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The title track is uber cool and before long you’re humming it non-stop as Anushka sounds hep! The prominent hook really hooks you. Your eyes go wide and jaws drop as Aage peeche starts! Whoa…that 50s retro feel is groovy dudes! Sneha Pant does a fab job of Noorjahanizing her voice! Javed Ali has a winner in Rehja Re. His vocals accentuate what is already a predictable, but catchy Punju-ditty with neat arrangements. Mast malang, albeit racy, is a step below the other super tracks, though! Sorta assembly line! Vishal Shekar serve up an ace with this super-chilled out soundtrack!

Keywords: Vishal Shekar, Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Rimmi Sen

Mugilae and Pooncholai are reminiscent of Rahman’s melodies, complete with carnatic, alternately-pitched-choruses et all as interludes. The tracks do manage to excite you since they blend in melody and a mod orchestration well. And, Mugilae gains significantly from Srinivas’ vocals. Joshua returns to his familiar turf in Thottaal. Racy…and barely able to grasp the words. Catchy though! The Kashmiri song in Tamil (!) is outdated and seems straight out of an Abavaanan-Manoj Gyan combination invoking images of Vijaykant! And that ‘Bit Song’ ends before it starts. With 3 good tracks, Joshua actually does a decent job given the non-musical theme!

Keywords: Joshua Sridhar, Jeeva, Gopika, Mohanlal

Pyaar Karke is one hip track that has you grooving immediately…Labh Jajua and rapsters Bob & Suzy completely rock! Dil tod ke na’s arrangements are mighty hip too while the qawali’sh tune and vocals - both Rakesh Pandit’s and the more racy Mika-Smooch-Singh’s, sound fantastic! Alisha’s version of the flashy, hip-hop’ish Bad Boy is better than Sophie & Earl’s version. Zubin get another ace from Pritam, in Jaane Kya…the track is simply delightful! But, Kunal’s rendition of Julio Iglesias’ classic ‘A mi manera’ in Is this love is rather predictable. Pritam continues his dream run with a very cool soundtrack!

Keywords: Rahul Bose, Mallika Sherawat, Preetam

Viju Shah is in his usual form in the techno-mellow title song. Neat track with Kunal and Sunidhi doing a great job! Ek baar jaana is an elaborate techno-folk that is catchy ‘cos of its repetitive words and rhythm. Out of the other filler tracks that Times Music shoves on us, only Sowmya Raoh’s Pyaar Hai (with music by Tauseef Akhtar) and Om’s Man Ke impress due to some excellent orchestration and tunes. Naseeruddin Shah is clearly not interested in using songs as a narrative device. How else do you explain just 2 original tracks? Futile effort from Times Music!

Keywords: Jimmy Shergill, Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ayesha Takia, Paresh Rawal, Boman Irani, Naseeruddin Shah

Devi Sri Prasad tries his luck in Tamil again, but with strong Andhra flavor since the soundtrack largely reuses the Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana’s tunes. Un Paarvayil and Pooparikka are the picks of the album, with good arrangements and hummable tunes. Aagaayam and Kozhi Veda Kozhi reek too much of Telugu and fall flat. Jassie Gift’s Kiliye is quite rhythmic, besides sounding more like a Bharadwaj composition. The retro-styled medley’ish title song may look better on screen as it did in the original! Devi needs to think of something original than rehashing his tunes, if he’s looking for a longer Tamil innings.

Keywords: Prabhu Deva, Jeyam Ravi, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, SSUE

That the film is an unabashed copy of the Tom Cruise starrer Collateral is a sure sign of skeletons tumbling out of the songs too, what with Bhatt’s reputation of being unapologetic plagiarist and Arabic and Spanish words thrown in….! Well, Hibbaki has a great groove while Alisha manages the raunchy Abhi toh mein with panache. Sunidhi doesn’t, however, in Yaar piya. O sanam and Teri yaadon have that Anu Malik flavor and work at some level. Despite a reasonably good soundtrack, it’s unlikely that Sajid Wajid may get mainstream with this one! Cursed to be sidelined, for life huh?

Keywords: Emraan Hashmi, Irfan Khan, Tom Cruise, Collateral, Nisha Kothari, Mahesh Bhatt

The title song is awesome, with fab vocals & very imaginative orchestration. Ishq ne and Aawan akhiyan are both rhythmic & catchy…impress instantly! Despite the Himesh overdose, Love you unconditionally’s infectious rhythm and the sufi-feel of Allah Kare stay on your mind. KK takes on from Himesh in Tanha tere bagair and Himesh the composer scores again! The soundtrack wobbles at its own weight with Tum jo mile, despite Kunal putting his best vocal chord forward while Dil nayyo is uninspiring. But Himesh sure seems to have matured from being a one-hit-per-album wonder! Certainly the best among his recent works!

Keywords: Himesh Reshammiya, Abhay Deol, Soha Ali Khan

SEL give into the Johar school of music for the melodious title song while maintaining some of their sounds. Shafqat is the star of Mitwa, but the percussion is getting rather repetitive! Though not similar tune-wise, Where’s the party and Rock n Roll Soniye seem to be modeled along Its the time to disco and Pretty Woman, respectively with similar voices, bhangra sound and 80s’ish hooks. Tumhi Dekho and Farewell Trance are adequately non-descript. Karan may have taken the success of KHNH’s music a bit too seriously and has unfairly (to SEL, i.e.,) used it as a model for KANK!

Keywords: Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendosa, Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Abhishek Bachan, Amitabh Bachan, Karan Johar, Closer, Mike Nichols, Shafqat Amanat Ali

Aadhivaasi, Vaanam pola & Chumma go the whole hog in creating mod sounds though you don’t quite carry the tunes home. College life is unlikely to be sung in campuses, despite the desperate attempt at being student-friendly while Kedi Paiya with its nursery rhyme-like tune and moronic lyrics manages to get bang on one’s nerves. Kunguma poove is perhaps the only track that has Yuvan’s inventive, rhythmic arrangements wrapped in some neat interludes. And Jassie Gift’s Unna petha, with that drowsy percussion is sure to please the masses. Yuvan’s music sure seems off-colour this time, besides bordering on the banal!

Keywords: KD, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Ravi Krishna, A M Rathnam, Jyothi Krishna, Iliana, Ileana, Tamanna

To be fair, Soneya, Mehfuz and Roshni make for good listens. Dil has an enjoyable massy rhythm, Rab Jaane’s structure hooks your attention, the arrangements of the traditional Doha and the filmi sounding Kyna’s Song are more-than-decent. A few of the other tracks hopelessly have the beginning-of-Indi-English-pop sound a la Indus Creed. Its perhaps Palash’s voice that runs throughout the album. Or it’s perhaps the typical Euphoria’ish orchestration. Whatever it is, there’s this fatigue by the time you get to track 3. The band could sure do with some experimentation away from these fatigue-points and try evolving out of it.

Keywords: Palash Sen, Pradeep Sarkar