| Song: Awaz Deke Hume Tum Bulao Album: Professor Type: Bollywood Singers: Mohd Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar Music Director: Shankar-Jaikishan Lyricist: Hasrat Jaipuri Rating: 5.0 A short and sweet song that leaves you asking for more. |
| Song: Jeene Ke Ishare Album: Phir Milenge Type: Bollywood Singers: Shankar Mahadevan Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Lyricist: Prasoon Joshi Rating: 4.1 Nice and mellow. A great song to pick you up when your spirits are down. |
| Song: Socha Hai Album: Rock On! Type: Bollywood Singers: Farhan Akhtar Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Lyricist: Javed Akhtar Rating: 4.3 Lovely song with cool and quirky lyrics. Farhan’s voice is a big revelation. One nitpick – the 80s rock feel of the song does not gel with its modern spirit. |
| Song: Take It Back Album: The Division Bell Type: Rock Artist: Pink Floyd Rating: 4.0 A gem from a great album. You almost don’t miss Roger Waters. Almost. |
| Song: Sun Sahiba Sun Album: Ram Teri Ganga Maili Type: Bollywood Singers: Lata Mangeshkar Music Director: Ravindra Jain Lyricist: Ravindra Jain Rating: 4.2 Great composition from an underrated music director and beautiful vocals by Lata. Very cool aalaaps. |
| Song: Jane Do Na Album: Sagar Type: Bollywood Singers: Shailendra, Asha Bhonsle Music Director: R.D. Burman Lyricist: Javed Akhtar Rating: 4.0 Only RDB can make a hot and sizzling number like this sound classy. Asha is on fire in this one. |
| Song: Tera Saath Hai Kitna Pyara Album: Jaanbaaz Type: Bollywood Singers: Kishore Kumar, Sadhna Sargam Music Director: Kalyanji-Anandji Lyricist: Indeewar Rating: 4.0 Kalyanji-Anandji had Kalyanji’s son Viju Shah arrange the music for Jaanbaaz. The result is refreshing. We could probably credit Viju Shah with the introduction of the electronic influences in Bollywood music. |
| Song: Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin Album: Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin Type: Bollywood Singers: Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudval Music Director: Nadeem-Shravan Lyricist: Faaiz Anwar Rating: 4.7 Nadeem-Shravan helped bring back romance and melody into Bollywood in the 90s with numbers like this. Beautiful song! |
| Song: Kathalikkum Pennin Album: Kathalan Type: Koliwood Singers: S.P. Balasubramaniam, Udit Narayan, Pallavi Music Director: A.R. Rahman Lyricist: Vairamuthu Rating: 5.0 A fiercely addictive song with one of the best humming melodies of all time. ARR introduces Udit Narayan and bad accents to Tamil movies. 🙂 |
| Song: Saiyaan Re Album: Salaam-e-Ishq Type: Bollywood Singers: Shankar Mahadevan, Shilpa Rao Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Lyricist: Sameer Rating: 3.9 A nice enough song in SEL’s patented modern-Hindi folk genre |