Amit Trivedi’s next. Oops! That must be big. But as I start listening to the album, I get a bit disappointed, because the poply popping Aasmaan ke paar chalo doesn’t sound all that good for the first time, and certainly not that Amit Trivedi’ish (Read Dev.D’ish). But after listening to the song quite a few times, one is bound to bounce on the beats of this number. It’s not a Trive.D song and does take some time to be liked. Some.
Dariya Ubale. Starts. Oops. That sounds like Dev.D. Yes, it’s the same guy. O what a voice.
OK. Enough of Drama. Dariya Ubale is a straight from Dev.D track. Not that fast but quite ‘different’ and likeable. Slow but strong beats with a mad voice. Good job Mr Pinto n Mr Bhattacharya.
Meri Rooh. OMG! Rahman’s man singing for Amit. It must be something. Well, it is something. Naresh Iyer sings the melodious tune of Amit ever so smoothly while Aditi Singh Sharma croons in the background. The tune is good but the arrangement with the soft singing is the key. Good one indeed.
Music hi hai (or music hi haaye) is an conversation based song where a mom n son are talking. Kavita Seth n Kavish Seth imitate the situation lively enough to make the listener feel the situation. Lyrics also deserve credit for that while Amit Trivedi’s music is simple n apt.
The last song of the album is Roshni sung by Shruti Pathak. The song is again a typical Amit Trivedi number where an instrument (saxophone?) accompanies Shruti’s voice. Background settings give you a feel like Paayaliya n the same singer may take you back to the Dev.D song once again. Good one again.
Overall, Admission Open is not huge, and has touches of Dev.D visible in places. But Amit Trivedi has come up with fresh compositions like Music hi hai n Meri Rooh and Dariya Ubale and Roshni sound good even with an old touch. So certainly a good album, likeable and maybe even lovable unless you’re expecting too much.
Tags: Aditi Singh Sharma, Amit Trivedi, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Kavish Seth, Kavita Seth, Music Review, Naresh Iyer, Shon Pinto, Shruti Pathak
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Dude! I was madly in love with Dev D.. Stop comparing his songs to DevD! Also I am having quite a lot of expectations on this one!
@Deepak
Listen to Roshni again. Don’t u hear Payaliya there? It IS quite Dev.D ‘type’.
Of course u don’t have an Emotional Attyachar here, cuz every producer/director isn’t Anurag Kashyap. But Amit Trivedi n Dev.D’s traces are quite clear in places.
I never said Admissions Open is Dev.D. But types and traces are there, u cannot deny that.