Kismat Konnection

Rating: 5/10

Music Direction: Pritam

Strengths:Standard formula that works - Catchy dance numbers, decent romantic songs, familiar bollywood sounds which go down easily.

Weaknesses:No outstanding song - just good enough songs, Atif Aslam annoys in what could have been a very good song.

Best Songs: Aai Pappi, Bakhuda Tum Hi Ho (If you can ignore the parts where Atif has no idea what he's doing), Is this love - decent enough
Avoidable songs:Not really - Just go through the album quickly and pick the ones you like.

This is a pretty regular bollywood album. The songs wont annoy you or anything, but not sure how long you will remember them. 3 dance tracks, a couple of romantic ones and all sorts of remixes and reprises. Straight to the songs..

'Aai Pappi' is the most sellable song on this CD. It's got a good techno-riff going all throughout and as usual the groove and all is pretty well arranged. Plus, these songs have become Neeraj Sridhar's bread and butter now and he's done well here too. However, this song is a bit monotonous and you might not repeatedly listen to the whole song but still like it. Also, sounds pretty similar to 'Hare Krishna Hare Ram' from Bhool Bhulaiyya. Don't think that should be a problem though.

'Ba Khuda Tum Hi Ho' is a very nice composition and could have been an outstanding song if Atif would have sung in scale, especially the antras. I'm not an Atif hater but I do admit he's overrated and needs to get his basics right. Plus, somehow the Atif-Alka Yagnik combo doesn't go down easily with me. Inspite of all this, I still recommend this song! Oh haan, and its a romantic song of course.

Another decent song is 'Is This Love'. Again, nothing special, just nice-and-mushy-can-listen-to-a-few-times kinda song. The hookline is good ('maine na jaana' etc.), guitar fillers sound refreshing and the singers Shreya Ghoshal and Mohit Chauhan (Tum Se Hi fame) have done a nice job.

'Soniye Ve -Dhak Dhak' sounds very similar to 'Dil mangta hai' from Mujhse Shaadi Karogi so if you liked that go ahead and enjoy this track. Bhangra mixed with rap and decent melody makes it a good track to listen to once a while. Sonu's good as usual but something's been done to Sunidhi's voice and I dont know why, but don't care either. :P

'Move Your Body' is an average dance number. There's so much of this these days that such songs just disappear in the crowd. However, this one's got a good hookline ('pheeki pheeki raat ho gayi' and so on). Otherwise, its pretty ordinary.

Nothing major has been done in the remixes other than adding the dhik chik dhak chik beats and technofying the vocals. Will have some use in Gyms or discos here and there.

Overall, as the theme of this post has been - Very regular and average bollywood album with just-good-enough songs. A couple of them might be more popular than expected if people are made to listen to them too much, otherwise nothing special. You can skip this if you want to and as you might have noticed, this is one of those reviews I've not really enjoyed writing. :P