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Film: "Cheeni Kum"; 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 the Reshammiyas and Maliks.
Here's a clear
winner! "Cheeni kum" is already on air and it has generated great
response. Shreya Ghoshal goes solo in this track and amazes everyone
with her sweet, innocent and melodic voice. The song is a great
romantic piece that suits the theme of the movie. T. Ilayaraja's music
is hummable and when combined with Ghoshal's rendition results in
wonders.
Continuing the romantic mood is the next song, "Baatein
hawa" sung by Shreya. The teamwork is great without forgetting the
pleasant lyrics by Manoj Tapadia and Sameer.
After hearing these two songs, you can't picture anyone else for the female voice because one grows accustomed to Shreya.
Shreya
takes over "Jaane do na" too, another romantic piece with great results
again. With this song also, the maverick composer has created music
that gives you a feeling of being nice, pure and simple. A little
mischievous in its lyrics, the track is such that will take some time
to grow on listeners but will definitely after repeated hearings.
One
doesn't even mind if the song is approximately five and a half minutes
long because it's not the jarring music that everyone's coming out with.
"Sooni
Sooni", with Vijay Prakash behind the vocals, is a different version of
"Cheeni kum", probably picturised on Amitabh. Like its original, this
too is a good piece of music and Prakash is amazing with his pitch. Not
to forget that his voice suits the Big B's persona.
The movie is
not complete without the two instrumental tracks. "Melody saxophone"
goes first and is obviously saxophone at its best. Being a background
score, it's the kind that must be used on a situation developing some
interest. Plus, there's "Theme melody", which has the piano belting out
nice musical notes and combined with the other instruments to create a
'nice-to-hear' theme track.
After going through the album, one
really expects Ilayaraja to not pack his bags and leave for south again
but to stay on and create some more heart- warming soundtracks that
have been missing in Bollywood for quite long.
By Meghna Menon, Indo-Asian News Service
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