While I usually stay away from commenting on other reviews (since I try my hand at reviews myself), this one's a complete shocker. Sample this,
"Bonny Chakravarty and Mohammad Aslam outrageous vocal outburst collage effectively in rendering out Javed Akhtar's thematically conceived wordings but the track is entirely situational work" -- What is this 'situational' thingy? Arent most songs supposedly based on some situation within the movie? So, why single a few tracks you do not like as 'situational'? "This mellifluous track has contours of mellowed stringed instrumental flows (guitar, vibraphone, jal-tarang) collaging brilliantly in rendering out a soulful backdrop for a perfect rhythm-divine track" -- I give up...there are so many collaging and melli-something here that this sentence is incomprehensible. And '*rhythm*-divine'? For Jash-e-bahara? C'mon! "Bela Shende's mellifluously driven vocals fails to find the optimum combination of compatible wordings and binding musical works that could have surely made it a worthy situational track." -- Should I even say something here? "Javed Ali's "Jashn-E-Baharaa" is the only chartbusting surprise element in the album while rest of the tracks is classy but situational or mediocre in terms of compositions or presentations" -- Classy, but situational or mediocre? What does that even mean? "The album is expected to drawing major attention for its magnanimous appeal and hi-profile face value but won't be able to convert its big hype into grand commercial success" -- Magnanimous appeal? Just what does that really mean? And, in particular, why this mega-sized obsession to guess or predict the commercial success of a film or soundtrack in a review? Isn't a review meant to communicate the reviewers' opinion on a piece of work? Why are Joginder and Satyajit bent on mixing the past/ present/ future successes of Ashutosh with the OST of JA? Karthik --- In [email protected], "Chord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess both sides need to be shown. > > http://www.glamsham.com/music/reviews/22-music-review-jodha-akbar- > 010815.asp > > It's quite disconcerting that this reviewer calls In Lamho Ke and Man > Mohanna "Mediocre, Uninspiring, Lacklustre, Average". I really really > wish people could take the context of the film in mind when reviewing > music instead of just posting knee-jerk reactions to whether the music > is catchy or not. > > There seems to be a more evident split between classes and masses with > this album, which I had partially expected. If you check the comments > section under the rediff review, you will know what I mean. > Unfortunately, this is not what Rahman wanted as he had hoped that the > music would cater to a wide audience. >
