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Album: ‘What’s Your Raashee?’; Music Director: Sohail Sen; Lyricist: Javed Akhtar; Singers: Aslesha Gowariker, Shaan, Bhavya Pandit, Sohail Sen, Marianne D. Cruz, Tarannum Malik, Rajab Ali Bharti, Bela Shende, Ashutosh Gowariker, Pamela Jain, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan and Madhushree; Rating: *** Ashutosh Gowariker’s films are synonymous with A.R. Rahman’s tunes, but for his ‘What’s Your [...]

Even if his films may flop, Akshay Kumar’s movies come with one guarantee – chartbusting music. His next release is a lavish Hollywood meets Bollywood romantic comedy starring Kareena Kapoor as his ultra glam leading lady. Kambakkht Ishq also sees the return of Anu Malik – who hasn’t really been in top form in recent [...]

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy impress with the opening cut – Dhoop Ke Sikke is a fantastic composition which has Anushka Mani singing with Shankar Mahadevan. Soft rock with a bit of jazz in places, Dhoop Ke Sikke has been written by Prasoon Joshi. The song grows on you with repeated listens – Dhoop Ke Sikke sounded nice last [...]

Luck By Chance sees the trio cooking up some rather wicked tunes that borrow generously from psychedelic, folk, classical, lounge, pop and rock music. The result is a trippy, hippie, extremely well produced soundtrack that leaves you swaying, swinging, humming and clicking your fingers. Yeh Zindagi Bhi, the first song of the album has a [...]

he Emraan-Bhatt combo has consistently delivered musical chartbusters right from Murder to the recent Jannat – which features among the year’s top sellers. In an effort to create yet another smash hit album, RTMC has not one but four music directors–Raju Singh, Gourov Dasgupta, Pranay M Rijia and the reality show find Toshi. So is [...]

The music of Golmaal Returns starts with Tha Kar Ke, which begins sounding like ’80s pop and then becomes Hindi hip-hop. The chorus is quite catchy, and the part after that is sung in a way that reminds me of a song by UK-based rapper/hip-hop artiste Badshah and Honey Singh. Vacancy starts with the word [...]

Most people associated with Bollywood may not have heard of Dhruv Ghanekar. But they may recall Bombay Boys or White Noise, which had music by Dhruv and Ashutosh Pathak. But there is more to Ghanekar’s resume than just a few off-beat films. Alongwith Pathak, Dhruv has been producing commercial or jingle music under the Smoke [...]

It requires gumption to take on Kishore Kumar and Laxmikant Pyarelal and it takes considerable guts to take on a once young, sensational Rishi Kapoor. But Himesh Reshammiya has done just that, with his characteristic nonchalance. Karz is a classic that generations of cinefans still pay obeisance to. And we have been shocked, curious and [...]

Taufiq Qureshi, percussionist par excellence has composed the music for Santosh Sivan’s Tahaan. He has composed the background score for several Hindi films like Damini, Black, Devdas and Dil Chahta Hai. Taufiq is even more famous for his guest appearances on albums like Remember Shakti, Masters Of Percussion and Global Drum Project. When you get [...]

It’s one thing listening to assembly line tracks. But it’s a completely different ballgame listening to trash being sold under the name of original music. The CD cover of Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam has Mallika Sherawat showing off her waxed legs, Rahul Bose holding a gun in one hand and a rose in another, Paresh Rawal [...]