Music-director: Jeet Ganguly, Sangeeth Haldipur and Pranay
Lyrics: Saayed Quadri and Kumaar
Artistes: Mustafa Zahid and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Label: Sony Music
The recently released album ‘Blood Money’ is riding on a mixed expectation of the listeners. Unlike a quintessential Bhatt film, the music of Blood Money hasn’t been pitched as a mega affair and has failed to take market by storm. But with the trusted composers and singers of Bhatt camp, who has stayed true to the aegis for past decade, the music is steadily picking up the market.
The petite comeback album of composer Jeet (of Jeet-Pritam fame) focuses on seven rehashed Bengali rock tracks including special compositions by Sangeeth Haldipur and Pranay. Considering the winning musical aesthetic of Bhatt’s film, the album is credited with talented vocals of Mustafa Zahid and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
The soundtrack opens with the soulful and classically synchronized voice of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan crooning the romantic melody ‘Chaahat’. The ode incorporates the elements of Sufi-rock in its recitation of passionate lyrics penned by Sayeed Quadri. Tinged with sadness, a pleasant sounding number instigates with the slow-paced harmony and immediately strikes the mercurially high pitched note further attributing to the Bhatt’s territorial emotional somber tones.
Following the romantic song is the situational gloomy track ‘Gunaah’ which depicts the protagonist’s doubts and ferocity of hurting his loved ones. The Sufi-rock formatted metal base track is skillfully rendered by Mustafa Zahid. The rocky tunes undergo musical variants with choral and racy distorted guitar riffs blending with the series of mellowed piano drills, mandolin and violin notes.
The unplugged version of ‘Gunnah’ by Rana Mazumder altogether manages to create its own identity with moderately slow and heartfelt rendition.
The album further records yet another emotionally enriched melody ‘Teri Yaadon Se’ by guest composer Pranay. The striking Paki rock music of the track emphasizes the distressed sentiments through the varying tones backed by expressive lyrics. The archetypically hard-rock composition bestows the aggrieved emotions with the fine blend of Zahid’s energized voice.
The remixed version is a finely orchestrated DJ track pumped with disco-beat fillers, loud electronic and synth-beats.
The album finally hits the winning streak with thematically oriented ‘Jo Tere Sang’. The composer has once again converted its inspiration Sufi-rock into a loud stream hard-metal rock with peculiar stringed arrangements. The number not only epitomizes the dark sinister theme of the film but also resides as a well- defined background score with narrative set of wordings.
In their first ever collaboration, guest lyricist Kumaar and composers Sangeet-Siddharth Haldipur churns out the last and only peppy number of the album ‘Arzoo’. The number evident to trait the romantic relation between the lead showcases a distinctive aspect of Clinton Cerejo singing.
Overall, Blood Money succeeds in boosting some adeptly composed tracks by Jeet Ganguli. But fails on the innovation grounds as the whole album falls on the stereotypical offerings of Bhatt clans. Though music doesn’t crack-up the charts it surely won’t disappear from the shelves in quickest time possible.
