You’d be forgiven for approaching this album with a lot of trepidation. After all, there are no big names in this film and that includes the producer and director. However, newcomers can sometimes surprise, right? How bad could it be? OH MY GOD!!!!! The album begins with a false hope, "Rajai Odh Ke". This sweet love song has a catchy tune, okay lyrics and great singing from Asha Bhosle and Udit Narayan. The two singers seem to have great fun giving shape to the tune. Not a bad start to the album. Unfortunately, the album goes rapidly downhill reaching new depths of depravity! I don’t know how Alisha Chinai managed to keep a straight face when singing, "Bollywood Ki Baby, Hollywood Ki Mem, Khelne Aayi Hoon Pyar Ka Game……" She then proceeds to chastise the very men she’s trying to titillate with, "…shame, shame, shame…" Lyricist, Shaheen Iqbal, should realise that a good lyric should do more than just rhyme! If this is the kind of drivel that Alisha was being offered, then I don’t blame her for turning her back on film music. "Zindagi Hai Gana", has Vinod Rathod complaining that he’s all alone, that other people have sons, brothers and friends and he doesn’t. Well, I’m not surprised he has no friends with sexist attitudes like that. Why isn’t he complaining about not having a daughter or a sister? Skip it! "Chute Hai Phar Phar" is ridiculously lewd and crude. Sapna Awasthi and Rafique somehow manage to get through the number - I, on the other hand, couldn’t. Never has the "skip" button been so inviting. Not even Asha Bhosle and Udit Narayan can save the insipid "Ek Ladke Pe Aa Gaya Hai" which has Asha screaming, "Khulke mujhse mil tu aake….." I can’t believe Asha and Udit agreed to sing this rubbish. Finally, the less said about Sudesh Bhosle’s "Main Hoon Dabbewala" the better! Suffice it to say, you can’t go any lower! This is just another nail in Ram Laxman’s career coffin. Will Sooraj Barjatya be able to save him now? |
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