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KK and Shilpa Rao complement each other beautifully in Khuda jaane - a sweeping melody accentuated by excellent chorus, while Lucky boy, follows a predictable tune, but with a catchy rhythm that works. With Jesse Cook-like guitar and Khuda hafiz’ish tune (Lucky Ali factor?), Ahista ahista too is interesting. Shekhar’s voice differentiates the otherwise trademark Yashraj, Jogi mahi. Small town girl sounds more like the trio’s music - Shankar building on the addictive hook quite well. The everlasting title song’s remix is a punchy new avatar with zingy rap intrusions by Vishal. A step behind De taali, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Keywords: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Minissha Lamba, Bipasha Basu

The title song by Calvin Broadus featuring a ‘poonjabi’ Snoop Dogg is straight Doggy ishtyle, but in the Indian milieu this hip hop mix is rather bland. Pritam’s variant of the title song, Bas ek king, on the other hand, is bang-on with excellent vocals by Mika and Neeraj Shridhar. Jee Karda and Talli hua are catchy but strictly assembly-line, while Daler infuses life into the raucous Bhootni ke. The lovely Teri ore, sung with verve by Shreya and Rahat takes a curious Celtic turn. A couple of decent tracks don’t add up to the hype the Kinng has generated!

Note: Wondering who Calvin Broadus is? That’s Snoop Dogg’s real name :-). The ‘Singh is Kinng’ title song is composed by Calvin Broadus along with the RDB trio - Surjeet Singh, Manjeet Ral and Kuldeep Ral.

Keywords: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Junglee Music, Sonu Sood, Snoop Dogg

Anu Malik not only has Sukhwinder contorting his overused vocals but also wastes Shilpa Rao in the pathetic Main sajda. The title song is even worse - Adnan sounding as uninterested as he can. Krishna’s Soniya aaja ni takes the album further down - one tedious experience! Thankfully, the album is nearly saved by the Lucky Ali - Vasundhara Das duet Nazar mein hai chehra. With its middle eastern tune and arrangements, the track is fairly interesting even though it hardly sounds like a Anu Malik song! This humdrum soundtrack may not bring to this film, what the title asserts!

Keywords: Aryeman, Sayali Bhagat, Ranvir Shorey, Lucky Ali, Annu Malik

Neeraj Shridhar’s buoyant vocals, rapper Indee’s (surprisingly credited!) bloody catchy hook and Pritam’s overall arrangements make Aai paapi (Tu hai meri soniye) absolutely scintillating. This is one heck of an exuberant track! Bakhuda tumhi ho too works big time - Atif’s magical vocals at work beautifully here, along with Alka Yagnik’s, besides the soulful tune Pritam cooks up. But Move your body is mundane while Is this love is plain routine. So is guest composers Sajid Wajid’s assembly line Soniye ve. But make no mistake – Kismat Konnection’s soundtrack makes the cut just for the first two tracks! Rock on, Pritam!

Keywords: Shahid Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Atif Aslam

Talli is a sad attempt at aping the Pritam sound, while Karle gunah’s Punjabi reggaeton is best left alone to Anu himself. Yeh nazar, with its 80s pop style is the only track that’s reasonably listenable but the confused Latino mix in Shut up, clubbed with age-old Dr.Alban rhythms is painful - Anu’s own singing adds to the woes. Mohit Chauhan’s Yaad teri aaye is downright flat and monotonous, despite desperate attempts by Anu in turning it into a classy, guitar-driven ballad. Ugly aur pagli has Anu Malik aping new-age composers like Pritam and Vishal Shekhar, with utterly uninspiring results.

Keywords: Ranvir Shorey, Mallika Sherawat

Bob Sinclair’s cult hit, World, Hold on gets an interesting desi-makeover by Shamir Tandon. Debutant Chirantan Bhatt cooks up a catchy, reggaeton-based title track and a spritely Nobody like you with neat singing by Neeraj Shridhar. Mika’s gangsta-rap Apun ke saath is dependably gung-ho. Anu Malik’s Yaar mera dildaara is stale, but he scores big time with the very eclectic Jo gumshuda - Turkish pop star Ege, Shaan and Mahalakshmi Iyer’s super vocals and a lovely tune - that ‘Daastaan wohi’ turn is trademark Anu! - all add up to the magic! Mission Istaanbul’s soundtrack is smart, hep and groovy!

Keywords: Vivek Oberoi, Zayed Khan, Shreya Saran, Sunil Shetty, Mission Istanbul

Ram Gopal Varma’s fetish for spending peanuts on his film’s music continues in Sarkar Raj, with Bapi Tutul playing willing monkeys. There’s a clear Govinda overdose in this soundtrack that is marred by a moody, haphazard and bizarre sound. Jhini jhini is the only track that was remotely listenable – the rest is a so-called thematic hodge podge with every track trying to paint, with its musical strokes, the image of Amitabh playing Sarkar – quite desperately. Ramu perhaps thinks way too much about his own skills that he doesn’t consider it important to get a better composer for his films anymore!

Keywords: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Any Other Bachchan?

Raahat’s version of the title song is better than Rekha Bharadwaj’s, though both have too familiar a Vishal tune. Raghav’s two songs - Rang and Khwahish offer precious little, while Anand Raaj Anand contributes with the surprisingly decent Jeeta hoon and Rani - both with delightful vocals by Sonu Nigam and an old-worldly charm in the tunes. His other track, Oye hoye is mere hai hai. Pritam’s lone track with Labh Jajua and Hard Kaur, Agg lage, is functional but nothing like the groovy stuff we expect from him. Anand Raaj Anand wins the 4 cook broth that is Haal-e-dil.

Keywords: Amita Pathak, Nakuul Mehta, Adhyayan Suman, Raghav Sachar, Pritam, Vishal Bharadwaj, Anand Raaj Anand

With its dose of assembly-line techno phrases, Kay Kay’s Aa gaya hun mein and Kunal’s Sach kehna are reasonably good, even as the moth-balled tune doesn’t gel with the mod arrangements. Jaane kaisi hai is trademark Anu Malik and is at least 10 years behind time. Alisha’s Lover boy is plain cheesy while Mausam achanak is a non-descript melody heading nowhere. Meelon ka jaisa tha fasla takes the cheesiness quotient one step further, but thankfully, Shaan infuses some life into the soundtrack with the very catchy, Milo na milo. For a futuristic movie, Love Story 2050’s music is pretty outdated.

Keywords: Harman Baweja, Priyanka Baweja, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani

It may be Murtuza-Qadir…the Rahman-touch, I mean! Amit Trivedi’s opening track, Ha raham is absolutely scintillating. Very Rahman’ish in its approach to the sufi tune, the bang-on arrangements and super singing. Amit gets behind the mike with amazing confidence in Chakkar ghumyo - yet another tune-driven song which wows with its frenzied vocals and mesmerizing folk tune. Haara is almost Moby - very progressive, unconventional arrangements that herald a new trend in Indian film music, and brilliantly sung by Amit! The softer parts in this track contrast amazingly with the more volatile phases. Neuman Pinto’s singing style is equally impressive in Phas gaya, another song that displays Amit’s musical inventiveness with some ground-breaking arrangements. With Ek lau, this album gets a marvelous, mellow drift, with its poignant tune and minimal, ably supporting orchestration and Shilpa Rao’s addictive vocals. The Climax theme is haunting no doubt, but with generous shades of Hans Zimmer’ish, Lisa Gerrard-styled vocals. After some very neat work in Abhijeet Sawant’s Junoon, thoughtful programming for Raman Mahadevan’s Ramanasia and Prashant Tamang’s Deewana, Amit Trivedi proves to be one of the most promising composers in recent times. Aamir is the most innovative soundtrack I’ve heard this year so far!

Keywords: Rajeev Khandelwal, Cavite