aUDIO SCAN
Sami best in blue mood

IT is strange but light songs have a habit of sticking to people’s memory than serious ones. Try asking 10 persons which song of Adnan Sami comes to their mind first, and eight may list Lift kara de (at least that is the conclusion of a straw poll that I conducted).

What we tend to forget is that he is at his best when rendering sad, touching songs. As if to prove this point, Adnan has included only this type of songs in this compilation that has come to the market after he reduced weight drastically.

The only exception that can be cited is Salaam Walekum, but even that is a fun song only partially.

The mood is set early by the opener, Teri yaad aati hai, and is maintained through such songs as Koi rehta hai and Baarish.

Almost all songs have been penned by Sameer, except one each by Amjad Islam Amjad, Riaz-ur Rehman Sagar, Maqbool Khwaja and Adeem Hashmi.

All English lyrics have been written and performed by Sami, who has also composed and arranged the music of this album that he has dedicated to his son Azaan Sani Khan.

The red-on-black song index is nice to look at but it is almost impossible to read.

This is supposed to be the international debut film of Salman Khan. The less said about that the better. As far as music is concerned, it is one of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s less inspired creations. They cannot be accused of not trying. After all, coming up with the kind of music which can hold its own not only in Hindi but also in English is not easy. But in this bi-linguism, the soul of the music has suffered badly.

Yeh pyaar hai becomes That’s love in English without impressing one in either language. The same attempt is made in several other songs.

In Hindi the lyricist is Javed Akhtar and the main singer Shaan. But several new singers like Vikas Bhalla, Neha Pant and Nihira Joshi have also been given a chance.

The English songs have been written by Willard Carroll and Truth Hurts. One impressive song is Listen to the music which has been performed by Ali Larter (who happens to be the heroine of the film), Shaan and Truth Hurts.

Normally, we criticise cassette companies for leaving out names of some artistes from the credit line. Here, exactly the opposite is true. So many names have been printed on the dustcover that you cannot decipher them, unless you happen to have a microscope. — ASC