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What's your Raashee? Music Review

What’s your Raashee? Music Review

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 [...]

Music Review: Luck By Chance

Music Review: Luck By Chance

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 [...]

MUSIC REVIEW: Raaz - The Mystery Continues

MUSIC REVIEW: Raaz – The Mystery Continues

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 [...]

MUSIC REVIEW: Golmaal Returns

MUSIC REVIEW: Golmaal Returns

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 [...]

Drona Music Review

Drona Music Review

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 [...]

MUSIC REVIEW: Bachna Ae Haseeno

MUSIC REVIEW: Bachna Ae Haseeno

Director Siddharth Anand’s last film with Yash Raj was Ta Ra Rum Pum, a title inspired by a song. The film was a disaster; the music fared better. Anand returns. And he returns with another song-inspired film title – Bachna Ae Haseeno. While the box-office verdict of this film is still a long way off, [...]

Sing is king music review

Sing is king music review

Akshay Kumar’s Singh Is Kinng hit the music stores recently and before we knew it, the CD was already waiting on the desk to be heard. So just how is it, you ask? Well, let’s just say if you’ve liked Race, chances are that you’ll like this one too. This however is not to say [...]