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By Joginder Tuteja, December 29, 2003 - 16:21 IST
After a series of Pak bashing movies, Indo-Pak bhai bhai seems to be the IN thing today. Saawan Kumar's 'Dil Pardesi Ho Gaya' dealt with the love story of an Indian boy and a Pakistani girl. Pooja Bhatt's 'Paap' has its majority of songs set to tunes by Pakistani composers. And now 'I Proud To An Indian', a Sohail Khan production directed by debutante Puneet Sira, tells the story of an Indian immigrant in the foreign shores who joins hands with a guy from Pakistani origin and revolts against the local Whites. Daboo Malik and K.C. Loy compose the music.
Though I-PTBAI is a full blown musical album with 7 songs in total, none of the songs hold more than a minute or two appearance in the movie. Most of them are just used in the background to convey various moods in the movie. 'Ajnabee Tum Lagte Nahi' is a soft'n'subtle romantic track with nice melody. Composed by Daboo Malik who also writes the lyrics with Jay Verma, this love song by Babul Supriyo and Sunidhi Chauhan may not go all the way to be a chartbuster but is nevertheless easy to ears. This is the reason why an instrumental of the same too makes an appearance.
'Khata Nahi', in first hearing seems to be the work of some Pakistani sufi singer but on checking the album cover for the credits, one is surprised to see a newcomer Krishna doing the job. An intense song composed by Daboo Malik, it is at best situational and doesn't go anywhere beyond that.
Ditto for 'Aaye Hum Aaye' which has a Rehman'ish' touch about it. Composed and written by K.C. Loy, this one is a song about the cry of revolt and challenge through the vocals of Kunal Ganjawalla (who has been getting more and more singing assignments in the last few weeks). Both these tracks are strictly OK due to their situational nature.
'Khayalan Wich' is the best track of the album that makes a rather belated appearance. Composed by O.Z. Jkeyz with music by K.C.Loy and written by Jay Verma and Late Harcharan Dhillon, this song has a beautiful rhythm sung to perfection by Rithika. A Punjabi love track that has a folksy touch, its soft tones make you want for more and your request is answered when the track is repeated again towards the end of the album.
'Sagayee', written by Deeplali Deep, sung by Meshi and composed by Xinc, is a good shaddi-byaah track that has a rich traditional Punjabi flavor with authentic vocals that seem to be of professional wedding singer.
From hereon the album goes downhill with two pop songs in quick succession - 'Andheron Ko Cheer Ke' (Kunal Ganjawalla) and 'Kaali Raat' (Srinivasan). Both the tracks are composed as a pop song rather than a movie soundtrack and are at maximum - 'just average'! Purely situational (as like most of the other tracks of I-PTBAI), they fail to impress.
'Nach Kudi Punjabi', as the title suggests, is an addition to the list of Punjabi 'mauj-masti' tracks that have been composed aplenty in recent Bollywood flicks. It was another day when such songs garnered much craze but not any more as the novelty factor has just been lost. If in every second movie one has to listen to at least one such song, then how long can one keep appreciating such music? And the reason is not just 'I-PTBAI' in such a scenario but all other flicks that result in overdose of such Punjabi bhangra tracks that have lost much of their sheen in recent times.
I-PTBAI starts off well and promises much but turns mediocre as the album progresses. Since the movie is anyhow not been touted as a musical and there is absence of any single track that can be the USP of the movie, the music sales will face an uphill task at the music stores.
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