The title song gets everything – lyrics, music and vocals – right, and is the best of the album. Tu kya jaane, Albeliya and Yadaan teriyaan are strongly reminiscent of Kailasa’s earlier works, but still make for an engaging listen. The unabashedly lively Kathagaan is the only one that stands out from the rest of [...]

The musical pieces are understandably eclectic – Symphony of the streets sure is, but Atomizer is a great mix of the filmy tune style and the kind of music Midival Punditz and Karsh Kale are known for. Anushka Manchanda’s What the F gets its glitzy sound right, but as a tune, it fails. Kailash Kher’s [...]

There is a strong Mithoon flavor in Roop Kumar Rathod’s already popular Saaware, composed by Harpreet Singh; a wonderfully arranged melody. Harpreet’s other, fresh contribution to the soundtrack, Deem deem tana, has imaginative orchestration, but a middling tune. Agnee’s older hit Ujale baaz continues to enthrall, complete with gripping guitar usage. Kailash Kher’s Babam bam [...]

Ish Bector’s Kaala jaadu has a naive, folk’ish tune wrapped well in simple, effective orchestration. Kailasa trio – Kailash Kher, Naresh and Paresh’s Kya hawa kya baadal sounds interesting but is also clearly missing their pop outing’s stupendous standard, while Chirantan Bhatt’s Maula is too tepid and stale to make any impact. Tarun & Vinayak’s [...]

Aye khuda is breezy, like a beautiful indipop number and Salim Merchant does his usual brilliant job with the vocals. Vishal Dadlani brings his own attitude in the spunky title song, while Bekarar is typical Lucky Ali material – thoroughly hummable. Mujhe teri starts off in Tulsi Kumar’s pop album style (co-composed by Vijay Lama), [...]

Kailasa’s Chaandan Mein is perfectly in sync with what is expected from the band. The title song shines with Paresh’s guitar and a sweet tune sung with his usual passion, by Kailash. Na batati tu, in an interesting twist, has a playful tune with lively sitar phrases, courtesy Sunil Das, while Teri yaad mein’s simplicity [...]

Kailash, Paresh & Naresh serve an ace in the earthy S.I.D.H.U, peppered with lively lyrics by Kailash, but their other track, Chak lein de, despite all that techno-sound and inspirational theme, is passable. The other trio, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, get both their songs right – the striking title song with the right tinge of mock [...]

Adnan’s choice of vocalists for Vaada tumse – Pandit Jasraj and Parveen Sultana – is a mixed bag. The tune is quite catchy, but the unconventional voices are not necessarily suitable. Shubha Mudgal’s Bichua is trademark Adnan material – rhythmic and very likeable. Asha’s seductive Aise jalta is reminiscent of Adnan’s pop ditties, but in [...]

There’s hardly any doubt that I look forward to most of the mainstream composers’ new work – Rahman, Vishal Shekhar, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Yuvan, Ilayaraja, Pritam, Devi Sri Prasad, Mano Murthy etc. But, there are a few newbies who’s work I look forward to, with extra anticipation, primarily because their last soundtracks were pretty good! [...]