Don 2 : Music Review

Big disappointment. These two words explains it all. When I saw Milliblog giving it a NW1W, I was shocked that it was for an SEL album, but while playing the songs, I realised Karthik was right. The tracks seriously has a hangover of title track from earlier film. 

Aa raha hoon palat ke - a dialogue piece has nothin to comment about. Next Zaraa dil ko thaam lo - starts as an Enrique number, with a 'longer than normal' prelude lines, the song got me confused. Vishal's voice tweaked to sound like Shankar's, the song tries hard but falls flat. That mysterious-menacing charm of previous Don, is missing here.  Usha Uthup's Hai yeh Maya -a dark mysterious situational track, also fails to catch attention. Finally, in Dushman Mera, we get to hear Shankar, with Sunitha Sarathy. Using all the leftover pieces from Don1, even the epic interlude of Main hoon don [remember, when PC enters the floor wearing red gown !] - is wasted by putting up lyrics onto it. 

The King is back - is more of an instrumental piece. Made me miss pulsating tracks by Midival Punditz in Don. And if all this is not enough, title track is re-re-mixed and sung by KK in Mujhko Pehchan lo. Sigh.. missing Shaan here..... Hai Yeh Maya repeats as remix. And again, Mujhko Pehchanlo comes as yet another Remix - with irritating loop of lines 'Don ko pakdna mushkil hi nahi.....'. The Don Waltz is a little relief as we get to hear something else then just dance floor tracks - not so special stuff though. 

I seriously hope the tracks are well used in the [expected to be as short as 100 mins long] movie. As a standalone album, it fails. Why oh SEL ? Why?  Hope this too shall pass. 


Tags : Don 2 songs, review, Farhan Akhtar, Shankar Ehsan Loy, Ehsaan, Shah Rukh Khan, Lara Dutta, Kunal Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Guest, Special appearance, Scene, Don, sequel

14 comments:

  1. Oh no! I love SEL, and had high hopes for this album, which I've yet to hear. Bummer.

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  2. Completely Disagree My Friend..Hai Yeh Maaya is an outstanding composition..all the critics have got it wrong, agreed it's not as good as the previous but by not any means it deserves NW1W..Oh come on!

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  3. excellent soundtrack takes a few listens to get the fell of it...beautifully composed songs...not for the cheesy romantic song lovers...lots of class!!!

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  4. Shell Check it out for yourself. May be its just me who was looking for something different from first one, that wasn't given here. But i feel the tracks would work perfect in sleekly edited movie. I am eagerly waiting for it.

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  5. Anonymous10:21

    GR888888888 MINDBLOWING SONGS!!!!!!!!!!FUCKING REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. Anonymous12:53

    chutiya review.

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  7. Anonymous16:52

    Now what u want from shahrukh.if he do superb but haters always hat him inspite of content of music and movie.al d song is outstanding.if we carry out review of don 2 till now,then most of comment from haters.so beware of haters before realizing comment.

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  8. Agree with you man, bakwaas songs, i think people are just sucking up because they love shahrukh, i expected better !

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  9. totally agree with you SEL have lost it....all their recent albums barring ZNMD have sucked

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  10. As usual another pleasing piece of music by A. R .Rehman

    http://inmusicindia.blogspot.com

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  11. Absolutely fantastic Post! Lots of great information and inspiration about Don 2 Movie Review, both of which we all need! Thank you for another great Movie post.

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  12. The king is back!!!
    Shahrukh u r a good actor.dont come down where ur
    acting is concern..

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  13. The king is back !!!
    shahrukh u r a good actor.dont come down where ur
    acting is concern...

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  14. What a film great action, suspense, coherent plot, interesting characterisations... Very Hollywood! The characters were very grey nobody was black or white! They should definitely have a third part

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