Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Cash:Music Review ( Worth every Penny!Even if you download it illegally!)

I have been listening to the latest offering from the Vishal-Shekhar duo, "Cash".
I have been a fan of the music directors since their first ever effort "Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi". But I'm sure everyone will agree that "Jhankaar Beats" was the movie that brought them fame and gave them true recognition.
But I always thought them to be the duo who churned out good music but with varying effects of success. I always noticed that only a few of their songs or albums actually made it to the top of the popularity charts. Their work was seemingly inconsistent in comparison to Shankar-Ehsan-Loy, A.R.Rahman,Pritam or even recently Shantanu Moitra( From the current lot) . I dont take the names of music directors Anu Malik or Jatin-Lalit as the former has seemingly given up making quality music while the latter had a spat and are no longer together.
For the past 2 years since 2005 though, they have been on a roll. Which brings me back to Cash.After their tepid "Ta Ra Rum Pum" I was suprised by the amount of energy that is infused into every song in the album. A lot of passion hardwork and a bit of stolen American tunes later , the product is , in my opinion quite excellent.
One expected that after the brilliant "Dus" album, they would have to come out with something that was on par or even better than it. With Cash , they seem to have just got it right.
I would say that it does bode well for Anubhav 'Dus' Sinha's latest offering.. I hope it will not be as bad as the much hyped Dus. ( Desi 24 version?? Egad!)
Listening to the tracks, I especially liked the title track , Naughty Naughty and Naa Puchho. although i must have to say that I would have thought that Alisha Chinoy would have been a better singer of the Naughty Naughty song.

Phew! That was tough!
Disclaimer:The observations made are based on the writer's own opinion.
Please tell me if you found this article to be fair. Do suggest some improvements.

Broken Promises

Well its been 7 months since my last post and i seem to have done it again! I have not cared to update my blog and thus have failed to live up to my promise. I think the main part that bothers me is that I don't think anyone else reads my stuff. Anyway .. i shall soon begin writing for myself...I like my blog!