Shukran Allah is predictably and genuinely pleasing, particularly, the prominent title phrase rings long after the song is over. Sukhwinder and Kailash Kher have a really harmonious session in Dua,...
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Music review: Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (Hindi – Pritam)
Main tera dhadkan is noise aggravation; Hard Kaur’s Follow me, even more so! The noise quotient carries through to Oh by God and Prem ki naiyya too – pointlessly loaded...
Continue reading...Music review: Jail (Hindi – Sharib-Toshi, Shamir Tandon)
40+ years after Sadhana lost her jhumka, Sonu Kakkar asserts that there’s more to lose in Bareily ke bazaar, in coarse, item-number style, adding infamy to the much-maligned town. Shamir...
Continue reading...Music review: Aladin (Hindi – Vishal-Shekhar)
Tak dhina dhin is Pancham all the way, with a punchy new sound to the boot, much like Bachke O Bachke, which has select portions of its tune in the...
Continue reading...Music review: The Great Indian Butterfly (Hindi – Assorted Artists)
Shibani’s markedly North-Eastern Thodi thodi saanjh is hugely impressive, while her other track, Keh leh dil se exposes her vocal limits and passes muster. Deepak Pandit’s Kangana has a ghazal-like...
Continue reading...Music review: Acid Factory (Hindi – Assorted Artists)
Shamir Tandon’s languorous ambient sound in Yeh jism is pretty neat, while Khatti meethi, by Manasi Scott is an uncomfortable overdose of the Justin Timberlake’sque hip-hop sound! Gourov Dasgupta’s reworking...
Continue reading...Music review: London Dreams (Hindi – Shankar Ehsaan Loy)
Barson yaaron is a full-throated, rock anthem with brilliant pauses (Laakh take da) and a mesmerizing finale invoking Lord Hanuman! The choice of vocals – Vishal Dadlani and Roop Kumar...
Continue reading...Music review: Tum Mile (Hindi – Pritam)
The title song ambitiously has 3 versions – a bouncy, up-tempo variant by Neeraj Shridhar, quite aptly; a reprise by Javed Ali and a rock version by Shafqat Amanat Ali....
Continue reading...Music review: Blue (Hindi – A R Rahman)
Blue sees Rahman offering his massiest sound in quite some time, but – as always – with enough cues that denote his going the extra step, even within the commercial...
Continue reading...Music review: Main Aurr Mrs Khanna (Hindi – Sajid Wajid)
Don’t say alvida is sweet, sappy and very 90s – that Hinglish title is immensely cringe-worthy. Happening, to be entirely fair, has quite a likeable techno-qawali sound…if only it didn’t...
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