A fair and thorough review. Because the album is so short and very situational in nature and having musical genres that are unusual for a bollywood album, I do agree that the album as a whole may have a hard time appealing universally, limiting its popularity only to refined music lovers and ARR fans.
But, I have an issue with what he said below: "There is, also, a lot of déjà vu. If Behne de comes off like a cross between Mera yaar mila de and Satrangi re, the prelude portions of Khili re bring to mind Kehne ko jashn-e-bahara hai, Kata kata (with its frenzied chorus and pounding percussion) is a reworking of the Azeem-o-shaan shahenshah template, and Beera is flavoured like the incantatory title track of Omkara." Again, I see no similarities when it comes to melody. Yes, perhaps the mood and feel of the songs he mentioned are similar, but then again, how many songs out there have similar moods and feels between various composers? Lots! Having a similar base sound and mood template or sharing the same raaga is NOT grounds for accusing Rahman of being repetitive! --- In [email protected], Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@...> wrote: > > http://www.desipundit.com/baradwajrangan/2010/05/01/between-reviews-head-games/ >
