I was expecting a Dhaani or even a Duur, but what I got was a bland, uninspiring album in Koi Aanay Wala Hai! The title track, Sonay do and Humsafar...
Continue reading...Top 10+ recent picks! (April & May 2008)
Kanday utay: Charkha (Pakipop), Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Excellent rendition of a lovely melody. Rahat’s voice blends beautifully with the tune. My favorite track in Charkha. Bandya & Khuda ke...
Continue reading...Taran’s digs on Naachgaana, hastey hastey!
Taran Adarsh’s review of the film, Hastey hastey takes his personal animosity towards Naachgaana founder Rohit Karan Batra to new heights when he writes in the second sentence of his...
Continue reading...Babul Supriyo (Hindi, Assorted composers)
Sunoh’s ballad’ish tune is charming – Kkunal Sam’s arrangements are easy on the ears. Tu aa bhi ja – credited to Take That’s Beautiful World track, Patience – is uneven...
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...Ankith, Pallavi & Friends (Telugu, Vinu Thomas)
With effervescent arrangements and a simple, lovely tune, Premani impresses instantly. The friendship song, Dost, goes one level up – bubbly, catchy and excellent orchestration conjured by the debutant composer....
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...
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