There are common occurrences of the meaning of a film’s title causing resonance through out its soundtrack.
Soch is such a case. The soundtrack provokes thoughts on many accounts. Firstly, we are immediately thinking of how happy we are that
Jatin-Lalit have finally began to change their redundant and dull music into something a little more Nevertheless the proceedings are well done. While the mainstream change is there in songs like “Tohe Leke” and “Dil Dhoonde”, the other romance songs provide for your regular listening pleasure. Sonu Nigam and Richa Sharma sing in oddly counteracting volumes in “Tohe Leke”. It’s a short opener, which is certainly not what we hear often. The experimentalism reaches a peak where we are excellently reverted back to our dholak beats, which give us a traditional feel infused with modern styled tunes. The odd mixture of modernism, in terms of singing and music, and old age music is rarely achieved like this. To add to that Sonu and Richa sing at the right aptitudes to make the song work. Infectious, simply infectious! “Hasata Hai” is a tune with Sameer’s endlessly redundant lyrics. Thankfully, instead of having Alka and Udit grind the tunes in our heads one more time Jatin-Lalit add some spice into it and make it a cabaret dance number with an American Pop (Made for MTV) styled tune. Shwetha and Shradha sound good enough because of the overall background music of the song, we certainly don’t expect to hear them sing any hardcore romance songs anytime soon. The pop feel and the irresistible drum like dance music does make it popular and definite hit material. This is the only song that comes close to “psycho” but in a good way of course. Khamoshi ranks as one of Jatin-Lalit’s best works in their career graph. That goes without saying. It’s been a while since Khamoshi released and it has been equally as long since we’ve heard them apply their Khamoshi talent into any of their songs (even the Chopra/Johar’s don’t get that from them). For that they have given us “Yaadein Bani”, sung by Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik and repeated twice on the soundtrack. Kumar Sanu and Alka haven’t sung a duet like this in a while and boy do we love every minute of it. The softness, the evenly paced verses and of course the veteran singers. This is slow love song at its very best. “Aa Mere Sanam” continues with the same trend but isn’t as appealing and Alka doesn’t have a good hold over it. It’s still tolerable and still of the slow romantic nature. Ending it all off is the Queen Bee and K.K., an interesting combination when you consider both of their talents. “Dil Dhoonde” is well done, singing is excellent, and tune is infectious. However there is something quite evident when you actually hear the song and if you’ve heard Anand Raj Anand’s “Yeh Pyar” from Indian or the Latin-American singer Shakira’s latest song. The song definitely carries the same tune. Still, when Asha Bhosle and K.K. are singing together and when the similarity isn’t there the song is a hit, all the way! The way Jatin-Lalit have taken seventies instrumentalism and brought it out softly and loud at the same time with the effective use of the drums in the background can’t be described! The technical team and Jatin-Lalit have focused more on accentuating the music and leaving the voices to blend in more rather than sounding loud. The outcome couldn’t be more pleasing. Despite the similarity to those two songs we can honestly await this on-screen presence and hope that new director Sushen Bhatnagar has done justice to it. Sameer’s lyrics flow well with the song without setting records for creativity. It is undoubtedly one of the best songs on the soundtrack.
This soundtrack takes time to grow on you as it has on me, but if you appreciate different yet normal music in the same sense it’s a must buy. Many may not like it but you have to give it a fair chance to appreciate it. In the meantime we hope that the fresh director trend has continued with our new Bollywood director Sushen Bhatnagar. Hopefully this psycho thriller with a fresh and talented cast will be thought provoking. For that, it has already started to conceive “soch”; Psycho thriller with strictly romance songs, ponder, ponder. |
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meaningful and semi-fresh to the mind. Secondly,
Sameer and Jatin-Lalit haven’t given us anything to treasure in recent times, both as a combination or solo. Interestingly, Sameer’s lyrics (with the exception of one song) provoke thought and make one interesting in seeing the processions. Our last thought
is, what the heck is this! For all the positive accounts, one truly wonders how a soft, melodious, smooth and a semi-romantic soundtrack would fit in with a film that is described as strict psycho thriller! (Film’s Sub-Line is: “It is a Thought Which Kills”; we’ll die trying to figure it out!) That is surely not the trend Bollywood has been making lately.