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BLUFFMASTER

Sa Re Ga Ma

To call it original would be a bluff for the album has just about one original number. Sung by Abhishek Bachchan himself with Sunidhi Chauhan, "Right Here Right Now" really rocks. It captures the mood of the movie that is supposed to be stylish and as they say with it! Rest is all assembled very much like the cast. There is Mehmood's legendary number "Sabse Bada Rupaiya" from the film of the same name where Majrooh discovered the fact of life. There is also S.D. Burman's "Tadbeer Se Bigdi Hui Taqdeer Bana De" from one of the greatest con films of all times Baazi. There are a slew of other remixed numbers in the Hinglish genre by the likes of Trickbaby and Sameeruddin. If you take the morals out, Bluffmaster will work with its target audience - the young and happening. As director Rohan Sippy puts it, "It should work, original or not original."

BOLLYWOOD LOUNGE THEMES

Times Music, Rs.65

No extra points to gauge here that the tape is in the market only because the lounges around the cities are doing well and there is a growing demand for instrumental albums to suit the milieu. But the credit should surely go to Hyacinth D'Souza for choosing nine lovely tracks to `remix'. Better still, since lounges demand soft, lilting sound tracks, the term, remix has come clean of that usual dhinchek (loud and boisterous) overtones.

Among the numbers, the ones which particularly stand out are "aao huzur Tumko" from the film Kismat, "Dil Kya Karen" from Julie, "Jadoo Hai Nasha Hai" from Jism.

TODI

By Gaan Sarawati

Kishori Amonkar

Times Music, Rs.65

Here is one to add to the treasure trove of classical music enthusiasts. Kishori Amonkar renders the raga Todi in vilambit and fast modes. Unlike some albums, that seem to be apologetic about their classical content and try to introduce more variety than suits the time span of single cassette, by featuring several ragas, this one concentrates on Todi. Side A features the expansion of the raga in the slow mode and leisurely style. The lyrics of this vilambit composition are "Mere Mana Yahoo Ratey Re". This continues onto the second side and is followed up with a drut (fast) composition whose lyrics are "Beguna guna gayeeye". The final rendering is a tarana in drut Ek tala, in which the tabla player (anonymous for some reason) adds spice by reciting fast bol patterns between the song passages.

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