Kambakkht Ishq music sucks

What is being touted as the biggest release this year and the project that is going to salvage the dwindling fortunes of its mega-star actors Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor- Kambakkht Ishq has done the unthinkable in its mad rush for attention. The music is out, and sure it got the attention of StarBoxOffice but is it worth the clamour?

Kambakkht Ishq looks like a follow-up to Tashan, but the music in that was so much better. In KI, from the very first track, Om mangalam (sung by KK, Sunidhi Chauhan), to the last one, Welcome to Hollywood (chorus), music director Annu Malik foresaw the project as his big ticket into Sylvester Stallone’s music rack and so has belted out tracks so loud, so screechy, that maybe Stallone would play them while in the ring, thrashing some poor pugilist.

Bebolicious actress Kareena even has a song in her name (holy mother) called Bebo. In it, singer Alisha Chinai writhes and swishes to announce Bebo’s dil on sale for the right suitor. Kareena chips into the track with her guffaw and seconds Alisha’s prompt. The track has a Jimmy Jimmy aaja aaja hangover from the eighties. Akshay gets his Punjabi munda track titled Lakh Lakh (sung by Neeraj Shridhar), which is a ghisa-pita dhol number. God knows how many drums were smashed, one thing is for sure, our eardrums hurt like Ganpati festival was around the corner. Shreya Ghosal glides in with the only love ballad on the album, Kyun where she is wondering about the state of the song, as much as we are, why?

Salim-Sulaiman guest compose Welcome to Hollywood, which is a dish-rag of a hip-hop-rap song. Utter crap.

All songs except the ballad, have their remix jodis (four extra faltu tracks) in the album, and if the deejay isn’t playing it on the console, make sure you bushwhack him to tune into these blasted tracks. For us, we’ll quickly make an exit the minute KI begins its assault.

Kambakkht Ishq

Music: Annu Malik, Salim-Sulaiman

Lyricist: Anvita Dutt Guptan

Singers: Alisha Chinai, KK, Neeraj Shridhar, Shreya Ghoshal, KK, Sunidhi Chauhan

Label: Eros Music

Genre: Film

CD Price: Rs149

World music in Shah Rukh's next

After the success of Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om, there's tremendous curiosity around Farah Khan's third project Happy New Year. While not much is known about the plot - except for the fact that it stars Shah Rukh Khan – Farah is looking to pull off a first of sorts with the music of the film.

At a a recent event when Farah Khan launched a new reality show, her co-judge and Main Hoon Na music director Anu Malik dropped hints about composing music for Happy New Year. "I have to laugh at Farah's jibes since I have to do the soundtrack for her next," Anu said. But this time Farah doesn't intend to stick only to the songs that feature in the film.

When we asked the director if Vishal-Shekhar have a reason to worry despite scoring a chartbusting album in OSO, she said, "I am looking at a completely different style of music for Happy New Year".

Farah added, "The movie requires a variety of sounds – which is why I don't intend on sticking to one composer. I hope Vishal-Shekhar, Anu and all the people I approach will help me on the music of the film". Farah added, "Bhangra Pop artiste Sukhbir might also do a special track for the film."

Speaking on the film's music, Farah further revealed, "I plan to go the World Music way for Happy New Year, as the script demands an international sound. The album will be more of an OST comprising a compilation of original and purchased tracks - as they do for motion picture scores in Hollywood".

Prior to Farah, Sanjay Gupta has experimented with the idea of having multiple composers in one film.