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'K.I.' grosses 100 crores worldwide in opening week

Eros International has announced a record opening of Sajid Nadiadwala's KAMBAKKHT ISHQ. The film has grossed Rs. 100 crores worldwide in its first week, making it one of the most successful openings in Indian cinema.

KAMBAKKHT ISHQ has grossed Rs. 70 crores in India (Rs. 42 crores nett) and Rs. 21 crores overseas with music & digital platforms grossing Rs. 10 crores. The film has been produced at a cost of Rs. 62 crores, including print and advertisement cost.

Love Aaj Kal’s music rocks!

Love Aaj Kal is a film I can’t wait to see. I also couldn’t wait to get my hands on the music because Pritam and Imtiaz Ali created some memorable tunes (we still like them) when they got together for Jab We Met. Love Aaj Kal’s music is fun, vibrant, romantic (of course) with bhangra and hip hop flavours with a tinge of country/folk and rock. Also, Pritam had to compose for the Pyaar 1965 track and the Love 2009 track, so hats off to him for pulling it off. No track on the album is intolerable. Our favourites are Aahun Aahun, Twist, Chor Bazari and Aaj Din Chadeya. This is the best album we have heard since Delhi-6 and Dev D. Go buy it!

Unlike Jab We Met, you may not like the songs instantly but listen to them a few times and you will be hooked.

Twist is something we are all addicted to by now. The sapera been tune fits in perfectly. Neeraj Shridhar’s vocal energy is unmatched. The rap vocals are reminiscent of Apache Indian. Pritam is brilliant with hip hop dance numbers and this one is no exception. It will set the dance floor on fire; even make you want to dance in your seat! The lyrics are very Punjabi like rounak-shounak, wicked-shicked, aankh-vaank, daaru-shaaru, etc. the step is easy too and Saif looks super cute in the video. Do the Twist! It’s sure to be a rage at discos.

Chor Bazari has a nice guitar tune. It’s a little like the relatively unknown but lovely Chori Chori Ankhiyaan from Race, also because Sunidhi Chauhan and Neeraj Shridhar are the singers. It’s a chilled out number. You imagine people having a beach or poolside party replete with thatched roofs, beer and summery dresses when you listen to the song.

Main Kya Hoon has KK adding his magical touch to it. The beats are almost electronic, so the song seems out of place on the album and it’s like something you have heard before.

Aahun Aahun is another instant favourite with its guitar prelude (makes it a great ring tone). Love the Punjabi and tu aaja dil janiya bit (what you hear in the promo) throughout the song. It’s a great club track too. It’s a fast track with hip hop and Punjabi flavours. Pritam has done a superb job with this super energetic number you want to listen over and over again. Neeraj Shridhar and the Punjabi singer are excellent.

Aaj Din Chadeya, sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is soothing after the upbeat and exhausting Aahun Aahun. It’s a sweet and pleasant tune that will grow on you. I guess it is part of the ‘Pyaar 1965’ track in the film. It conjures pictures of a turbaned Saif admiring Harleen in the mustard fields of Punjab.

Thoda Thoda Pyaar has the reliable Sunidhi Chauhan on the vocals. It has a nineties feel to it, something Madhuri Dixit would dance to. A typical shaadi ka gaana that’s not an assault to your ears.

Ye Doorian has a serene start with Mohit Chauhan’s calming vocals. The song’s likeable but it isn’t magical like Jab We Met’s Tum Se Hi which practically launched Mohit Chauhan. It’s about lovers missing each other; wanting to erase the distance between them.

The remixes of Aahun Aahun, Twist and Chor Bazari are nice. They are simple, nothing over-elaborate.

Rating: 3.5 on 5
Label: Eros Music
Composer: Pritam
Lyricist: Irshad Kamil
Singers: KK, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Neeraj Shridhar, Mohit Chauhan

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

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