Anu Malik’s Lagi lagi has some old world charm, but gets drowned in overindulgent music. His other song, Lafanaa, is item’ish chaos with borrowed rhythms and recycled hooks. Beyond the...
Continue reading...Hindi OST
Guzaarish (Music review), Hindi – Sanjay Leela Bhansali
The title song, with its sparse European sound has a charming tune, but Sau gram zindagi sounds labored, tune and lyrics-wise. Tera zikr is dialog camouflaged as tune and repetitively...
Continue reading...Break Ke Baad (Music review), Hindi – Vishal Shekhar
Adhoore and Ajab lehar are trademark Vishal Shekhar; if the former is catchy and beautifully uptempo, the latter’s orchestration makes all the difference! Prasoon Joshi makes his impact wonderfully in...
Continue reading...Dus Tola (Music review), Hindi – Sandesh Shandilya
Mohit Chauhan sounds quite unlike himself in Aisa hota hai, but does sound good; Sandesh’s catchy, folksy tune helps too! It’s the same folk feel delivered beautifully that works in...
Continue reading...Golmaal 3 (Music review), Hindi – Pritam
Golmaal’s new title song pales in comparison to Vishal Shekhar’s Sean Paul’ish title song that it briefly evokes in the beginning! Apna har din‘s only saving grace is that repetitive...
Continue reading...332 Mumbai To India (Music review), Hindi – Shamir Tandon, Sunil Singh & Band Inferno
Shamir Tandon’s Amchi Mumbai and Unmaad ranjit are ideally blasts from the past; 90s style tracks that seem misplaced this year. Strangely, the latter’s alternate version, sung by Tauseef Akhtar...
Continue reading...Action Replayy (Music review), Hindi – Pritam
Only Pritam’s punchy arrangements stand out in Baki main bhool gayi, but Daler’s Zor ka jhatka works big time as an addictive item song! Chhan ke mohalla and Dhak dhak...
Continue reading...Allah Ke Banday (Music review), Hindi – Assorted composers
Ish Bector’s Kaala jaadu has a naive, folk’ish tune wrapped well in simple, effective orchestration. Kailasa trio – Kailash Kher, Naresh and Paresh’s Kya hawa kya baadal sounds interesting but...
Continue reading...Knock Out (Music review), Hindi – Gourov Dasgupta & Sanjeev Darshan
Gourov’s grungy title song has Vishal Dadlani’s lyrics and vocals – sung with genuine effort, though the composer doesn’t put in much effort and spits a blah tune. Rahat’s Khushnuma,...
Continue reading...Do Dooni Chaar (Music review), Meet Bros & Anjan-Ankit
Lots of nice-sounding things, but nothing stands out, tune-wise. NW1W.
Continue reading...
