Arko Pravo Mukherjee’s recreation of Laxmikant Pyarelal’s Dayavaan number, Aaj phir tumpe is pretty good, though much credit is due to the original’s tune, besides Arijit and Samira Koppikar’s vocals....
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Ek Villain (Music review), Hindi – Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon, Rabbi Ahmed & Adnan Dhool
Ankit Tiwari’s very Pritam-style Galliyan is gorgeously mounted; his singing, the guitar and flute, lovelorn lyrics… all come together wonderfully! The film’s leading lady Shraddha Kapoor is surprisingly good despite...
Continue reading...Samrat & Co. (Music review), Hindi – Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon & Gopal, Anand, Pawan
Tequila wakila is a competently foot-tapping rehash of the typical Enrique/Ricky Martin sound, with great vocals by Shreya and Ankit. Ankit’s other composition, Sawaalon mein soars with its intriguing, sweeping...
Continue reading...Yaariyaan (Music review), Hindi – Pritam, Mithoon, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Arko Pravo Mukherjee & Anupam Amod
Mithoon overdoes his soaked-in-pathos sound in Baarish and Mujhe ishq se, both involving a searing ‘Yeeeeeeaaaaaareeeeyaaaaan’. The former works, in Aashiqui 2 mode, while the latter has Tulsi Kumar… ’nuff...
Continue reading...Aashiqui 2 (Music review), Hindi – Jeet Ganguly, Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari
Mithoon’s contribution, Tum hi ho is absolutely beautiful – Arijit’s solo, the duet with Palak Muchhal and the theme. Ankit Tiwari’s Sunn raha hai too is wonderfully impactful, with superb...
Continue reading...3G (Music review), Hindi – Mithoon & Amar Mohile
Despite its Pritam’ish chorus, Kaise bataaon is lovely, with the dependable KK and an adept singing debut by Sonal Chauhan! Its Cantabile version is perfectly a-capella’ish, aided by Abhishek Nailwal’s...
Continue reading...Jism 2 (Music review), Hindi – Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Mithoon, Rushk & Abdul Baasith Saeed
Despite its questionable origins, Ye jism makes for an engaging listen; it is too Bhatt’ish for comfort, however. Arko’s other two songs work considerably better – Ali Azmat carries Maula‘s...
Continue reading...Murder 2 (Music review), Hindi – Harshit Saxena, Mithoon, Sangeet Haldipur and Siddharth Haldipur
Hale dil by Harshit Saxena seems like a good enough tune complete with a Pritam-styled humming phrase, but that incongruent rhythm and Harshit’s own vocals jar. Its acoustic version fares...
Continue reading...Lamhaa (Music review), Hindi – Mithoon
Madno is archetypal Mithoon – Kshitij and Chinmayi infuse life into the predictably soulful tune, while Mika is an unlikely choice for the other version, Saajnaa; he does sound good!...
Continue reading...Milliblog’s most promising, recent new musical talents
There’s hardly any doubt that I look forward to most of the mainstream composers’ new work – Rahman, Vishal Shekhar, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Yuvan, Ilayaraja, Pritam, Devi Sri Prasad, Mano...
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