Music: MEET BROS. ANJJAN, RASHID KHAN, SUNEEL DARSHAN, PRASHANT SINGH, RAYYAN AMEEN & MUMZY Lyrics:…  

<b>Music: </b> MEET BROS. ANJJAN, RASHID KHAN, SUNEEL DARSHAN, PRASHANT SINGH, RAYYAN AMEEN & MUMZY<BR> <b>Lyrics: </b> KUMAAR, RASHID KHAN, SHAKEEL AZMI, MEHMOOD ARFAT, TASHA TAH, YUSUF KHAN, PARAS CHAURASIA & SUNEEL DARSHAN<BR> <b>Music Label: </b> SONY MUSIC<BR><BR> <b>Expectations: </b><BR><BR> A Suneel Darshan film in the past went both ways: hit music alternated with undistinguished songs. This time, since he is launching his son, someone who knows his track-record expects a nice soundtrack. <BR><BR> <b>Music: </b> <BR><BR> However, the music is nothing to write about. The title-track <i><b>'Karle Pyaar Karle'</b></i> (Benny Dayal-Palak Muchhal- Monali Thakur) could belong to any '70s or early '80s film, no questions asked. That automatically presupposes a certain musical, lyrical and vocal calibre that this superficially catchy love track lacks despite the best efforts of the singers. <BR><BR> <i><b>'Teri Saanson Mein'</b></i> (Arijit Singh-Palak Muchhal-Amit Mishra) and <i><b>'Tanhaai'</b></i> (Arijit Singh-Rayyan Ameen-Amnah Noor) both find Arijit trying to vocal Atif Aslam, which is baffling in every sense of the term! The songs are executed like Nadeem-Shravan numbers in their phrasing and orchestration, which is not surprising as N-S were the filmmaker's favourites. <BR><BR> The former partly salvages the album along with <i>'Mutasir'</i> (in which Javed Ali once again does what he has long mastered - his Sonu Nigam cloning). However, the lyrics of these songs are not exactly appealing, and the word <i> 'mutasir'</i> is the latest in the long list of incomprehensible Urdu words used, as far as the common man and Gen Y are concerned! <BR><BR> A surprisingly (given the creative level of the soundtrack) well-written song is <i><b>'O Darling'</b></i> (Amit Mishra-Shashaa Tirupathi). But with the talented Shakeel Azmi at the helm of the imaginative wordplay (<i>'Dil mera Dilli/ Tu sarkaar hai'</i>), that is not really as astonishing, never mind its done-to-death tune and cacophonous sound. <BR><BR> The remaining two tracks of the album are pure (and poor) noise, the worst being <i><b>'Sona Sona Akkha Nu'</b></i> (Yusuf Khan, Paras Chaurasia, Suneel Darshan) that is a strict no-no as listen-worthy songs go. <i><b>'Kurbaan'</b></i> (Tasha Tah, Mumzy) pretends to have a modicum of melody but the uneasy 'setting' between the lyrics and 'music' unsettle this attempt at a novel melody. <BR><BR> <b>Overall: </b><BR><BR> A below-average soundtrack that tries to mix and match contemporary with the '90s style, which is like a complete and unpalatable potpourri, for no two decades have seen so much difference in content as the millennium and that era. And what's with Suneel Darshan's name being an add-on in the lyrics credits of all songs and music credits for all except one? <BR><BR> <b>Our Pick: </b><BR><BR> <i>Teri Saanson Mein, Mutasir</i>