Delhi 6 - Music Review

Delhi 6 is Rakesh Omprakash Mehra's 3rd flick after Aks and RDB. Like his other two, this one's rocking too and how! Let's wait and see how the movie matches this colossal score!

Aarti (Tumre Bhavan Mein) and Arziyan

Great way to start the album with offerings to Almighty.Both are awesome numbers sung by (Rekha Bharadwaj and et. al) & (Javed Ali and Kailash Kher) respectively.

Bhor Bhaye

I think this is ARR's first full fledged Hindustani classical number. This should definitely be liked by old and new alike interested in Classical numbers. For ordinary ears, it's soothing though.

Genda Phool

Rekha Bharadwaj is one of my fav singers ever since i heard Omkara's Namak number. She has that kind of a voice which can ease a stressful mind instantly. This is one of my fav numbers from the soundtrack. I know ARR believes in the oxymoron 'less is more' phrase in turns of his music but now he's started with short numbers as well (This song is just 2.5 mins long). The last number in this 'genre' is Yuvvraaj's 'Manmohini'. Although other tracks in this pack are not that long except for Arziyan, this particular number kept wanting me for more! This is already my ring tone!! hehe..

Dil Gira Dafatan

Nice slow number.I love first 5 sec of this track which reminds me of the latin-american style of music. Ash King's voice has a soothing effect backed nicely by Chinmayee. The background orchestra is too good. This should take some hearings to be likened by one and all. And to know that he doesn't know a word in Hindi and has sung this, makes me like it more!

Delhi 6

Title track. A rap/hip-hop/lazy number with great vocals by Blaaze, Benny, Vivenne, et.al. A Uber cool one! Instantly likeable.

Noor

A less than a minute soothing philosophical phrasing by Amitabh Bachchan. Nice one.

Hey Kaala Bandar

A Fast and Fun song with some of course funny lyrics. Prasoon gets a chance to display his wild side in this one.

Rehna Tu

Old habits die hard. Yes, ARR has it. He always keeps some of the best tracks to himself. And does complete justice to them! You should like this. One of the trend setting numbers.

and My favourite Masakali

The First-Best song of 2009. Absolutely a show stopper number sung brilliantly by Mohit Chauhan. Perky lyrics in sync with music. ARR seems to make full utilization of the Accordion he bought in Hong Kong, right from Aye Hairate (guru) and then followed it up by Zindagi (Yuvvraaj). The way Mohit plays with the words, 'Tamanna', 'Manmaani' just shows his versatality and his ease with words. For me,this is Mohit's Best song.

This is a wholesome entertainment album with a song for everybody spanning almost all genres. Being it classical, hip hop, rap, instant-likeables, slow ones, you name it, you got it. It's all right here!

Go ahead and take yours! Great way to start 2009. An absolute must have!