Music: Mithoon, Amar Mohile
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1. Khalbali (Punjabi) ----------- 9/10
2. Khalbali -------------------------- 9/10
One of the most fresh songs of 2013. Mixing elements of Sufi music and qawwali, this song is a good departure from the typical R&B songs. The lead singers Arijit Singh and Tochi Raina give it a nice intensity. It will quickly get you foot tapping. The Punjabi version sounds more appealing that the duet version owing to it's folk genre and thus sounds more authentic like that.
3. Kaise Bataaoon -------------- 7/10
A soft and simple romantic track by KK. It is not path breaking but treads a safe path towards being a likable song. The female lead sounds a little dry.
The Cantabile version is less interesting, as the original song is barely passable, and this sounds more like an unplugged chorus version, which is not that great. Plus, there is no KK in this version.
Final verdict: Overall, gets a 6/10. This was surprisingly a decent album. All the songs are fairly listenable and Khalbali is especially good.
Music: Krsna
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This is one album which is fairly interesting for the most part, but suffers from the situational nature of the songs.
Brownie points:
- L Lag Gaye, Law Lag Gaye - Bappi Lahiri is experiencing a comeback of sorts. His nutty style of music is hitting the right chord once again, and here we have this hilarious track. The song purely relies on the funny anecdotes presented in the song, and if you find the 'L' Lag Gaye pun funny, both songs will be an addition to the funny songs playlist.
- Ajnabi - This is one fun romantic song, which is almost prose put to poetry, however, it's naive lyrics is what wins us over. Mohit Chauhan fans will love it.
- Hans Ki Chaal - Oddly enough, Kailash Kher and his folk style has never sounded so good before. This social commentary qawwali is brilliantly bourgeois.
Final verdict: The album is pretty funny and good to listen to. But it does not leave any impression and could just be a passing fancy.
Music: Sajid-Wajid, Sundar C Babu
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With a fair amount of energy and some devotion(!), the album is just about average. Nothing to remember in this one, except Sajid-Wajid come up with another Govinda Aala Re song in a 2 month span, which is fun, but you really have to be missing Gokulashtami already. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is very repetitive and consistently good in qawwali at the same time in Dil Ko Aaya Sukoon.
Music: Amjad Nadeem, Vivek Kar
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Average and boring, with some Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Rekha Bharadwaj attempting to salvage the album in vain.
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