Here comes another poll. This one should not be very difficult for you. There have been a number of music directors with a number of movie albums this year. You have to select who is the music composer of the year according to you. I have given the names of their composed albums in front [...]
Raat Gayi Baat Gayi is a Saurabh Shukla directed, award winning movie from Pritish Nandy Communications, going to release on 31st December. So here is the music review for the last movie of 2009. Music and lyrics, and most of the singing, by Ankur Tewari.
Composers have been singing their compositions from time immemorial. Be it a legendary SD Burman singing wahan kaun hai tera musafir in Guide or a rock-popping Anu Malik trying Ek Garam Chai ki Pyali ho, composers have always found their share of singing, especially when they compose single. But for past some years, the trend [...]
Short and Sweet. These are the first two words I’d like to say about the the music of Pyaar Impossible. Salim Sulaiman have just five songs and two remixes in their new album Pyaar Impossible, out of which Alisha and 10 on 10 are already out and quite liked too. Other songs of the album [...]
Amit Kumar is on a roll nowadays. While Chance Pe Dance has a little sweet rap by Amit, Shahrukh’s Dulha Mil Gaya has a wonderful new age Qawwali called Dilrubaon ke Jalwe sung by him. The video has SRK dancing on the floor, something that doesn’t go with him always, but the song is anyways [...]
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Ken Ghosh becomes music director from director. Adds Sandip Shirodkar. Calls up Amit Kumar. Amitabh Bhattacharya is asked to write some lyrics. And then we get one small 1.57 minute song. Certainly Ken knows the importance of the small rap-dance number. Though I still doubt if the voice is of THE Amit Kumar, I think [...]
I doubt if Jatin or Lalit alone will be able to reach the level of Jatin-Lalit. But they are trying. And here is one of those tries. Lalit Pandit composes for Shahrukh Khan-Sushmita Sen starrer, Mudassar Aziz’s Dulha Mil Gaya, which turns out to be a good album with a mixture of old and new [...]
It’s different. It’s all about dance and you’ll get to know that when you get to hear the songs. Composer Adnan Sami, who composes all the songs of the movie except ‘Just Do it’, has tried to make the songs catchy and energetic but hasn’t been very successful in making things all good. In some [...]
Warning: Rocket Singh Salesman of the Year is NOT Chak De India. Rocket Singh is not a typical Yash Raj product. It’s real time, not larger than life, and it has small people. The way Rocket Singh says in the advertisement, 37 percent, with grace marks. So do not expect a Shahrukh Khan who spreads [...]
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First things first. Mann chandre is one the very best songs of Rahman. Or at least that is what I personally felt. I don’t understand Punjabi very thoroughly but courtesy Yash Chopra, i know quite a few words of the language and that helped me a lot in understanding the song, as it’s completely in [...]
ye zameen ye aasmaan ye zameen ye aasmaan hamara kal, hamara aaj buland bharat ki buland tasveer, hamara bajaj… This advertisement had stopped being there on television years ago. But then, there were new versions and new scooters and memories of old TV that kept hamara bajaj alive. And now, it’s finally going to be [...]
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Gems are generally found in the deepest places, and so you miss them. Devika Chawla is probably such a gem. At least some of her songs are. Devika’s second album Saari Raat consists of some touching songs. Barkha Bahar aaye to start with. The album is called Sufi but I’d say it’s more a fusion [...]
Today I was in an experiment mode. So I just went in and started Googling for my own Twitter updates on the Google real time search. And when I was putting up the results on Twitter, I got to know that many don’t know how the Real Time Search of Google works. So I’m giving [...]
Ask me about the three most awaited movies for the next 3 months and you won’t find a Khan in them. They will belong to Ranbir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan and Naseeruddin Shah, with Arshad Warsi. Either you’d be shocked by that, or you would have guessed the movies I am talking about. Well, for now, [...]
It would be nice. A middle-class family might think it would be nice to have an in-ground swimming pool. A millionaire might think it would be nice to have a yacht. The billionaire, a private jet. Someone, somewhere might think it would be nice to have food to feed her family tonight. Someone, somewhere might [...]
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