I cannot stop talking about these three new Hindi movie soundtracks that were all released recently. If you have not already done so, please buy the CD’s, like now. They are all excellent and do a great service in restoring the health of popular India music (read related post here). Dev-D has a song called “Emotional Atyachar”, in two versions. One is called a “Brass-band Version” and the other is the “Rock Version”. Both are a work of mad, riotous genius. It’s so much fun that I have it on repeat since the last two days. The “brass-band” version of the song is a off-the-hook sonic mash-up with hilariously over-the-top, loud and cacophonous Indian wedding bass-band sounds. Unfortunately, you will only “get” the song’s lyrical cleverness if you are a native Hindi speaker and you really have to be a native North-Indian at that to derive much fun out of the brass-band craziness. For additional fun, check out the video of this song. It two fake fake Elvis, and the protagonist exaggeratedly drunk and lurching around comically in a wedding.
Delhi-6 has two numbers that stand out. One is “Dil Hua Dafatan” and the other is “Masakali”. “Dil Hua Dafatan” has simple, beautiful and delicate banjo in the backgound and a small section with a plainative instrument that sounds vaguely Chinese in origin (can someone identify it for me?). The lyrics of “Masakali”, by Prasoon Joshi, are brilliant. Delhi-6 should cement Rahman’s status as one of the best composers in India. It’s a beautiful musical journey that will reward the listener after multiple listens, as is usually the case with his music. In “Lucky By Chance“, there are echos of Shankar-Ehsan-Loy’s previous work but it’s still a very good album. Standout tracks are “Yeh Zindagi Bhi” and “Baawre”.
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