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We Are Family Music Review

Music Directors: Shankar Mahadevan-Ehsaan Noorani-Loy Mendonca

Lyricists: Irshad Kamil and Anvita Dutt Guptan

Singers: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Anushka Manchanda, Suraj Jagan, Akruti Kakkar, Vishal Dadlani, Shankar Mahadevan, Sonu Niigaam and Shreya Ghoshal

Rating: **1/2

Filmmaker Karan Johar and composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy have always belted out chartbusters, so the expectations from “We Are Family”, Johar’s latest production venture, was high. But, though the album offers few melodious tracks, there is nothing extraordinary. Continue reading We Are Family Music Review

Entity Paradigm [eP] – Shor Macha (Audio/Video Review)

Entity Paradigm (EP) has finally hit the masses with their yearned awaited new single “Shor Macha”, sponsored by Djuice. This is one of the biggest booming and victorious come backs for a band in the chronicle of Music especially in our fragment of the sphere. This single is deemed upon as heavily patriotic and immensely provoking one, while making the audience to cogitate over various issues and relating our radiant antiquity, gloomy present and a gleaming future subsequent. Entity Paradigm disclosed their come back in 2009 while playing live at the reputed event of Lums Olympaid. Continue reading Entity Paradigm [eP] – Shor Macha (Audio/Video Review)

Hello Darling

Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty

Lyricists: Shabbir Ahmed, Ashiesh Pandit and Kumaar

Singers: Javed Jaffrey, Akruti Kakkar, Antara Mitra, Richa Sharma, Ritu Pathak, Rana Mazumder, Sunidhi Chauhan, Suzanne D’Mello, Shweta Pandit and Priyadarshini

Rating: **

Though Pritam has many chartbusters to his credit, the composer fails to create an impact with the soundtrack of “Hello Darling”. The film’s music lacks freshness and most of the songs have a ‘heard before’ feel. Continue reading Hello Darling

Zaain’s next song in store is going to be a Patriotic Song

After giving hits like “Chue Chue” and “Saiyaan Saiyaan” Pakistan’s young yet talented singer Zaain ul Abideen is all set to release another song. This time it is a patriotic one.

What keyed Zaain up to alter from his standard romantic love ones and compose something for the country? The answer is very simple. He wanted to express his chagrin over the present circumstances of the country “He has been cooped up at home for two days because of the ongoing violence in Karachi. And then whenever he turned TV on he would hear the same things, violence, terrorism, flood, plane crash, he got really frustrated and compose this song to get his frustration out” This song has been written, composed and sung by Zaain. Zaain is done with the recording of the song and it will be on-aired very soon. Continue reading Zaain’s next song in store is going to be a Patriotic Song

Noori – Hey Ya: Sneak Preview of New Single from Upcoming Album

As promised in the previous vlog, Noori continues to share the journey of producing their third album. What we know until now is that the album will be released sometime in September. The band also clarified that it is not one of those ‘upcoming album’ we have been hearing about since the last five years.

However, now we get to see what the band is REALLY upto!

The video being shared is a jam session for the song titled “Hey Ya”. This brand new single will be one of the flagship songs from the upcoming album, hence double the excitement about sharing it.

And this is just the beginning, as there’s a lot more in store for Noori fans. You don’t want to miss out on this interactive countdown to noori’s third album!

Check out the sneak preview of “Hey Ya”!

Aisha Music Review

Singers: Amit Trivedi, Anushka Manchanda, Neuman Pinto, Nikhil D’Souza, Raman Mahadevan, Samrat Kaushal, Anusha Mani, Ash King and Tochi Raina

Music Director: Amit Trivedi

Lyricist: Javed Akhtar

Rating: ****

With the stupendous music of “Dev D”, Amit Trivedi proved his prowess and now with the soundtrack of forthcoming film “Aisha”, he has reaffirmed that he is a young composer to look out for.
Continue reading Aisha Music Review

Music Review: Lafangey Parindey

Film: Lafangey Parindey
Music Director: R. Anandh
Lyricist: Swanand Kirkire
Singers: Ronit Sarkar, Mohit Chauhan, Shail Hada, Anushka Manchanda, Shilpa Rao and Suraj Jagan

R. Anandh, known for composing jingles for ad films, returns to film music direction after 13 years with Yash Raj Films’ Lafangey Parindey. His first film as a composer was 1997 movie Zor. Continue reading Music Review: Lafangey Parindey

Jay Sean collaborates with Nicki Minaj – 2012

British R&B/pop singer Jay Sean & Nicki Minaj party like there’s no tomorrow on “2012“. This collaboration will be the official first single from Sean’s upcoming fourth album in stores on November 2nd. An unfinished version of the track was leaked to the Internet last week but here we have it now in its entirety and fully mastered. There was no featured artist in that original recording and this Nicki Minaj collaborate was set to be just a remix. However, it seems they thought it was too good and decided to release it as the main version. Jay and Nicki have recently shot the music video in Los Angeles and it’s slated for premiere on August 8. Continue reading Jay Sean collaborates with Nicki Minaj – 2012

Lafangey Parindey

Music Director: R. Anandh

Lyricist: Swanand Kirkire

Singers: Ronit Sarkar, Mohit Chauhan, Shail Hada, Anushka Manchanda, Shilpa Rao and Suraj Jagan

Rating: ***

R. Anandh, known for composing jingles for ad films, returns to film music direction after 13 years with Yash Raj Films’ “Lafangey Parindey”. His first film as a composer was 1997 movie “Zor”.

The music of the film is simple, easy to understand, yet different. The album boasts of six originals and one remix version.
Continue reading Lafangey Parindey

Atif Admits He Recorded a Punjabi Track with G n’ R

Atif has made available more information to the fans about his upcoming project “The Dreamer Awakes“. As mentioned earlier, he already has recorded one track which is a punjabi single and his own composition. Continue reading Atif Admits He Recorded a Punjabi Track with G n’ R