Tujh sang lagee‘s faux-qawali sound is familiar, but likeable. Keerthi Sagathia’s Mujh mein tu holds a gorgeous tune, wonderfully sung, with guitar and violins perfectly laid in the background. Kreem’s own other version too sounds fantastic! Dharpakad‘s nursery-rhym’ish tune seems endearing thanks to Bappi Lahiri’s vocals and the violin-based orchestration Kreem skilfully manages. Himesh’s sole [...]

Bramfatura’s Vaazhkaiye is entirely within their characteristic moody electronica sound, with Siddharth Basrur doing a wonderful job with the vocals. Maria pitache is yet another Remo template – catchy, albeit done-to-death Goan music, passably sung by Vikram. But Remo’s other song, Lighthouse Symphony is a captivating serenade before it ventures into his vocal circus! Anirudh’s [...]

Sunidhi sounds completely out of sorts alongside KK in Pad gaye ji – the tune itself sounds like that of an 80s college band’s debut! Crazy Lover‘s lyrics are crazy and the tune is no different; Vishal Dadlani’s enthusiastic singing that saves the song, marginally. Thankfully, Nikhil D’Souza’s John Denver’esque ballad, Bas main aur tu [...]

The title song is brisk and builds its energy gradually and surely, while Khamaka builds into a gorgeously pleasant melody, complete with an African chorus, but with middling vocals by Vishal himself. Rekha is in her elements in the whimsical Oye boy, backed by Gulzar’s amusing lyrics. Lootnewale‘s dhol-led Punjabi sound is grander than usual [...]

Dagabaz re, that post-marriage addendum to Tere mast mast do nain, uses vastly similar tricks, to impress, again. PandeyJi Seeti seems to be constructed especially for Salman’s hip movement… and occasionally ours too. After using Zandu Balm in the earlier film, it’s Fevicol’s time in Fevicol se, but the tune is so embarrassingly 80s. Saanson [...]

Lonely in insanely… insane; an atrocious hodge-podge of assorted genres, topped by Himesh’s ‘lonely lonely’ nose. Balma attempts aping Pancham, with middling results, thanks solely to Shreya. Long drive‘s hiphop Punju sound is appealing, courtesy Mika’s vocals, while, barring Himesh’s horrendous singing, Sari sari raat‘s melody is actually endearing! Hookah bar is terrible techno, even [...]

It could be Suman Sridhar. Or it is perhaps the fairly generic attempt to work within the Mikey McCleary Bartender Mix format, but Muskaanein jhooti hai works seductively well with its retro tune laid out in the bluesy base! Suman Sridhar, of course, weaves magic with her vocals. In Jee le zaraa, Ram puts Vishal [...]

NW1W. It is telling that the mildly listenable song is Paro, by Aadesh Shrivastava! Keywords: Chakravyuh, Salim Sulaiman, Vijay Verma, Sandesh Shandilya, Shantanu Moitra & Aadesh Shrivastava

Apnaa mujhe tu lagaa is by-the-template ballad sung soulfully by Sonu Nigam – nothing new that we haven’t heard, but mildly impactful too. Chirantan scores better in the very Pritam’ish Uska hi banana, where Arijit Singh is the star, while Jaavedaan hai goes much deeper into Pritam territory – partly because of the harmonious chorus [...]

Kiklikalerdi is rhythmic and catchy, no doubt, but is also rather rudimentary. Motorwada gets it right with funky Punjabi layer on hip-hop. The title song is wonderfully earthy, but also so un-Amit’ish with its bare minimum, authentic sound; its instrumental version carries Amit’s signature, though! Harshdeep Kaur sounds stunning in Luni hasi and literally carries [...]