Bachna Ae Haseeno

Rating: 5/10

Music Direction: Vishal Dadlani - Shekhar Ravjiani

Strengths:The song - Khuda Jaane is an instant hit, nothing special otherwise

Weaknesses: Apart from the top two songs, others fail to stick on, songs are too cliched - same old dance numbers with nothing special to mention about.

Best Songs:Khuda Jaane, Bachna Ae Haseeno
Avoidable songs:No song is too bad but you'll have to listen to the other songs a lot of times to enjoy them.

It starts of on a rocking note with 'Bachna Ae Haseeno' and 'Khuda Jaane' and then just gets boring. Nothing particularly interesting about this album so let's go to the songs..

'Khuda Jaane' is a wonderful song. I loved it. KK rocks this song like anything! Shilpa Rao doesn't do too badly either but her voice doesn't seem to suit Deepika in the video. Other than this it's a rocking romantic song. Specially for the hookline 'Khuda Jaane' which is very very powerful and KK has given everything to it! You just have to listen to this song for KK.

'Bachna Ae Haseeno' rocks too! They've incorporated the original Kishore parts really well and Sumit Kumar (Kishore's son) sings the rest of it. You can't compare him to the great Kishore but he's done very well to keep up and doesn't let you down. This is song is throughly enjoyable and I am looking forward to watching this in the movie. The video should be very interesting. Go grab it!

'Aahista Aahista' brings back Lucky Ali but this is not as good as 'Anjaana' from Yuva although it sounds a bit like that. It doesn't really impress the first 2-3 times but it sounds better when it gets a little familiar. The singer's (Lucky Ali and Shreya Ghoshal) have done a very good job but overall the song is kinda skippable.

'Lucky Boy' might work. The hookline sounds interesting (the 'Lucky Boy' part). And I am assuming this song features Bipasha. So, eventually this might end up sounding well in the movie. As a track, nothing special apart from the main hookline. It will work with people who've enjoyed songs like 'Crazy Kiya Re'.

'Small Town Girl' sounds similar to 'Ticket to Hollywood' from Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and 'Pretty Woman' from Kal ho na ho. Punjabi lyrics, Shankar Mahadevan and the regular dhol beats. What is interesting to see is Shankar Mahadevan singing for another music director - don't remember when that happened last. So if you liked the songs mentioned above, listen to this, but for me, another song I don't mind skipping.

'Jogi Mahi' has Shekhar singing and he starts off pretty well with Sukhwinder joining later. I've had too much of these kind of songs (The name itself would put most people off, unless you've immersed yourself into Bollywood and Yash Raj for good). Yes, the song is exactly like what the name suggests. So, in case you've had too much of these jogi, mahi, soniya etc. tracks, avoid this one.

One more track on this album is the 'Khuda Jaane (remix)'. It's faster and with more beats as you would expect. Good one for the disco although the vocals have been lost somewhere in all the beats.

Overall, you can skip this album and just get hold of Khuda Jaane and Bachna Ae Haseeno as the rest is regular Yash Raj crap (unless you enjoy that).