Tanishk does a good job of recreating Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s ! He weaves Nusrat’s voice over Rahat’s and keeps the backgrounds graceful. An abominable Tulsi Kumar version and an...
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Junooniyat (Music review), Hindi – Meet Bros Anjjan, Jeet Ganguly and Ankit Tiwari
Neeraj Shridhar offers a minor ray of hope for the stock dance tune in Nachange saari raat, while Meet Bros Anjjan dust their stock library once more for the title...
Continue reading...Baaghi (Music review), Hindi – Meet Bros, Ankit Tiwari, Amaal Mallik and Manj Musik
Ankit Tiwari channels his inner Coldplay in Agar tu hota, singing it competently. Amaal Mallik’s Sab tera has a familiar melody that does check-box style Bollywood pleasantness; Shraddha’s vocals are...
Continue reading...Rocky Handsome (Music review), Hindi – Sunny Bawra, Inder Bawra, Bombay Rockers and Ankit Tiwari
Bombay Rockers’ 2003 chartbuster Rock Tha Party continues to sound fresh and catchy. Ankit Tiwari composes and wails through the rock-tinged Alfazon ki tarah where the music props the predictable...
Continue reading...Airlift (Music review), Hindi – Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari
Soch na sake, with its gentle lilt and Arijit Singh’s vocals, is pleasant to the point of being soporific before Tulsi Kumar wakes you up with her dependably bad singing....
Continue reading...Wazir (Music review), Hindi – Shantanu Moitra, Ankit Tiwari, Prashant Pillai, Advaita, Gaurav Godkhindi
Shantanu Moitra’s Maula is standard-issue filmy qawali with only Javed Ali’s singing holding it together. Shantanu’s other song, Tere bin is saccharine-sweet; the tune’s old-world charm, plus Sonu Nigam and...
Continue reading...Mr.X (Music review), Hindi – Ankit Tiwari & Jeet Ganguli
To ju hain sees Ankit churning his standard template to the hilt. Where Ankit really scores is in his other two – Shukrana starts off meanderingly, but soon a pumping...
Continue reading...Roy (Music review), Hindi – Amaal Malik, Ankit Tiwari & Meet Bros Anjjan
Amaal Malik’s Sooraj dooba hain is a mighty enthusiastic techno dance number with lively vocals of Aditi and Arijit. Meet Bros Anjjan’s Chittiyaan kalaiyaan, the desi dance number is easy...
Continue reading...Khamoshiyan (Music review), Hindi – Jeet Ganguli, Ankit Tiwari, Bobby Imran & Naved Zafar
The title song and Baatein ye kabhi na are vintage Jeet – wonderfully mellifluous and easily likeable, thanks also to Arijit’s vocals. Palak is darn good in the latter’s other...
Continue reading...Alone (Music review), Hindi – Jeet Ganguli, Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon, Dr.Zeus & Raghav Sachar
Ankit Tiwari plays with Katra katra‘s backgrounds impressively, and nails the endearing tune as well, besides singing it really well, along with Prakriti Kakar. Mithoon’s Awaara has a tune that...
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