Kahaani - Movie Review

In Aami Shotti Bolchi, Vishal-Shekhar conjure the sights, smells and a feeling of Kolkata within their sounds, driven by Vishal's spunky writing. Light jazz helps reduce into swing music having a simplistic five-note lick playing through Usha Uthup's racy lines for example: Dil ka bazaar hai, thoda bizzare hai...Kolkata khwaaishon, armaano ka aachaar hai. While Usha uses her inimitable zest to create every line her very own, Bollywood's first encounter with new-age metal finally comes through - although inside a special appearance - as Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy, our prime-spirited singer from the indie hardcore metal band Scribe, menacingly growls the chorus amongst a rain storm of altered guitars and thumping drums.

For Piya Tu Kaahe Rootha Re, Javed Bashir, ace singer of Pakistan's Mekaal Hasan Band, throws expansive aalaaps against a synth-bass intro which will help remind you from the lead-directly into Bon Jovi's Living On The Prayer. Below is really a recipe for any thorough adrenaline hurry - a sparkling guitar lick and Javed's robust classical singing rivalling the power of crunchy energy guitar chords. Just like a smooth relay run, instruments for example piano, tabla and bass dissolve into sections to script an excellent illustration of rock-classical fusion.

The 3rd ace up V-S's sleeve may be the dreamy guitars and spacious synthesisers-driven Ekla Cholo Re. Who easier to provide a classy baritone treatment to Rabindranath Tagore's epic song than Large B in the best Bangla accent? Amitabh Bachchan charms the wits from you together with his vocals which are as soothing like a well-aged bourbon. The reverb-powered arrangement buries itself in to the background as though to allow Bachchan seize control and weave his miracle with two verses, one each in Bengali and Hindi.

The standard divide between these three amounts and also the other three is very apparent. The title song Kahaani, using its two versions - sang by KK and Shreya Ghoshal correspondingly - begins off being an overtly sweet tune before switching to some hummable chorus: Mera in raahon se hai rishta koi, anjaana sa puraana kissa koi...In se jo poocho toh kahenge, yeh meri kahaani. While both KK and Ghoshal prosper to help keep an unremarkable track alive, it's the latter's acoustic version which makes some impact. For Tore Bina, a varied track voiced by Sukhwinder Singh, the hitch is the fact that lots of similar-sounding tunes happen to be bashed in the indie rock scene.

With this particular album, in some way, Vishal-Shekhar's decade-lengthy connection to director Sujoy Ghosh appears to possess come full circle, as unlike the lukewarm Home Delivery and also the passable Aladin, it's three truly stand-out tunes, just like their first venture Jhankaar Beats had. Good music certainly has its own method of being bold one of the regular.