Johnny Gaddar (Hindi – Shankar Ehsaan Loy)

08 Sep, 2007

Johnny Gaddar (Hindi – Shankar Ehsaan Loy)

Posted by: Karthik In: Hindi OST

Dhoka and the title track definitely carry a distinct appeal, taking off from the trio’s sound in Don. Johnny breakbeat rocks big time, as a funky, retro mix, but the 3 genre recreation, Bhule bisre (Nayyar + Bolly-swing + Burman’ish) aims too far and ends nowhere. Move your body sounds like an uninspired take on the trio’s own, better score in JBJ. Revenge of the 70s is marginally interesting for the Kalyanji Anandji sound. Johnny Gaddar is an overdose of the so-called retro-sound, that it so joyously aims to celebrate, but ends up with limited personality on its own.

Keywords: Neil Mukesh, Zakir Hussain, Dharmendra, Rimi Sen, Vinay Pathak

PS: Thanks to ‘ursmusically’ Suresh, I dug deeper into this soundtrack’s CD sleeve and found that Shankar Ehsaan Loy really do not deserve title credits as composers since they’ve done ONLY 3 complete tracks (not adding the vernacular variants of 2 of those!). Daniel B. George has, to his credit, 5 tracks in this soundtrack, followed by 2 for DJ Shane and one for Gulraj Singh. Here’s the complete track list with the composer’s name against each! This is amazingly well ‘designed’ in the album sleeve!

01. Johnny Gaddaar – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
02. Move your body – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
03. Dhoka – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
04. Johnny in the house – DJ Shane
05. Move your body (Phatt Mix) – DJ Shane
06. Johnny breakbeat mear naam – Gulraj Singh
07. Revenge of the 70s (Instrumental) – Daniel B. George
08. The caper begins (Instrumental) – Daniel B. George
09. Toss (Instrumental) – Daniel B. George
10. Confidence (Instrumental) – Daniel B. George
11. Bhule bisre geet – Daniel B. George
12. Johnny Gaddaar (Tamil) – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
13. Move your body (Tamil) – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
14. Johnny Gaddaar (Telugu) – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
15. Move your body (Telugu) – Shankar Ehsaan Loy

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tejas

I liked the soundtrack. Move your body is a very nice uptempo song until Shankar decided to spoil it with his JBJish sound. And the title sounds very much like the soundtrack of Paanch. I liked the retro music. It sounds so real..
devMannemela

IMHO S-E-L composed songs were the best of this soundtrack. All the other retro stuff isn't as catchy.

HardKaur is a popular brit-asian artist.
Rishi

I actually kinda like this soundtrack now by the way... after I gave it a couple more shots.

Although the credit issue is really interesting. The thing these companies do for sales.
Karthik

Holy shit, you're right. Daniel's name is so insignificantly placed in the sleeve that its so easy to miss! This is maha unfair!

But, on second thoughts, maybe that explains, at least personally, why I didn't like this so much!
ursmusically

Karthik - It is not just the two instrumentals. Of this 11 songs soundtrack (excluding the tamil and telugu ones), only 3 tracks are by SEL and 6 instrumentals and 'Bhoole bisre geet' are by Daniel. and the break beat is by Gulraj singh. even if you go by numbers, Daniel has contributed more than SEL,,,, but as you said, SEL sells, i wonder if I would have bought this soundtrack if it wasn't for SEL...
Karthik

As Arun mentions in the post above yours, I believe Daniel is responsible for 'Revenge of the 70s' and 'The caper begins'. Yes, its sad to see his name relegated to one corner of the album notes...maybe 'cos SEL is the name that can sell.

Regarding the two thumbs, I'm sure Raja Sen's review would've made you happy. Opinions... hmmm! They're a pain aren't they? :-)
ursmusically

retro instrumentals by Daniel B.George are great. It is a pity that Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy gets the credit for the whole soundtrack on the CD cover and only when we dig-in the booklet, we find that Daniel is the one who made all those brilliant tracks.... why are they doing this? commercial reasons? and there is no mention in ur 100 words too...god save good music...

I thought you would give two thumbs up for this soundtrack... anyway opinion differs...
Arun

Just for the info, Bhoole Bisre Geet & all the instrumentals here have been done by Daniel B. George (Seher?) while Johnny Breakbeat has been credited to Gulraj Singh.

On the soundtrack, I pretty much liked it. Move your body, Johnny Breakbeat & Bhoole Bisre Geet are good.
rakesh

tiyaa: i m pretty sure his name is not monty singh.. its sharma if i m right....
karthik is entitled to his views... but i feel johnny gadaar is one of their finest work till date.. it may not be a commercial success... but all the deliberate "retro sounds" sure gives it a fresh outlook.. people must be sick of sufi-rock which seems to be the rage....
tiyaa

i saw the promo of sawariya...the music
sounded very similar to devdas...i
wish that monty singh has given some
great music..
veejay

Raja Sen acts as if he knows it all (especially about Hollwyood movies, as if he was born and brought up in US and writes with a fake authoritative tone, which is a putoff) and thats why I am not a big fan of him. He also reviews regional movies with those fake borrowed Western(Hollywood) sensibilities. Whereas Baradwaj Rangan(blogical conclusion) does an impressive job of putting his opinions across in a balanced tone, without sounding condescending even when he is ripping a movie apart. That is good writing.
Also tired of Raja Sen licking Bachchan's nuts every time he gets a chance, even in a movie as abyssmal as RGV ki Aag. And like most of his northie rediff brethren, the guy is clueless about good Tamil/Malayalam films & actors. And he is certainly not a music reviewer. Iam tired of this lazy rediff trend of asking their movie reviewers to pass of as music reviewers as well. It shows..badly. I wish we had a Baradwaj Rangan-kind of reviewer for music as well.
Karthik

Actually, I quite like reading Raja Sen's reviews and personally think most of the hate-comments he gets are plain silly and unwarranted.

Just that I do not agree with his point of view over this film's music. But, like the way he has gone overboard expressing his liking for this one!
yaju

Raja Sen is more into western stuff and perhaps that's the reason why he liked this album as it doesn't have much Indian touch.

As Abhishek has said, rediff has recieved the maximum flak for their reviews. Sure, opinions do differ, but for some reasons rediff just doesn't get it right.
Abhishek Shetty

Rediff's reviews dont make any sense. They have given the worst reviews available on the net.
Karthik

Is this S-E-L's best album? Raja Sen of Rediff thinks so!

http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/sep/12zzjg.htm

I went back to the album and still found it forcefully retro - with no musical maturity that Raja Sen points to. The non-retro tracks are still the best - Dhoka, title track and Move your body, which I like specifically 'cos it has a JBJ feel to it and is brainlessly catchy. Hardkaur is a nice pun too :-)

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