When I heard Tumhi Ho Bandhu for the first time, the word Pritam immediately
came to my mind. Cocktail’s title seems
to be the latest entry playing on most of my friend’s mobile phones and rightly
so. Right from the first line, you know that this is a song that you want to
hear on repeat. Such is Kavita Seth’s voice that right from the first line sung
by her one wants to hear the song another time. Accompanied by Neeraj Shridhar,
the duo make you fall in love with the song doing absolute justice to the tempo
and lyrics. This song’s going to be on top of the charts for a quite some time.
I just hope Pritam hasn’t lifted this song from anywhere, would be a real mood
kill if he did (won’t be surprised if he did at the same time).
Daaru
Desi is peppy right from the word go (nice guitar intro).
Interesting and different lyrics accompanied by Benny Dayal vocals (wish he
would sing more songs) make this another song that you must have on your phone.
Also, a shout goes to the female vocalist who complements Benny very well. Two
songs down and I’ve already decided to watch this movie. Good job Pritam (fuck
knows how)
Yaariyan
is one of those songs that you can listen to when
you look outside the window of your home or car window (very much an on the
move song, the peaceful types). My expectations from the number went up a notch
when I read Shilpa Rao’s name below the name of the song and she doesn’t
disappoint. I don’t know who Mohan Kanan is, but whoever you are, thanks for
giving your voice to this song. 3 songs down and I wonder if this can be really
a work of art from the man we know as Pritam.
Song names seem to get weirder by the day; Second Hand Jawani gives you the exact
same feeling. Lyrics are even weirder than the name. If you’re the person who
likes what others don’t like then this song is for you. The female voice was
just not for my liking. Halfway into the song and you’ll hit next.
Pritam combines English and Hindi/Punjabi
lyrics in Tera Naam Japdi Phiran. The
English lyrics are the ones that you hear in any hip-hop number, heard one
you’ve heard all. This needs to change, fast. This song will play a lot in
gym’s I feel. The Hindi/Punjabi part of the song is the saving grace. Heard the
song twice and that was it.
Luttna starts off on such a sober note (good one that too) and midway into
the song the song gets so loud that you want to remove your headphones. Why
Pritam Why? (Started off so well). Song keeps moving from sober to loud and
back. Even if you download this one, I’ll give it 5 hearings max before you
delete it.
I liked Jugni,
I really did. Punjabi lyrics (can’t understand them but you like the language
regardless) being the main reason. Give it a listen.
The reprise version of Yaariyan sung by Sunidhi Chauhan and Arijit Singh doesn’t grab your
attention right from the start which the normal version does. But Sunidhi shows
what an accomplished singer she is. The best female singer in the industry at
the moment if you ask me, but there’s something missing in this one that makes
the original one better.
Luttna has a reprise version as well, and I give this one less than 5
hearings before you delete it. The soft part of the song is all that you want
to hear. Once the song goes loud you want to bang your head (different type of
head banging mind you). There will surely be a segment of the audience that
likes this song. Want to hear their side of the story.
Tera Naam Japdi Phiran has a’ Version 2.0’;
it’s just another song in the album if you ask me. Download this or the
original one, won’t make a difference.
Angrezi
Beat is a song sung by Honey Singh is a Punjabi
number that’ll be used in the movie. A song that people will dance to at
parties.
Songs that you MUST DOWNLOAD – Tumhi Ho
Bandhu, Daaru Desi, Yaariyan.
Songs that you could download and will
eventually end up liking – Luttna, Jugni , Angrezi Beat
Songs that you will ‘keep’ but not delete
neither listen after some time – Tera
Naam Jaapdi Phiran
Please DO NOT DOWNLOAD – Second Hand
Jawaani
I’ll give credit where due and say that Pritam
has made sure that the music sales of Cocktail will be high. He’s made sure
that people will end up flocking the theatres come July 13. A good soundtrack
by the man was long time overdue, Pritam hasn’t disappointed.
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