With Aadesh’s so-enthusiastic music, Ladd baapu is excruciatingly long with its five and a quarter minutes, even though the lyrics are not bad. The song is a bit noisy but maybe some good publicity and a good video can make it likable. As of now, strictly okay. Khel Khel mein, again sung by Aadesh and [...]
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Akshay Kumar gets RDB to compose for his home production Speedy Singh, earlier titled Breakaway. Definitely, the album has all Punjabi songs, all dance numbers at that, but the albums still sounds good, if you’re one for the type. Here is a review. The album starts with ni aaja ve sung by Veronica with H-Dhami. [...]
I am not really into Bengali music and understand the language very little, but recently when I was going through the Ovi website, I saw this album called ‘System’ that attracted me a bit and I downloaded Hente Chenashona Rastay, Papon’s version. And the sound so impressed me I downloaded the entire album. So you [...]
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The album starts with Sajid-Wajid-Hard kaur sung Chandni Chowk se or Dekh Tamashe, which is pretty banal with Hard Kaur’s typical rap followed by a song just full-of-beats and so many instruments as I have heard them a lot. The next, Ishqan da Ishqan da has Sonu Nigam and Shweta Pandit singing. This one has [...]
Continue reading about Chatur Singh Two Star: Music Review (Sajid-Wajid)
The small album of total five tracks starts with Aaj Chalein hum, sung by Shaan and Pamela Jain. Somehow I did not have much expectations from the song and as the song unfolded, it came true. Though the lyrics are fine, the arrangements are banal and tune is not too great. Passable. The next song, [...]
Continue reading about Music Review: Chitkabrey – Shades of Grey (Akshay Bafila)
13 tracks. 6 original songs. 11 singers. With some singing more than one song and some songs getting different singers for different versions. In short, Pritam does his best to create a full mix and match combination, and the results seem pretty good. There we go with a review. Rabba main to mar gaya oye. [...]
Sohail Sen for the first time gets something worthwhile outside Ashutosh Gowariker’s camp, and he looks keen on making it big. Here is a review of his entry into YRF, Mere Brother ki Dulhan. The album starts with the title song Mere Brother ki Dulhan, a fast paced, quickly addictive, likable number with some interesting [...]
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Welcome to Soundtrack. That’s something Atomizer says. Not a great track, but I put the theme on loop and didn’t get bored for quite some time as it just kept going in the background. Repeatedly, giving me some typical Midival Punditz-Karsh Kale music. The next, Banao banao by Papon is already one of his famous [...]
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Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande starts with Siddharth-Suhas composed Naina wali whiskey dul dul jave, sung by Shahid Malliya. The song, though nothing new in it, can be quite addictive if given a little time. A typical Punjabi dance number. The next song, Desi Jat Posse, sung by Mahi with Suhas, is again a typical Punjabi [...]
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Abhishek Ray’s composition for the words chaand taare jeb mein hain is well sung by KK and makes a nice listen. The next, Shreya’s Chini bhini, again composed by Abhishek, has lyrics bubbling with enthusiasm and Shreya is kind of surprising in this one as she sings the song in a little intoxicated voice. The [...]
Continue reading about I am Kalam: Music Review (Abhishek, Madhuparna, Papon, Shivji, Susmit)
Bubblegum starts with the title song, Bubblegum, sung by Salim Merchant. The peppy-poppy song sounds okay and may work well as a background number. The next number, Holika, is a Holi song sung by Kailash Kher, with very typical-traditional dholak based song with Indian style rap in between, something that reminds me of Raghubeer Yadav [...]
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The album starts with Sharib singing Yaadein, a song that goes in the typical Bhatt style, but with slight deviations from track, making it a little different, in a good way. Though the touches of Jashnn are there in the song, it does sound pretty good. The second song, Satrangi Sathiya, sung by Toshi is [...]
Continue reading about Phhir: Music Review (Sharib-Toshi, Raghav Sachar)
In Bodyguard title song, Salman tries to get a Dhinka chika done by Himesh and of course, success doesn’t come, not properly at least. But then the song can do well as a ‘title’ song, making a good background for the movie, and trailers. Mika’s Desi beat is a nice try at a dance number, [...]
Continue reading about Bodyguard: Music Review (Himesh Reshammiya, Pritam)
The album starts with Shaan’s feel-like-’90s Kya kare dil bechara. The song has an okay melody and doesn’t sound really good, but doesn’t sound bad either. An okay one, reminding me of Anu Malik days of the ’90s. The next song, that is the title track, is very Nadeem-Shravan’ish in its arrangements and is sung [...]
Continue reading about U R My Jaan: Music Review (Sanjeev Darshan)
After a long time, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy look in their full color. No, I won’t say ZNMD was bad, but somehow it was patterned, without much ‘new’ really. But they are back again with Aarakshan, with their old mate Prasoon Joshi, this time not just writing but also composing a number, which surprisingly, almost beats SEL’s compositions. [...]
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