With absolutely no promotion for this extremely low-key film, one can´t expect it to be much of a lucky film. Sunil Shetty has become extremely popular as of late, but one can´t expect him to bring this film to hit or average (maybe…) status, especially with Pooja Batra who has yet to succeed in a solo project. The last composition from Dilip Sen Sameer Sen, Anari No. 1 had some upbeat music for an upbeat movie. The equivalent can be said for this run of the mill music album, with few catchy numbers that won´t go far. You´ll see many of them in remix albums to come but they won´t go farther than that. Sameer continues to repeat his lyrics again and again and one hopes he is saving the good one for albums to come (like he did in last year´s Deewane and Dhadkan). The album opens up bringing a hit pair of the past, Abhijeet and Poornima (who has been out of the film scene since!!!!!?)… The musical pieces in "Raaton Ko" are a good change from your average stuff but don´t stick around in the head long. It is still one of the better tracks in the album. "Main Aashiq Hoon" is a fast song with rather annoying singing from each singer (maybe you might want to fast forward this…) Sunidhi sounds annoying (I much prefer her in tracks like Bumbro. Babul sounds like Shaan (or vice versa?) The beats are the sole saving grace in this film, they don´t do much though. The track is also reminiscent of "Main Laila Laila" from Anari No. 1. "Bom Mat Mar" brings to us another idiotic song title with the usual monotonous voice from Remo Fernandes (and annoying kids too!) The result: ugh… Your run of the mill, catchy, upbeat love song is next with "Mohabbat Ho Gayee Hai". A little on the fast side, I can imagine that this song will be featured in the promos (if there are any!) Singing wise Alka sounds sweet and Babul sounds well too (a lot like Kumar Sanu though.) The flute in this track is effective to a certain extent. This is one of the other better songs in this soundtrack. Hema Sardesai joins with Abhijeet this time in your average teaser song, which sounds like it was made for Chi Chi. Jaspinder is also in this track sounding like her usual self. Nothing ground breaking here (not even close…) The song is more funny than upbeat and dance worthy. This nothing much to talk about, album ends with "Dil Dil Dil", which doesn´t sound like a song for Jaspinder. She is lower in tone and the lyrics sound like they are fit for Udit and Alka. The saxophone tunes are taken directly from American singer Ricky Martin´s "Ale Ale." The tune is also reminiscent of "Otashi Anata" from Nadeem Shravan´s ´Aa Ab Laut Chalen.´ The song has a screaming Latin beat and will definitely end the album making one feel empty (not musically filled…) Ittefaq has nothing going for it. I wonder why producers even bother producing films like this when they see what they are competing with! In musical and film aspects even a lame film like Albela had much more going for it than this one does. There is no luck in store for this film but maybe we shouldn´t speak too soon. |
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