Sep 23, 2014 02:07 PM
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Farah Khan returns to the limelight again with her next big directorial venture Happy New Year starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. Anything related to Shah Rukh generates widespread interest among the audience and with this film, the ace actor and Farah Khan have joined hands once more after their previous blockbuster Om Shanthi Om, which released seven years ago. Naturally, expectations are huge about the movie and one expects the music to be as big a hit as their previous movies together. Vishal Shekhar are the composers while Irshad Kamil writes the https://lyrics. One does hope to hear something memorable with commercial viability too.
The opening track is Indiawaale sung by a motley crew of singers. Vishal Dadlani, Shankar Mahadevan, KK and Neeti Mohan are credited here and this is an out and out fun number with strong doses of patriotic fervour infused into it. Kamil's lyrics are in sync with the tone and tenor of the music, but this is hardly the kind of opening track that one would have expected in this album. The music has a situational appeal to it and though the singers try hard, they are unable to take the song to a satisfactory level. A few years ago, a track of this kind would have appeared probably towards the end of a soundtrack and it is quite debatable to see it upfront here. We have to wait and watch if this risk bears fruit to the makers.
Rating:2.5/5
Seeing Arijit Singh and Shreya Ghoshal's names for the next track Manwa Laage makes one to sit up and play with good anticipation. First things first, the composition is very unlike Vishal Shekhar, though one can hear traces of their stamp at some places. The rustic feel of the song coupled with Arijit and Shreya's effortless renditions make the song very appealing. Shreya Ghoshal never ceases to surprise and Arijit gets one more good song to add to his ever growing repertoire of hits.A mention is necessary to the lyricist too for the sweet and simple words which add a lot of weight to the song in totality.
Rating:3.5/5
After a long time, Sukhwinder Singh returns to the singing scene with Satakli and right from the beginning, he leaves his trademark all over. But the excitement fizzles out quite soon as the song unfolds as the tune and the music are pedestrian and hardly impress. In fact, it is quite hard to believe this is actually an SRK song. The singer tries hard, but never manages to rise above the mediocre setting of the song. This one might work with strong promotions, but ends up as a disappointment.
Rating:2/5
The next track is Lovely with the vocals of Kanika Kapoor, Ravindra Upadhyay, Miraya Varma and Fateh. It begins with Arabic sounds before reminding of the popular Baby Doll song too. Kanika Kapoor continues from where she left off in Baby Doll and gives a similar performance here, but the former song was better in terms of the overall sound and the arrangements. There is the customary rap in the interludes with few good results. The composition pattern is quite similar to Meet Bros Anjaan kind and it is quite evident that the track has been knit keeping a song like Baby Doll in mind. But the composers fail to get the right ingredients to make this work on a large level. It is massy and with excellent picturisation on Deepika, it will manage to grab eyeballs for a few weeks.
Rating:2.5/5
So far it has been quite a disappointing time barring Manwa Laage and one hopes to hear something better in the forthcoming tracks. World Dance Medley, as the name suggests is a medley of the tracks heard till now. Shah Rukh Khan chips in with his usual style and highlights some issues plaguing our country and this piece keeps changing tracks all through its five minute duration. More than auditory value, this one is for the big screen and will be incorporated in the movie at a crucial juncture.
Rating:2.5/5
Next one is a weirdly titled Nonsense Ki Night and the lyrics is equally bizarre. I actually checked the credits again to verify whether it was really Vishal Shekhar's composition. The song absolutely does not make any sense and is actually nonsensical. The singing is plain bad and it is getting harder to bear Mika's singing style these days. This one might give headaches to a few. It's getting tough to believe that this was the same jodi(Farah and V-S) that gave a musical hit like Om Shanthi Om.
Rating:1/5
By this time, one would have lost almost all their interest in the soundtrack. Anyway, we see the arrival of Dance like a Chammiya. Sung by Sunidhi Chauhan and Vishal Dadlani, this is a slightly better track than the previous one and it is largely due to the high spirited singing of Sunidhi. The lyrics is purely functional and so is the music. The makers have tried really hard to make the tracks mass friendly, but there is a fine line separating massy from plain average and this album is veering closer to the latter. Most of the songs have very little audio value and the makers would do well to create some good videos so that they can make an impact.
Rating:2/5
Happening beats start the next track Sharabi with the vocals of Manj Musik, Nindy Kaur, Vishal and Shekhar. This track is much better than the previous few ones, more so due to the strong Punjabi flavour in the proceedings. It has the right energy and the vocals too create the desired mood. Though it does not have an enduring value, the song will work well in parties, discos and charts for a few weeks before fizzling out of sight.
Rating:3/5
To make things slightly complicated, we have one more version of Indiawaale, this time in an electronic version. Things remain just the same barring a few additional beats and some electronic buzz. At the beginning, this track seemed quite ordinary, but after listening to most other tracks, this one sounds better. Honestly, this kind of a bland album was least expected.
Rating: 2.5/5
The Heist is a short instrumental piece created by John Stewart Eduri. Since the movie has a heist story, this track finds its place in the album.It is slightly reminiscent of Tees Maar Khan's instrumental version and would be used as a central theme piece in the movie.
Lovely has one more version at the end titled Kamlee. After Katrina Kaif gyrated to a similar titled track in Dhoom 3, it is now the turn of Deepika Padukone and it would be interesting to see which version would be used in the movie. The track remains almost the same, albeit with a few cosmetic changes. But nothing significant to raise the song a few notches up from the earlier version.
Rating:2.5/5
So what started off as an exciting album finishes with dismay. Expectations were high about the music of this film, but the end result is unable to satiate any music lover. Forget memorable tracks, this album has very few songs with chartbuster potential. Initially, it seemed like a wholesome package with a wide range of songs to choose from, but that is not the case here as most of them seldom succeed in raising above the average level. Manwa Laage is the only big saving grace in this letdown of a soundtrack. Vishal Shekhar seem out of ideas and this effort of theirs will end up as one of their weakest works. Now, it is left to the star power of Shah Rukh Khan to somehow make it a winning horse. A big disappointment indeed.
Overall Rating:2/5
