Album Name : Chalo Dilli
Artist : June Banerjee, Neeraj Shridhar, Kamal Heer, Natalie Di Luccio, Sukhwinder Singh, Raja Hasan
Music Director : Gourov Dasgupta, Anand Raj Anand, Sachin Gupta, Rohit Kulkarni, Roshan Balu
Lyricist : Manthan, Anand Raj Anand, Krishika Lulla, Shabbir Ahmed, Nisha Mascarenhas
Label : Eros Music
Genre : Bollywood
Like Raajneeti, Chalo Dilli also boasts of multiple music directors. Unlike Raajneeti, this ploy does not work out here. Like numerous other songs from the recent past, Chalo Dillihas a re-worked version of an old hit, which seems to be the talking point of the album. But if you are looking for something more, something enjoyable or something different, you’ll find it in another town, Example - Shor In The City.
Judging by its music, Chalo Dilli sounds like a budget production. Or maybe a hurried one. None of the songs really get into their groove, and as a listener you will want much, much more to give it a second chance. The music sounds like a collection of computer generated samples with a few live instruments thrown in here and there. The beats are tired and the whole album just drags through its songs. Lyrically too, there is nothing to repeat in your head and while decent moments are too few to mention, only the title song has something going for it. But not much.
’Laila O Laila’ is the track that may force this film to have its music exposed on TV/radio. Singer June Banerjee has a nice earthy Indian voice with good modulation. She is probably a good choice to tackle a classic like this but this new direction of the song is just too weak. It’s a song of seduction and this sentiment is totally absent, both in Banerjee’s voice and the music. Instead, there is a hint of a misplaced bhangra style chorus somewhere in the background!! Overall, it sounds like music director Gourov Dasgupta has no idea what seduction in a song sounds like.
Earlier I did mention that the title song could have something going for it. As one of the very few people who would have played this more than once, I now take it back. ‘Chalo Dilli’ is as limp and lame as the rest of the songs and even Raja Hasan’s acceptable singing can’t help it. The increasing list of ‘Dilli’ centric bollywood songs just found a new bottom.
Composer Sachin Gupta teams up with Neeraj Shridhar to give ‘Hi-5’, another song based on the city. It starts quite well actually but its attempt at being young, cool and hip are as original as its title.
The track ‘Matarghashtiya’ is even worse. Sukwinder struggles through deep lyrics like…
Yeh jeevan hai suffering
yeh jeevan kabhi safar hain
kabhi safar mein suffering
Kabhi suffering mein safar hain
Judging by its music, Chalo Dilli sounds like a budget production. Or maybe a hurried one. None of the songs really get into their groove, and as a listener you will want much, much more to give it a second chance. The music sounds like a collection of computer generated samples with a few live instruments thrown in here and there. The beats are tired and the whole album just drags through its songs. Lyrically too, there is nothing to repeat in your head and while decent moments are too few to mention, only the title song has something going for it. But not much.
’Laila O Laila’ is the track that may force this film to have its music exposed on TV/radio. Singer June Banerjee has a nice earthy Indian voice with good modulation. She is probably a good choice to tackle a classic like this but this new direction of the song is just too weak. It’s a song of seduction and this sentiment is totally absent, both in Banerjee’s voice and the music. Instead, there is a hint of a misplaced bhangra style chorus somewhere in the background!! Overall, it sounds like music director Gourov Dasgupta has no idea what seduction in a song sounds like.
Earlier I did mention that the title song could have something going for it. As one of the very few people who would have played this more than once, I now take it back. ‘Chalo Dilli’ is as limp and lame as the rest of the songs and even Raja Hasan’s acceptable singing can’t help it. The increasing list of ‘Dilli’ centric bollywood songs just found a new bottom.
Composer Sachin Gupta teams up with Neeraj Shridhar to give ‘Hi-5’, another song based on the city. It starts quite well actually but its attempt at being young, cool and hip are as original as its title.
The track ‘Matarghashtiya’ is even worse. Sukwinder struggles through deep lyrics like…
Yeh jeevan hai suffering
yeh jeevan kabhi safar hain
kabhi safar mein suffering
Kabhi suffering mein safar hain
I think I will rest my case now and go for a root canal.
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