Meenakshi Sundareshwar Music Review
When the promotional campaign of a film begins with the launch of a song, you realize the makers have a lot of faith in the music and believe it will…
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Bunty Aur Babli 2 Music Review
“Huge!” – that’s the one word in which you can describe the expectations one has from the music of ‘Bunty Aur Babli 2’. ‘Bunty Aur Babli’, which came out 16…
Hum Do Hamare Do Music Review
When a composer duo, with a very good body of work behind them, and a fine wordsmith join hands for the first time, you can’t help but have high expectations…
Sanak Music Review
You don’t really expect a lot from the music of a film which is designed to be an actioner. However, ‘Sanak’, starring Vidyut Jammwal and Rukmini Maitra, features a young…
Shiddat Music Review
When a music company (T-Series) and a production house (Maddock Films) that is known to produce films with good music come together for a romantic drama, you definitely have good…
Radhe Your Most Wanted Bhai Music Review
When it’s an action film starring Salman Khan, you expect vibrant and catchy songs that would befit the star’s persona and do justice to the scale at which the songs…
Bole Naina Music Review
After delivering a bunch of memorable performances in a talent hunt/reality show several years back, Pratibha Singh Baghel went on to sing in a couple of Hindi films. One of…
Haathi Mere Saathi Music Review
‘Haathi Mere Saathi’, a film shot simultaneously in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu is all set to be one of the first major films to hit the theatres in a post…
The Girl On The Train Music Review
‘The Girl On The Train’, a film headlined by Parineeti Chopra, is an official remake of the American film of the same name which had released in 2016. The original…
Rewind Shabd: The first collaboration between Vishal & Shekhar and Irshad Kamil has aged very well
Sometime in 2004, producer Rangita Pritish Nandy and filmmaker Leena Yadav approached composer Sandesh Shandilya to score the music for their then upcoming film ‘Shabd’. Sandesh had earlier worked with…
Music Review Darbaan
Based on the short story ‘Khokababur Pratyabartan’ written by Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Darbaan’ is an emotional tale of a young man (Sharad Kelkar) and a person (Sharib Hashmi) who served his…
Music Review Ludo
While director Anurag Basu and composer Pritam Chakraborty’s association began with the latter scoring the title track for many of the TV shows directed by the former, the first film…
REWIND Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar: Daboo Malik’s first film album remains his best till date
Being the son of composer Sardar Malik, Daboo Malik had an inclination towards music but he was more interested in facing the camera as an actor. In the 80s and…
Rewind: The immersive soundtrack Mithoon put together for Lamhaa has aged very well
Rahul Dholakia has made films on a variety of subjects and one thing that has been a common factor in most of his films is good music. He made his…
Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl Music Review
‘Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl’, produced by Dharma Productions and Fox Star Studios, arrives on a streaming platform on August 12. The soundtrack has released on August 3. That gives…
Bandish Bandits Music Review
‘Tu sabra ka saamaan, main viral huyee zubaan…tu raag sa mahaan, main beat si jawaan”, Divyanshu Malhotra takes a cue from lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya’s penchant for using colloquial words and…
Music Review Dil Bechara
Since ‘Mom’ (2017), A.R. Rahman stayed away from composing for a Hindi film for a very long time. If we do not take 2.0, which was a Tamil film and…
REWIND Ankahee: The melancholic melodies put together by Pritam for this film have aged very well
2006 was a landmark year for Pritam. After scoring his first superhit album as a solo composer with ‘Dhoom’ (2004), the composer started delivering hit songs consistently. Regardless of the…
Music Review Guns Of Banaras
‘Guns of Banaras’, the official remake of the 2007 Tamil film ‘Polladhavan’, is set in Banaras/Varanasi and thus, one expects the music of the film carry the rooted, ingenious touch…
Music Review Love Aaj Kal
From ‘Jab We Met’ (2007) to ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ (2017), director Imtiaz Ali, composer Pritam and lyricist Irshad Kamil have collaborated on three films together. Actually, four if you…