Raavan Music Review

Category:: Music Review
Album: Raavan
Music: A. R. Rahman
Lyrics: Gulzar

Rating: 9 on 10

And there we have the most anticipated combo of Mani-Rehmaan, back to leave you spellbound.
Album consists of 6 tracks and all are of different mood. Most of the songs are high on beats and rehmaan fusion so it may take its own time to grow on you ...

Beera

Vocals: Vijay Prakash, Mustafa Kutoane

Its the most appealing track in the album and already an instant hit from the trailers...

It describes the hero of the movie 'Raavan', 'Beera' or as Gulzaar calls one with 'dus maathe' and 'sau naam'

Listening it makes you feel like beera the mighty princess is coming in his full glory n splendour in his fleet of horses...

Starts on an awesome note and continues on constant beats added with rehmaan's african fusion...

Reminds me of Omkara's title track...Carry the same lyrical prowess by Maestro Gulzaar..

Vijay Prakash has substituted Sukhvinder with his power punched voice...




Thok de Killi

Vocals: Sukhwinder Singh, Am'Nico

This is again a powerful track with some scintillating vocals by Sukhwinder...

Very youthful and gutsy song... It is filled with lots of passion and the 'do or die' philosophy like 'Chale Chalo' of Lagaan...

Flavour of music reminds of dhakka laga bukka type yuva enthusiasm and this one moves us inside out...

Love Gulzaar for using phrases like bhakad billi...uda de gilli...udaye khilli...

Awesome work by him...




Ranjha Ranjha

Vocals: Rekha Bhardwaj, Javed Ali

This is Rehman's musical masterpiece with varied instruments at work...

It is surely flawless and glues you to its magic...

Gulzaar opens up his kitty of words.He comes up with words like heer-ranjha, kundan-chandan etc and mixes up pretty well...

Javed and Rekha's duet ends up as another number for Rekha to add in her feather...

Rekha's rendition reminds her style as in Namak Ishq ka of Omkara....




Behne De

Vocals: Karthik,Mohammed Irfan

A beautiful song where Gulzaar comes up with some motivational lines ...

W8ing eagerly for the movie where it will fit in..

Karthik is given full scope to justify his vocals with clarity which he indeed does beautifully...

Emotion resembles songs like 'Banjar hai sab banjar hai' of Saathiya or 'Mujhe Rang de' of Legend of Bhagat Singh...



Khili Re... Raat Ki Raani

Vocals: Reena Bhardwaj

Its like a fresh bunch of flowers on a beautiful girl's hair...

Song blossoms up with Gulzaar's poetic words like Khili,Kohra,baasuriya...
It is set in the Meera-Krishna devotional mood...
Its set on a slow pace and seems like rehman's gift to Reena bhardwaj and she leaves us serene and calm indeed..

It reminds the same divinity as in 'Yeh rishta kya kehlata hai' of Meenakshi sung by Reena herself...


Kata Kata

Vocals: Ila Arun, Sapna Awasthi, Kunal Ganjawala

It sounds like a wedding song sung by friends teasing the grooom reminiscent of rukmani song...
Gulzaar adds to the fun mood with words like bechara,saas-sasura,jeth-jethani,joru-kanya-dulhe-miya...
Mood wise its a very happening song with lots of percussion used..
Its heavily instrumental and situational, so lots will depend on how well it gels into the movie...





Overall, if you don't compare it with early Mani-Rehmaan works then you would certainly love it. Every movie album should gel with the movie's theme...It does...And this one is a take on  Raavan of Ramayan, a man with conflicts of good and evil...set in a backdrop of vast jungle...

So one can not expect a Tere bina beswadi ratiya or Saathiya or Tu hi re as Raavan is not about romance...Or even for that matter any light mood peppy nos. like Kabhi Kabhi Aditi...


But you can find a powerfull Beera Beera and the effervescent Ranjha with the puristic Khili Re to leave you mesmerizing...Go for it!!!