Neeraj Shridhar’s buoyant vocals, rapper Indee’s (surprisingly credited!) bloody catchy hook and Pritam’s overall arrangements make Aai paapi (Tu hai meri soniye) absolutely scintillating. This is one heck of an...
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Ugly Aur Pagli (Hindi, Anu Malik)
Talli is a sad attempt at aping the Pritam sound, while Karle gunah’s Punjabi reggaeton is best left alone to Anu himself. Yeh nazar, with its 80s pop style is...
Continue reading...Mission Istaanbul (Hindi, Assorted composers)
Bob Sinclair’s cult hit, World, Hold on gets an interesting desi-makeover by Shamir Tandon. Debutant Chirantan Bhatt cooks up a catchy, reggaeton-based title track and a spritely Nobody like you...
Continue reading...Sarkar Raj (Hindi, Bapi Tutul)
Ram Gopal Varma’s fetish for spending peanuts on his film’s music continues in Sarkar Raj, with Bapi Tutul playing willing monkeys. There’s a clear Govinda overdose in this soundtrack that...
Continue reading...Haal-e-dil (Hindi, Assorted composers)
Raahat’s version of the title song is better than Rekha Bharadwaj’s, though both have too familiar a Vishal tune. Raghav’s two songs – Rang and Khwahish offer precious little, while...
Continue reading...Love Story 2050 (Hindi, Anu Malik)
With its dose of assembly-line techno phrases, Kay Kay’s Aa gaya hun mein and Kunal’s Sach kehna are reasonably good, even as the moth-balled tune doesn’t gel with the mod...
Continue reading...Aamir (Hindi, Amit Trivedi)
It may be Murtuza-Qadir…the Rahman-touch, I mean! Amit Trivedi’s opening track, Ha raham is absolutely scintillating. Very Rahman’ish in its approach to the sufi tune, the bang-on arrangements and super...
Continue reading...Summer 2007 (Hindi, Gourov Dasgupta)
Baali main sone waali is an interesting techno-Maharastrian folk track that high on catchy rhythms and fab vocals by Sunidhi. I just wanna fly has ambitious arrangements, but a terribly...
Continue reading...Mere Baap Pehle Aap (Hindi, Vidyasagar & Tauseef Akhtar)
Despite the 80s arrangements, and both Udit and Shreya sounding very 80’ish themselves, the melody in Maine hawa ke paron pe is endearing! The title song however just meanders and...
Continue reading...Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (Hindi, Shankar Ehsaan Loy)
Composing trio Shankar Ehsaan Loy seem to have been stuck by the deadly Yash Raj sting where everything is stuck in never land, with little progress. Unlike Tashan, where Vishal...
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