Music: do we need it in all movies? What happen when we try to force songs into the story? Background music is needed but what about songs?
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Nothing seems as it was 30 years ago in the music arena. What is happening? You pick up a CD with the hope of listening to music and pleasant songs. What you get is nothing from it.
The current music directors working at the moment are the laziest of all since 1995. If a movie does not carry big names, the music director will not put efforts into the project. Even he is being paid big bucks for the venture; he will come up with songs just to fill the album. We have to bear the lazy, uncreative and effortless work. The audience is taken for granted.
Worst of all, if the movie is an action one, well, better not have any songs rather than making the composer scratching his head and trying to supposedly make music and item numbers. Let these people use their creative energy doing other projects. Producers want to make money but are they really providing the entertainment? If they can’t provide the package an audience is expecting, then they better make other plans with their borrowed money.
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Venus Production comes with Elaan. Venus is a music company. The Jain brothers are supposedly into music. Unfortunately, both guys need to know about music before getting into the industry. They could never get the best out of a music director unless the music director himself gives them the best. This shows how the Venus Company is weak and unsteady.
Among all the music directors available to work with a music company, they chose their favourite Anu Malik. Sameer is the lyricist. What they don’t know is that both Anu and Sameer are over-worked people and did not show any interest in their so-called big project. The result is an album with 5 tracks and a remix. It stars Arjun Rampal, John Abraham, Rahul Khanna, Amisha Patel and Lara Dutta.
An action theme does not require songs but at least, if he agrees to compose, he has to come up with something; good or bad. Elaan’s music tries to be peppy and rocking.
‘Dua Karna’ is the only song which can be mentioned worth listening. Peppy spanish guitars used wonderfully, drums beats and good background sounds. Sunidhi Chauhan gets the best song. Tune is average.
‘Bechain Mera Dil Hai’: No! Not another of these mushy romantic songs! Alka Yagnik’s voice seems to be have been abused again. Expect the boring chorus repeating, while half-asleep, the rehashed Anu Malik’s musical notes he uses in all his assignments. The interludes and the chorus are uninspiring. Udit Narayan is wasted again in a big way.
The James Bond theme opens ‘Meri Zindagi Mein Koyi ’. Gayatri Iyer tries to sing like Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey to do a James Bond opening for ‘Elaan’. This is the title song as well. The attempt by Anu Malik is simply inferior, monotonous and trashy. The orchestration is good but when a tune is not passable, the whole song and the singer sink and disappear, like it passed near the Bermudas Triangle.
Arabian music starts ‘Dil Mein Hulchul’. The whole song is a fuse of over-used Anu Malik’s songs. Sunidhi Chauhan and Shaan deliver an adequate performance. Anu tries to put more by designing exclusive sounds and paying more attention to the beats and orchestration arrangements. Overall disappointing!
‘Andarlu Mandarlu’ is rendered by Anu Malik, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chauhan. ‘Bol Tension Goodbye’ is the main line. This one is bringing more tension. More noise with the beats than music. Music is David Dhawan type. What a waste! Even it is situational, it get on your nerves after some time. To make things worst, they included a remix of the song! Really these people are out-of-their minds!
It seems Anu Malik composed the songs in 2 hours flat while having a short lunch break during the Indian Idol’s auditions. Sameer appears to have been forced to write the https://lyrics. Seems that he wrote most of them on his way back home in his car on business cards he received from producers. Should I say more?