Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy; Lyrics: Javed Akhtar (Hindi) and Willard Carroll (English); Rating: ** ‘Yes! It’s an S-E-L production so the music must be a very innovative and enjoyable listen!’ was my enthusiastic reaction to Marigold soundtrack, well in advance of even acquiring it. How many of you music fans reacted in a similar way? We all [...]

Music Director: Vishal and Shekhar; Lyrics: Vishal, Panchhi Jalonvi and Kumaar; Rating: *** For the connoisseurs of commercial Bollywood filmy music, any musical offering from Anubhav Sinha has always been associated with high quality, full of feeling and in sync-with-time melodious music. Right from his debut movie, ‘Tum Bin’, which had some classy, chart conquering melodies, [...]

Cast: Sanjay Suri, Urmila Matondkar, Zayed Khan, Tanushree Dutta, Aftab Shivdasani, Amrita Arora, Ashish Chowdhry, Sophie Chaudhary, Tanushree Datta, Aftab Shivdasani; Music: Pritam Chakraborty; Rating: **  Hollywood’s CELLULAR or Bollywood’s SPEED! The slapstick trend and formulation of Hollywood’s DVD rip-off’s shows its “jagged” edge again with Vikram Bhatt’s SPEED after the dismal show of under-scripted and dismantled [...]

David Dhawan’s fun filled comedy with Salman Khan and Govinda in the lead has juicy and funky music to its credits, thanks to Sajid-Wajid. The duo has done a cool job in bringing in a variety of flavors in a single soundtrack. There is a certain energy and liveliness present in most of the tracks [...]

Music: Himesh Reshammiya; Lyrics: Himesh Reshammiya Cast: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Katrina Kaif, Shilpa Shetty, and Kirron Kher; Director: Anil Sharma; Rating: ***  After having worked with Uttam Singh (Gadar – Ek Prem Katha) and Anu Malik (Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Sathiyo), it is now Himesh Reshammiya who occupies the seat of the music director [...]

Music: Ashutosh Pathak, Dhruv Ghanekar; Lyrics: Kiran Kotrial; Rating: ***   Once in a whole comes a small film that makes you sit up and take notice of it due a fresh appeal it brings along with it. Especially when a flick boasts of belonging to a teen-romance genre due to a title like MP3 – Mera [...]

Music: Pritam; Lyrics: Syed Quadri; Rating: ***  The Bhatt camp recently raised a lot of eyebrows with their newest offering, Awarapan, which is estimated to have a whopping budget of 18 crores – an extremely high amount for a production house that is used to creating medium-budget films. Nonetheless, Awarapan is Mohit Suri’s fourth run-around with [...]

Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Singers: Shankar Mahadevan, Neeraj Shridhar, Alisha Chinai, Zubeen, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Vishal Dadlani, Vasundhara Das, KK and Sukhvinder Singh Rating: *** “Jhoom Barabar Jhoom” marks a new high in the career of music director trio Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. Here they experiment with a new type of synthesis [...]

Music Director: Ilayaraja Singers: Shreya Ghoshal, Vijay Prakash Ratings: *** Ilayaraja comes to Bollywood to experiment and ends up creating an amazing album. With seven tracks to boast about, including two instrumental numbers, the soundtrack of “Cheeni Kum” is music to the ears. Recommended to all, especially, those who’re great classical music fans and those who’ve had enough of [...]

Director: Apoorva Lakhia; Music : Anand Raj Anand, Mika Singh, Biddu; Lyrics : Dev Kohli, Dr. Palash Sen, Mika Singh, Sanjay Gupta; Rating: ** Sanjay Gupta honed the spark and glint of internationally branded musical formats into his style of action potboilers with grand success. The upbeat trend continued in his last releases and now when [...]