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Music Review: Rajneeti

Rajneeti is a Prakash Jha’s film and most of the movies made by Prakash Jha are not remembered for their music therefore nobody expects the albums to give the best scores but the presence of Ranbir and Katrina raises the need to have some good tracks. The film has a combination of composers including Pritam, Aadesh Srivastva , Wayne Sharpe (New York based composer) and Shantanu Moitra.

‘Bheegi Si Bhaagi Si’ – The track is composed by Pritam and the lyrics are of Irshad Kamil. The song is a romantic number and the duo Mohit Chauhan and Antara Mitra provide a fresh combination of voices which appears lovely on this romantic number.

‘Mora Piya’ - It is a Aadesh Srivastava number which comes with the classical touch and the Aadesh does the signing for this rather slow song which suits the movie subject. The song has not been kept purely Indian classical in fact the vocals of Rosalie Nicholsan and Shashi makes it appear to be the one for the new genre. A twilight remixed version of the number is present in the album in which the female voice of Kavita Seth can be heard.

‘Ishq Barse’ – If you do not have the rural touch, you forget its Prakash Jha’s film. So the next one Ishq Barse which reminds of the villages of Rajasthan. The vocals in the song are from Pronob Biswas and Swanand Kirkire, and the song has the voice of Hamsika Iyer. The track has been composed by Shantanu Moitra and the remixed version of the song is attractive for the Genx audience. The remixed version is called ‘The Bombay Bounce Club Mix’ and it has the potential to be a chartbusters.

‘Dhan Dhan Dharti’-Wayne Sharpe composed the song which is based on Vande Matram and the lyrics are by Gulzar .The voices are of Sonu Nigam with the guitar sound and later –Shankar Mahadevan gets back behind the mike.

A political movie should not have many songs(political subject reminds of the  songs and performance of Aandhi ) and this one has a few great numbers.

Rating: 6/10