Hindi Film Music - Reviews
Hindi Film Music - Reviews
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Kisaan
Daboo Malik (Anu Malik's younger brother) still keeps making occasional appearances as a composer just to painfully remind us why he was relegated to sidelines in double quick time! Despite having many top singers at his disposal, the younger Malik... |
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Love Ho Jaaye
T-series' late supremo Gulshan Kumar's daughter Tulsi Kumar has been around in Bollywood music since last two years, mostly as Himesh Reshammiya's singing partner. Now she comes up with her first Indipop album and makes a good impression. She has ... |
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Love Ho Jaaye
T-series' late supremo Gulshan Kumar's daughter Tulsi Kumar has been around in Bollywood music since last two years, mostly as Himesh Reshammiya's singing partner. Now she comes up with her first Indipop album and makes a good impression. She has ... |
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Lottery
Santhokh Singh has composed a few good romantic tracks in Lottery but they are most likely to go unnoticed thanks to the film sinking badly at the box-office. Definitely the main attraction of this album is Abhijeet Sawant. From a middle class simple... |
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Sikandar
This album featuring compositions from Shankar-Ehsan-Loy, Sandesh Shandilya and Uday- Justin, presents a few interesting off- beat songs. Dhoop Ke Sikke (Shankar Mahadevan- Anusha Mani) is a superb soft rock-number, blessed with Prasoon Joshi’... |
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Gulaal
Piyush Mishra, essaying the triple role of lyricist- composer- singer, creates a distinctive and memorable soundtrack for Anurag Kashyap’s political drama set in Rajasthan.... |
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Tu Hi Mere Rab Ki Tarah Hai
Drawing inspiration from his rich musical lineage, composer-singer Mithoon Sharma burst onto Bollywood scene in 2006. His music in Anwar, Train, Bas Ek Pal and Aggar was hailed for its refreshingly melodious yet coolly contemporary approach. Carrying... |
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Luck By Chance
In Luck By Chance, the talented trio of Shankar- Ehsan-Loy have composed some striking melodies and Javed Akhtar has ably complemented them with his poetic lyrics. The album is definitely one of the best amongst 2009 releases so far.... |
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13 B
For a movie that is supposed to be a sci-fi horror flick, 13 B features surprisingly soothing and melodious music. Shankar- Ehsan- Loy have composed some nice songs that linger in memory for quite some time.... |
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Chal Chala Chal
If this movie was forgettable, then the music is no better, perhaps is even worse! Composers like Anu Malik, Anand Raj Anand and Sunil Jha come up with utterly insipid and mediocre tunes. Even presence of seasoned singers cannot save these compositio... |
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Delhi 6
Rahman does it again! The man currently seems to be at the peak of his musical powers as he composes yet another memorable soundtrack showing his full range as a composer, arranger and programmer.... |
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Raaz, The Mystery Continues
The second installment of Raaz has been panned by the critics as ‘Horror of horrors’ but if there is one redeemable feature about this movie, then, it is its music. No, not the unimaginative background score but rather its varied songs. ... |
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Slumdog Millionaire
First the Golden Globe, now in line for the Oscar. Will A.R.Rahman never cease to amaze us with his dizzying ascent in the world of music- or should I say World Music? Well, if you look at his 15 year-old career, Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack ranks ... |
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Dev D
Composer-singer Amit Trivedi had made his presence felt with some unusual and striking songs in Aamir and in Dev D he raises the bar even higher. Dev D is said to be Anurag Kashyap’s modern take on Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s famous cl... |
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Billu Barber
In the past films like Garam Masala and Bhool Bhulaiya, composer Pritam has collaborated well with director Priyadarshan and the same team comes together again for Shahrukh Khan-produced comedy Billu Barber. The CD features as many as 15 songs but ac... |
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Chandni Chowk To China
This Warner Brothers’ Akshay Kumar- comedy is 2009’s first big release and the Hollywood company has left no stone unturned in making its music. No fewer than eight composers (two trios- Shankar-Ehsan-Loy and Kailash-Naresh-Paresh and t... |
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Dasvidaniya
Popular singer-composer-lyricist Kailash Kher teams up with his composing partners-Paresh and Naresh to create some memorable songs for this non-mainstream film. Sonu Nigam starts off the album with Aawara Raahi Gumshuda- a stylishly fluffy song urgi... |
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Heroes
Monty Sharma and Sajid-Wajid compose a soundtrack dishing out mostly uninspiring clichéd situational fares like Badmash Launda- a UP-Bihar folk-styled item song, Makhna- a Bhangra-dance-track, Mannata- a romantic number with a Punjabi touch and Wh... |
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Ghajini
An Aamir Khan-movie is an event in itself and when A.R. Rahman steps in there as the composer, it becomes even more significant! In the past this peerless actor-composer association has given us some memorable albums like Lagaan, Mangal Pandey and Ra... |
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Dev Anand - The Man, The Music
'‘Romancing with life’- the title of Dev Anand’s autobiography, aptly summed up the way in which the superstar lived his life. He lived it on his own terms and lived it to the fullest. With his demise, Indian cinema has lost its ... |
