Finally with the music of Rock On (SEL) the rock music has entered the Hindi music and in full force, soemthing started by RD Burman with dum maro dum in 1971. Now we have nearly all genre of Western music in Hindi, recently Jaane tu (title theme of same movie by ARR) was pure Jazz.
This movie album might sound like private album of Farhan Akhtar (director of the film) as he has sung 5 out of 9 songs, sounds like he is a die hard fan of Aerosmith and always wanted to have a band of his own.
The music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy is catchy and the song rock on immediately reminded me of background score (BGS) of Lakshya when Hritik and his troop is trying to vertical climb Tiger Hills. Actually this song is an expansion of Lakshya's BGS. But then the former also is SEL composition.
I find this version of Hindi Rock better then Himesh's naam hai tera. Of course when it is rock there would be comparison with Atif also and I leave that on audience.
Lyrics are on the softer side (Javed Akhtar Saab) and I think a harder version would not have got accepted by us. So Rock On..!!
Link to title theme (others can be retrieved from related videos):
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=PSu65R3xq4o&feature=related
Udne Ki Aasha
