The phrases I really enjoyed were the “ No No No…” and “They throwing eenta, we throwing rocks.” Otherwise, the other portions of the song did not really work for me. The composition is catchy in parts, but the situational dialogue parts make it digress in intervals, making the catchiness intermittent and sporadic. And it has turned out quite well, but the song just didn’t fit together for me as a whole. Here, the composers had to take in the street play aspect, and the Holi aspect, while composing the song. Amitabh Bhattacharya provides funny, conversational lyrics, and the use of the Urdu word for ‘Geography’ - ‘Jugraafiya’ - is interesting.Īnother track with fun lyrics is Basanti No Dance, a situational song that is used in the film as the backdrop of a street play the students are performing on Holi. The singing by Udit and Shreya is great it is refreshing to hear Udit after so long, with the same vivacious quality in his voice that made him the top singer in the 90s.
The hookline is quite similar to the “ Aga jhannanala” portion from the ‘Sairat’ title track, another case of structural similarity in Ajay-Atul’s songs, the same way the hook of the ‘Dhadak’ title track was similar to the ‘ Mere dil mein jagah khuda ki khaali thi.‘ refrain of ‘Sapna Jahan’ (Brothers). The second interlude too, follows the standard strings-and-brass template of Ajay-Atul’s. But, as mentioned before, the tune and complexity of the antara is enough to keep you hooked. The antara is interesting in that it is a string of notes that seems neverending, but I found Udit’s antara better than Shreya’s, because Shreya sounds a bit uncomfortable to the ears with the unbelievably high pitch of her portion. From that peak, the notes are dropped into a signature Ajay-Atul strings section coupled with a woodwind. In the mostly situational album, with its lyrics propelling it more than halfway, the only song with any semblance of universality happens to be Jugraafiya, a delightful and cheerful romantic duet, delivered to the point by Udit Narayan and Shreya Ghoshal, a duo we haven’t heard together in a proper duet song (obviously ‘Radha’ from ‘Student of the Year’ doesn’t count) in a long time! The song starts with a signature Ajay-Atul mandolin piece, followed by the melody which kicks in at a low pitch, only for the next line to go higher, until the cross-line and hookline lead to the musical peak, in typical Ajay-Atul style. The album is a short and situational one, with five songs, so let’s see how Ajay-Atul deliver as per the film’s theme! Bahl’s previous two films have had music by Amit Trivedi, but here, surprisingly, he chooses Ajay-Atul, maybe due to the setting of the film in a rural backdrop, and Ajay-Atul’s music rides high on folk influences. The film revolves around the life of mathematician Anand Kumar, who helps prepare 30 brilliant but underprivileged students for their entrance exams for Indian Institutes of Technology. The film is directed by Vikas Bahl and produced by Nadiadwala Grandsons Entertainment, Phantom Films and Reliance Entertainment.
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