of the three songs...
Continue reading...Kai Po Che (Music review), Hindi – Amit Trivedi
Swanand Kirkire’s wonderful imagination powers Manjha, while Amit sings it with his usual panache. Additional plus is the absolutely gorgeous use of Esraj, a peculiar choice given its East Indian...
Continue reading...Zilla Ghaziabad (Music review), Hindi – Amjad Nadeem & Bappa Lahiri
The title song by Sukhwinder Singh carries a whiff of Omkara’s title song, but is markedly more simplistic and masala’ish. Baap ka maal doesn’t deserve any comment whatsoever. Ditto –...
Continue reading...ABCD Any Body Can Dance (Music review), Hindi – Sachin Jigar
Shambu sutaya must be most frenetically paced Ganesh bhajan ever, with a detour in sound for the sake of dance that is mighty pulsating! Shankar Mahadevan and Vishal Dadlani ace...
Continue reading...Race 2 (Music review), Hindi – Pritam
Party On My Mind and Lat lag layee are mighty competent techno tracks that hit all the right buttons with the tune and the rhythm; the latter, in particular, is...
Continue reading...Special 26 (Music review), Hindi – M.M.Kreem & Himesh Reshammiya
Tujh sang lagee‘s faux-qawali sound is familiar, but likeable. Keerthi Sagathia’s Mujh mein tu holds a gorgeous tune, wonderfully sung, with guitar and violins perfectly laid in the background. Kreem’s...
Continue reading...David (Music review), Tamil – Prasanth Pillai, Bramfatura, Remo Fernandes, Anirudh Ravichander, Maatibaani & Modern Mafia
Bramfatura’s Vaazhkaiye is entirely within their characteristic moody electronica sound, with Siddharth Basrur doing a wonderful job with the vocals. Maria pitache is yet another Remo template – catchy, albeit...
Continue reading...Akaash Vani (Music review), Hindi – Hitesh Sonik
Sunidhi sounds completely out of sorts alongside KK in Pad gaye ji – the tune itself sounds like that of an 80s college band’s debut! Crazy Lover‘s lyrics are crazy...
Continue reading...Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Bhardwaj
The title song is brisk and builds its energy gradually and surely, while Khamaka builds into a gorgeously pleasant melody, complete with an African chorus, but with middling vocals by...
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