Music: Pritam, Amit Mishra
Lyrics: Irshad Kamail
Rating: 1/5
Label: Junglee Music
What can be expected from the music of a bollywood comic film? some whacky lyrics and fancy beats? The music of Athithi Kab Jaoge sticks to the formula of foot-tapping music and underlying humour- but there’s a twist – composers Amit Mishra and Pritam Chakraborty haven’t composed anything mint fresh Most of the tunes on the album are rehashed old tracks with humor lines – something which Devang Patel is more popular for..
The overall score is just about passable – baring some rib-tickling sections in songs like Jyoti Jalaile – a recreated version of Vishal Bharadwaj’s popular song Beedi Jalaile. In Jyoti Jalaile, composer Amit Mishra twists Bipasha’s sizzling item number into a devotional Mata ka bhajan! And, it does remind of the era when tons of bhajans were sung to a bollywood song which often made us smile cheek to cheek in awe or embarrasment This song is written by Irshad Kamil and sung by singer Sukhwinder Singh
Probably, one of the characters in the film is quite devotional (?), so the devotional flavor continues with Lord Ganesha’s aarti ‘Sukh Karta, Dukh Harta’ – however, this aarti is wee too filmy with characteristic vocals and pronunciation. The only song on the album that sounds palatable is perhaps Kabir’s Dohe – thanks to limited tampering
The album also boasts of a parody version of Mohammad Rafi’s earliest hits Na Jaane Tum Kab Aaoge from film Dulari (1949). The lyrics of the song are aptly changed to Na Jaane Tum Kab ‘Jaaoge’ and pakaged with a mix of 50’s bollywood sound and present day hip-hop Sung by Anupam Amod, it’s the usual rap-and-beats Pritam recipe
Very few bollywood music composers have been successful in giving memorable score for a comic plot. Pritam and Amit Mishra engage, but their score is far from anything ‘memorable’.
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