Let The Music Play<>document.write('Aelina,') Aelina, IndiaGlitz [Tuesday, July 11, 2006] |
| Wow, what a compilation! You can't help exclaiming it to yourself as soon as you come across this twin CD pack of one of the best compilations in recent times. A mix of Bollywood, Indi-pop, Paki-pop, US-pop and UK pop, 'Let The Music Play' is one of those albums that deserves to be in your music collections. With just about all the ingredients that are required to make a perfect assemble of songs, LTMP never once looses pace and mixes up different genres of songs well to result in a complete album. Bollywood Let's start with Bollywood numbers first. When you see songs from men like A.R. Rehman, Salim-Sulaiman, Sandeep Chowta and Himesh Reshammiya on the credits, you know that there is something special on the cards. And why not when you have superb tracks from 'Rang De Basanti' like the rocking title song 'Rang De Basanti' by Daler Mehendi and Chitra, back-to-school pop track 'Masti Ki Paathshala' by new finds Mohamed Aslam and Naresh Iyer, revolutionary track with a difference, 'Khalbali', sung with aplomb by Rahman himself along with Mohamed Aslam and the best song of the enterprise, 'Roobaroo', where Rahman and Naresh Iyer joined hands to come up with magic. No wonder one can't help but admire the work of Prasoon Joshi, the lyricist, who is the common thread along most of the songs from RDB! Apart from 'Rang De Basanti', there is some rocking action in the form of 'Kaal' soundtrack by Salim-Sulaiman with all the three hits 'Tauba Tauba' [original and remix], 'Kaal Dhamaal' and 'Nassa Nassa' (by Anand Raj Anand) coming one after another. Yes, they indeed are rocking all over again and the effect is doubled when Sandeep Chowta's biggest hit 'Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo' [Dum] makes a place for itself in the album with as much as elan Rehman's 'Wo Kisna Hai' [Kisna]! With Rehman, Salim-Sulaiman and Chowta having so much fun on the musical scene, how could Reshammiya be far behind? After all he is the trump card for any music company today and hence SONY too includes some of his hit tracks from 'Aitraaz' like 'Gela Gela Gela - The Dance On The Beach Mix' and 'I Want To Make Love (The Passion Mix)'. And yes, the songs belong to the times when Reshammiya was purely known as a composer and had never held the mike in front of his face! There is more to come from him in the form of other hits like 'Mohabbat Hai Mirchi' [Chura Liya Hai Tumne] and the remix version of 'O Soniya' [Ishq Hai Tumse]. In addition, the music company ensures that the colorful 'holi' number 'Rang Dalo' reaches out to audiences through LTMP at least since when it was released as a part of 'Banaras - A Mystic Love Story', there were hardly any buyers with both the music and the movie going unnoticed. Indi and Paki pop If a record compilation of Bollywood hits wasn't enough, there is more to come in the form of pop numbers from India and Pakistan. For the lovers of 'bhangra pop', there is a treat in store with Hans Raj Hans' hit 'Aaja Nach Le' and Amar Arshi's dance floor favorite 'Kaala Chashma'! Are you ready to hit the dance floor already? If so then pump up the volume since after a while you would have some soothing sound in the form of Strings' 'Dhaani'. And if you are willing to get into the groove again, there is return of Chowta with his Mallika in 'Mallika I Hate You'! With one feeling absolutely content already, the world of music couldn't have appeared better as Kailash Kher is heard all over again in his hottest track ever 'Teri Deewani'. Western pop With so much happening already in Bollywood and Indi/Paki pop scene, it was just fitting to have a dose of Western pop as well. This is something that you find in small, but apt dose, as the selection of 5 songs here is superb as well. First to come is Groove Armada's 'I See You Baby' that also graced the promotion of Kaizad Gustad's nightmarish 'Boom'. 'Don't Be Shy', a superhit already follows soon thereafter while Swami's 'Desi Rock' is a song to hit the dance floor again. It is time to rejoice when two of the biggest hits this year, Shamur's 'Let The Music Play' [in a way a title song for the album] and Sona Family's 'Glassy' mark and end of the album. Wow, what an experience! Though one exclaimed in a similar manner at the beginning of the album on just reading the song titles, it is nothing but an endearing experience on actually hearing each of the 25 tracks one after another. A complete 'paisa vasool' album by all means, it deserves all the sales it is currently registering and has in it to sustain itself on the stands for weeks to come due to a lethal combination of quantity and quality! Go for it and you will keep smiling while the album is on! Rating: ****1/2 http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/albumreview/3059.ht ml |
