Maare re is noisy, but works well as something loud and jolly at the stadium. Urmila Dhangar’s Marathi mix in Mala jau de is wonderfully orchestrated; Pritam chooses his sounds...
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Rowdy Rathore (Music review), Hindi – Sajid-Wajid
Chinta ta ta shamelessly – and without any credit – rips off MM Kreem’s Telugu original from the film’s original, Vikramarkudu. If it sounds catchy, don’t credit Sajid Wajid for...
Continue reading...Shanghai (Music review), Hindi – Vishal-Shekhar
Bharat mata ki jai, with 6 singers, is an enthusiastically raucous package with biting sarcasm in its lyrics, by Dibakar himself. Imported kamariya is not very different tune-wise, but this...
Continue reading...Department (Music review), Hindi – Dharam Sandeep, Bappa Lahiri, Vikram Nagi
Dharam Sandeep sail through Dan dan cheeni shoot mix (!) only because Ram Gopal Varma asks them to use a hook from Ilayaraja’s ‘Aasai nooru vagai’ from the almost 3...
Continue reading...Dangerous Ishhq (Music review), Hindi – Himesh Reshammiya
Original review (April 21, 2012): NW1W. Keywords: Himesh Reshammiya, Karishma Kapoor Revised review (April 22, 2012): Tu hi rab takes time to start and even as that painfully outdated tabla...
Continue reading...Ishaqzaade (Music review), Hindi – Amit Trivedi
Chokra jawan amply demonstrates Vishal Dadlani and Sunidhi’s vocal chemistry – they are electric in this rustic coming-of-age celebration with inventive lyrics; its tune moves to a spectacular band-bajaa sound...
Continue reading...Vicky Donor (Music review), Hindi – Abhishek-Akshay, Rochak Kohli, Ayushmann Khurana and Donn & Bann
Rokda is breezy and easy on the ears with some neat guitar in the background. Kho jaane de is reminiscent of Amit Trivedi and that itself is the song’s success,...
Continue reading...Hate Story (Music review), Hindi – Harshit Saxena
NW1W. Keywords: Vikram Bhatt, Hate Story
Continue reading...Tezz (Music review), Hindi – Sajid-Wajid
Tere bina is wonderful blind-beggar-in-Mumbai-local material; ranks right along Dil deewana na jaane kab kho gaya from Daag The Fire – pedestrian. The title song extends the already overused Misirlou...
Continue reading...Jannat 2 (Music review), Hindi – Pritam
Shafqat and Rahat’s Tu hi mera and Tera deedar hua, respectively, are like songs usually assigned to them – lilting sufi’ish sounds, but not clutter-breaking. KK is extraordinary in the...
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