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Everything fits perfectly into Call me dil including Rashid Ali’s voice! The track builds up beautifully and Rahman keeps it simple and sweet. Karthik’s singing and the vocal harmonies work nicely for Hello Hello.The song is a monolith; effective in whole, true for most of the songs in this album. Cry Cry has been doing the rounds in promos across channels. I personally love these kind of songs (Jaane kyon, Agar main kahoon, Kabhi kabhi aditi et al) The percussion is super effective. The guitar-sax-flute interludes are beautiful and so are the voices, especially Shreya Ghoshal. The only quibble, Rashid Ali‘s sounds a bit too sophisticated for the tapori slang and the “kai ko” seems kind of awkward in his vox! Its good to hear Sonu Nigam singing again for Rahman; however Do Nishaniyan is certainly not among the best from this duo. Maiyya Yashoda is very catchy. The track has the perfect folksy pace/rhythm going and the harmonium and flute bits work very well. The singing is brilliant, Javed Ali and Chinmayee faring wonderfully and reascertaining themselves as singers to look out for. Shreya’s Pam Pa Ra works in parts. There are some catchy elements in the arrangement including the Sax, and percussion in some areas. I’ve been waiting is soulful; kudos to the beautiful orchestration. Vijay Yesudas does extremely and surprisingly well delivering the song.
Simplicity and subtlety win you over all through this refreshing album from A R Rahman, arguably his best in 2010 going by the sheer number of songs.
Music Aloud Rating: 9/10
Recommended Tracks: Well the only one that I found falling short is Do Nishaniyan. 🙂
Oh… its superb album, I listened many times.All songs are calm, western & simple, except “Maiyya”& “Do Nishaniyan”. I have a special interest to “Call Me”.I think it’ll be the most popular song of the album.”Maiyya” is also variety. “Do Nishaniyan” is great melody (Indian style).
Now my ratings:-
Do Nishaniyan (both ver )- 5/5
Call me – – 5/5
Maiyya jamuna -4.8/5
Cry cry -4.6/5
I ‘ ve been -4/5
Hello -4/5
Pam para -3.5/5.
This album…. is best for this year , so plz listen this songs. I love rahman & I hope you also love him
Hey Guys Buy original music…. LOve u rahman…. you r the no.1
Rahman means music man..
Rahman rocks man………. 🙂
My rating after first listening:- Do nishaniyan – -5/5
Mayya yashodha(Jamuna)- 4/5
Call me- -3.5/5 .
do nishaniyan is absolutely amazing…..realy good and realy soothing…
Great Songs….
Jai ho Rahmanji.
@charchita: even v agree with u that the song is beautiful and Sonu has done a brilliant job of singing it. Just that on a relative sense, when compared with other ARR-Sonu songs like Saathiya, Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna, Kismat Se Tum and many others, this would rate a step lower. Our opinion of course. 🙂
The music is really good..Rahman rocks…I feel do nishaaniyan is really beautiful song..I dont agree for whatever is written for Do nishaaniyan..Sonu nigam has really sung well…
Love the album….
Love u Rahman…
~$~
Very true..Indian music industry is changing..I can download new releases from I tunes..great!! BTW…Jhootha Hi Sahi simply rocks…
@unniettan: one more complaint is that there was no file info with the song files. had to update everything myself! 😐 in any case, the album is worth the effort. 🙂
Turned to your site just after buying the album online from Saregama. I think and hope that the Indian music industry has finally woken up, and we see more of this. For people like me, who are very willing to go to a legal source, this is good relief. Even better that i could do it from an Indian website instead of going to Amazon (which, btw, does not offer this one). Now looking forward to listening to the album ! Thanks for the review 🙂
unni
P.S.: The one complaint that i do have is that the songs are only at 160kbps ! WTF? Even Amazon offers 256kbps.