Housefull’s music is not great. It’s what it is supposed to be – Total Time Pass and Entertaining. Like it, love it, use it, throw it. Well, almost.
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Tags: Alyssa Mendonsa, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Mika, Music Review, Neeraj Shridhar, Ritu Pathak, Shabbir Kumar, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Sunidhi Chauhan, Tarun Sagar, Vivienne Pocha
Shankar Ehsaan Loy are those gems of Hindi film industry who, once given freedom to be creative, create things beyond common man’s imagination. Sunidhi Chauhan and Shabbir Kumar sung I don’t know what to do from Housefull is something like that only.
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Tags: Lyrics, Shabbir Kumar, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Song Review, Sunidhi Chauhan
Frankly, it’s not really a book review. It’s more of a love affair with a book which happens to be my hardly-known-to-me hero’s autobiography.
Biddu was a name that I had read a lot of times, on a lot of tracks that I loved during the Indipop revolution of mid to late ’90s. And so, somehow without even knowing him much, he was a hero for me. At that time, all I knew about Biddu was that he was a guy who didn’t know much Hindi (that was my reason that he didn’t sing himself and didn’t take out his own album) and most probably he lived outside India. That he was a south Indian was my common sense because he didn’t know Hindi.
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Tags: Biddu, book review, Britain, India, music
After waiting for ages, Paathshala is finally coming. But not like an old piece work. In fact the album sounds quite fresh with all the songs sung by Salim Merchant, Vishal Dadlani, Lucky Ali and Kailash Kher. Frankly, composer Hanif Shaikh has done some good work and the album is certainly worth listening to, and many of the songs worth a dance too. No wonder the movie has Shahid Kapoor. Here is a review of the album.
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Tags: Hanif Shaikh, Kailash Kher, Lucky Ali, Music Review, Salim Merchant, Tulsi Kumar, Vishal Dadlani
Lucky Ali is back with a bang. While he is in the process of launching his album Xsuie online, he can be found in Paathshala too, singing Bekaraar in his well known style. The song, Bekaraar, is a good composition of Hanif Sheikh that suits Lucky’s voice well. The lyrics are good and though the song has only one Antara, one almost falls in love with the song listening to it for the first time as Lucky Ali sings in his typical, lovable voice that has such a huge fan following.
If I am sounding incoherent, just stop reading and go listening. Here are the lyrics of Bekaraar.
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Tags: Hanif Shaikh, Lucky Ali, Lyrics, Shahid Kapoor, Song Review
Shankar Ehsaan Loy have become a music factory this year. Before the score of one movie starts fading, they come up with the next. This time it’s Hum tum aur ghost, starring Arshad Warsi and Diya Mirza. With lyrics from Javed Akhtar again. Here is a review.
Dekho Raste mein is a fast, peppy, but nevertheless romantic number that sounds good with KK and Shreya singing wonderfully. Though I feel the song would have sounded better had it been a bit slower. (I have tried the song at 90% and it does sound good) Anyway a lovable song. Go for it.
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Tags: Adnan Sami, Dominique, Javed Akhtar, Music Review, Shaan, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Sunidhi Chauhan, Vishal Dadlani
Movie: Love Sex aur Dhokha
Composer: Sneha Khanwalkar (When was the last time u heard a female composer?), Dibakar Bannerjee for one song.
Lyrics: Mostly by Director Saab, Dibakar again.
Singers: Kailash Kher. With composer singing one song, and Ameya Date n Nihira Joshi singing another.
I think there is enough of curiosity value attached to Love Sex aur Dhokha, the LSD, for a majority of people to listen to the soundtrack as soon as it comes to them. And not without reason.
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Tags: Ameya Date, Dibakar Banerjee, Kailash Kher, Music Review, Nihira Joshi, Sneha Khanwalkar
Whenever Caralisa Monteiro comes to sing for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, there is generally something worth looking for. Kal Tum The Yahan of Hum Tum aur Ghost, sung by Shankar along with Caralisa is no exception. Kal tum the yahaan is a wonderful, slow, and absolutely lovable song on a beautiful melody that you will most probably love the very first time you listen to, provided you pay the song the attention it wants.
The lyrics of the song look good though I have not yet been able to completely understand the exact significance of words. My guess is that the song will be more meaningful and better once we see it in the movie.
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I was not very much willing to review the album after watching a few promos on the TV. But finally decided to go with it as I found a few songs worth trying. So here is a quick review of the album, composed by Praveen Bharadwaj.
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Tags: KK, Music Review, Praveen Bhardwaj, Rikkee, Shaan, Shilpa Rao, Sunidhi Chauhan
The soundtrack of Mittal vs Mittal, India’s first movie based on marital rape, is hardly a thing I was expecting much from, even though I expect something from the movie made on a such a strong topic. But then, the small soundtrack is not as bad as I thought. In fact all three songs of the album are worth a try. The soundtrack of the movie has three songs, two remixes, and a theme piece. The soundtrack also has a song by former Sa Re Ga Ma Pa contestant Mauli Dave. Here is a review of the album.
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Tags: Kailash Kher, Mauli Dave, Music Review, Sonu Kakkar, Sunidhi Chauhan
Raj Kanwar’s Sadiyaan has Adnan Sami as its music director. Now while most of the songs of the song are quite usual, Adnan ropes in a lot of singers in what seems like a try to make it look varied. Many of the song can also be found using Adnan’s trademark Tabla/other instruments with restrains, somewhat like in Bheegi Bheegi raaton mein or most songs of Lucky. The only thing I liked in the compositions of Adnan here is that the tunes are mostly melodious and some of his songs are likable even with his typical style’s strong presence.
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Tags: Adnan Sami, Kunal Ganjawala, Mika, Music Review, Raja Hasan, Rekha Bharadwaj, Richa Sharma, Sabri Brothers, Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan
So after Rahman, Sajid-Wajid and even Dabboo Malik, Adnan Sami comes up with a tune he thinks deserves the voice of Rekha Bharadwaj and gives her an eight minute and forty seconds long Sadiyaan ve, credited as Waqt ne jo beej boya, on the cover of the album, Sadiyaan.
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Tags: Adnan Sami, Lyrics, Rekha Bharadwaj, Song Review
When I heard it for the first time, I found myself wondering where I had heard the tune. But since the tune was so groovy and techno, I got no clue and kept enjoying the song as long as it was on. Only when the media player was turned off and I was humming the tune, it striked back. It was something as old as a V Shantaram movie. Yes, Meri banno hoshiyaar is quite a lift from the song Saiyyan jhoothon ka bada sartaj nikla of Do Aankhen Barah Hath as the first line goes the same in entirety. Still, the song has differences and the orchestration and mixing give a feel of a folk song on a hi-fi system, somewhat like Genda Phool. Ila Arun seems like the perfect choice for singer. And then, there is telugu counting okkati, rendu, moolgu, naalgu going in background too that sounds interesting.
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Tags: Ila Arun, Lyrics, Song Review
It was a bit strange Friday as neither of the two movies I saw today had a strong storyline even though both had strong actors. While Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge was expected to be so, Road, movie was a not-so-pleasant surprise as time and truck kept moving but not the story. Here is my review, or reviews as you may call it, of the two movies, in the order I saw them. So Atithi comes first.
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Tags: Abhay Deol, Ajay Devgn, Konkona Sen Sharma, movie review, Paresh Rawal
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