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1 | Yaju Arya

December 2nd, 2006 at 9:26 pm

Though the music is nice and ear-friendly, I couldn’t stop myself from making referances to some of SEL’s songs while listening to the album. Guess they need to come up with some differently styled tunes or experiment with the orchestra otherwise soon they will become stale.

I felt that Javed Akhtar could have done a better job than Sameer, I wonder why didn’t SEL used his services here as lyrics of some songs are no different than what Sameer generally writes.

2 | Arun

December 2nd, 2006 at 9:39 pm

A pretty good album,much better than KANK.
Most importantly,The album is enjoyable.SEL have tried to innovate with their sound and by and large,have done well.

3 | Polo

December 3rd, 2006 at 12:10 am

This is a really good album and it beats KANK and DON hands down! Can’t wait to watch the film.

4 | jemsheed

December 3rd, 2006 at 9:46 am

I totally agree with Yaju Arya .SEL should try to do some experimental works..songs are ok..but nothing new…i feel very repititive..

5 | Sirish

December 3rd, 2006 at 11:59 pm

Yeah…even i got the feeling after listenin to the tracks that SEL’s music is becomin repetetive. The trailor was very catchy with the bagpiper instrument and so is the song. But i could easily remember Rock n Roll Soniye or Thats the way Mahive when listening to this track and Tenu Leke i guess..Nevertheless its a gud album, but i think SEL gives better music to Karan’s movies.

6 | Rohit

December 4th, 2006 at 9:13 am

Kartik,Do check out the album “Ustad & The Divas”.Very good album!

7 | rishi

December 4th, 2006 at 1:16 pm

hey guys, check out the music ANWAR.
awesome songs. Salaam e ishq is very
ordinary, nothing new, sel are so repetitive and boring.
check out MAULA MERE and JAVEDA ZINDAGI
from anwar. They rock big time.
MITHOON ROCKS YAAR!

8 | Hariharan

December 4th, 2006 at 8:56 pm

I dont understand what you mean by repetitive? The whole album is so not like a SEL album. And also, they’ve tried a lot different sounds and it really works. Rishi, I’d rather listen to an album like Salaam E Ishq which would most likely lift my spirit unlike the songs in Anwar, which most of the time are depressing. And Jemsheed, they’ve experimented with every track in the album, most notably Saiyaan Re, so I really dont know what you’re talking about.

9 | Visp

December 4th, 2006 at 9:00 pm

If you want experimental, go listen to some of Rahman’s worthless albums. I dont find this album “repetitive” at all. Go listen to Pritam and Himesh Reshammiya albums and you’ll get a feel of what REPETITIVE is. Even if you guys feel SEL are repetitive, at least they deliver good music, unlike some of the useless composers we have in the industry.

10 | Shez

December 4th, 2006 at 9:04 pm

Karthik, your review seems much similar to that of Joginder Tuteja’s review on IndiaFM.

11 | Karthik

December 4th, 2006 at 9:15 pm

Huh? In what way?

12 | Shez

December 4th, 2006 at 9:23 pm

Well, the fact that you both mentioned the Carribbean influence in Dil Kya Kare, which I think is sheer coincidence. And also, this line - “a sweet track quite typical of the composers and Shaan”. I certainly remember Joginder saying something like that too…

13 | Karthik

December 5th, 2006 at 7:11 am

Oh that! Actually the word I wanted to use was Calypso, even though Carribean is appropriate since it gets a lot more flavor for this track.

That sweet track from Shaan part, had included ‘typical of the composers and peers like Vishal Shekar’, but my 100 word limit came in the way! More than SEL, I guess VS have a lot more of such sweet tracks notably by Shaan.

14 | Rohit

December 5th, 2006 at 9:21 am

Chill Shez dude!I dont think Karthik needs to be influenced by someone else to write his 100 words.He’s pretty good at what he does and about that Carribean,If a guitar is used in a song,we have mention it as a guitar in any review,It wont change..Would it?

15 | Karthik

December 5th, 2006 at 9:26 am

Hey, thats alright. Considering I also run a website on plagiarism, I’m usually extra alert not to get influenced by other reviews, particularly IndiaFM’s since its read by so many people.

16 | jemsheed

December 5th, 2006 at 2:37 pm

am repeating,There is nothing new in this album.I dont know why this guys are arguing.Go for Anwar u will get 2 nice tracks(Maula,Tose naina),Go fro guru u will get(Terebina,Aye hairathe,Jage hain).What happened for Kyun ho gaya na, Laksya,KANK,DON.Only 1 or 2 songs are best thre..Title song startted very decently and it was exciting but when lines(lyrics) reaches it becam typical SEL song..
They r 3 in numbers..isnt it.?its sad non of them makes anything innovative…

17 | Karthik

December 5th, 2006 at 2:42 pm

On those lines, let me reinvent my last sentence like this,

Nikhil Advani seems to be still in the Karan Johar mode, while he also drags SEL along the same route. Result: You get yet another KJ-styled score that reeks of half a dozen other KJ camp films. But this one’s definitely better than KANK, IMO.

18 | Ashim

December 5th, 2006 at 4:04 pm

Guys, I think SEL have to show a hint of a song from their first movie “Kuch Na Kaho”.. The tabla beat in the title song matches the title song of SEI. Even one song sounds like a Bunty Babli inspiration..

19 | Hariharan

December 5th, 2006 at 7:13 pm

FYI, it was Advani who brought SEL into the KJ camp. KJ wanted Jatin-Lalit for KHNH but it was Advani who insisted that SEL be the composers. And after KJ had his little catfight with Jatin-Lalit, he started takin SEL for his films. So technically, we got a Nikhil Advani score in KANK.

20 | Karthik

December 5th, 2006 at 7:19 pm

Point taken. But you do know how people like Subash Ghai, Yash Chopra or KJ get involved in their productions? And how similar in terms of sound and variety was the score of KANK, despite the fall out between KJ and NA?

So, perhaps, the sound that evolved from SEL for KHNH was a combination of NA and KA’s sensibilities, which, besides being carried in KANK, now becomes SEL’s trademark sound in SEI!

Aaw, these shortened versions….

21 | tina

December 6th, 2006 at 1:10 pm

hey guys check out ANWAR, the music is fabulous, MAULA MERE aND JAVEDA ZINDAGI
are awesome.
great music by MITHOON.

22 | Hariharan

December 6th, 2006 at 7:51 pm

Haha..You have a point there.

23 | Hariharan

December 7th, 2006 at 1:14 pm

Average album…

24 | Ravindran

December 14th, 2006 at 7:12 pm

Bakwas album. KANK was 10 times better than this.

25 | Ravindran

December 23rd, 2006 at 2:38 pm

On second thoughts and some repeated hearings I think SEI is a good album with a few good numbers to boast of.

26 | tyrannicrabbit

April 9th, 2007 at 5:09 am

I know its really late to bump into this thread but I was wondering Karthik, do you prefer Composers to who never copy or composers who lift repetitively? Just wondering.
BTW I think that was a very different SEL album, i mean most music composers dont use a bagpipe. I have only heard Anu Malik and Shankar Jakishan use it before. Isn’t it different to use a bagpipe? Also SEL’s songs have influenced other composers. A.R. Rahman’s song Tere Bina in Guru resembles SEL’s Aao Naa from Kyun Ho gaya naa. ( Dum tara Dum tara mast mast- Re sa ni ni sa ni..)
Hey but Karthik I really like this website. I mean your efforts to get all these songs shows that you are passionate about your music. I just wanted to point what the bias some people were talking about.

27 | tyrannicrabbit

April 9th, 2007 at 5:10 am

I know its really late to bump into this thread but I was wondering Karthik, do you prefer Composers to who never copy (but are a little repetitive) or composers who lift very often? Just wondering.
BTW I think that was a very different SEL album, i mean most music composers dont use a bagpipe. I have only heard Anu Malik and Shankar Jakishan use it before. Isn’t it different to use a bagpipe? Also SEL’s songs have influenced other composers. A.R. Rahman’s song Tere Bina in Guru resembles SEL’s Aao Naa from Kyun Ho gaya naa. ( Dum tara Dum tara mast mast- Re sa ni ni sa ni..)
Hey but Karthik I really like this website. I mean your efforts to get all these songs shows that you are passionate about your music. I just wanted to point what the bias some people were talking about.

28 | Karthik

April 9th, 2007 at 10:08 am

I just like composers doing their jobs sincerely. Lifting is almost like a state of mind - in fact if I was not aware of the original of say, Kya mujhe pyaar hai, I’d have 2 opinions - that the song is amazing and that Pritam is an amazing composer.

What changes after the awareness of the original is only the second part which goes on to become, “well, he’s a good sound arranger, may be an average composer!”

Using a bagpipe is indeed very different. I’ve no issues with that. Just that the music in Salaam-e-ishq sounded quite monotonous to me, personally.

Music, in my opinion, is highly subjective. If it gives you happiness, no review should ever stop you from listening to it. But yes, as is the intention of this blog, we could always discuss on why you liked it and I didn’t so that I could learn a new way of appreciating music. Thats the best part!

29 | pman

April 9th, 2007 at 7:07 pm

One thing i have noticed with Indian composers is that if they are prolific, they either a) lift songs b) start getting monotonous. Pritam falls in the first category. SEL who really take care not to lift songs have become slightly monotonous. I still look forward to both Pritam’s and SEL sounttracks.

30 | Karthik

April 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

Oh I definitely look forward to every SEL/ Pritam/ VS/ Salim Sulaiman soundtracks - these are guys who can take us completely by surprise given a god director/ script.

I’d sure add Mithoon to this list - I’m hooked to the Woh ajnabi promo from The Train!

31 | tyrannicrabbit

April 10th, 2007 at 5:17 am

Yeah I was just wondering about your opinion on Indian composers. ( I didn’t really mean to attack your opinion) Of course you can keep your opinions on the music of SEL. Thanks for the reply. I too listen to and wait for SEL, Pritan, VS and Mithoon’s tracks as they are usually quite interesting to listen to. Man if only songs like Kya mujhe pyaar hain and tu hi meri shab hai were actually composed by an Indian composer, that would have totally changed my view of Pritam.

32 | Karthik

April 11th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Thats an interesting nick/ handle you’ve got there…tyrannicrabbit! Does it mean anything specifically?

33 | tyrannicrabbit

April 12th, 2007 at 4:09 am

nah nothing really just a screen name that i use on forums and aim