Tevar Music Review - "Stale old with little innovation"

Anup Pandey

Music: Sajid-Wajid

Lyrics: Sajid, Danish Sabri/ Kausar Munir

1. Superman

Sajid-Wajid, known for composing music for all Salman films, gets to compose for someone who is 'Salman Ka Fan'- with no change in the perspective of their music. They recycle their own sound and style instead of reinventing it. Also, it is lazily sung by Sajid himself. The remix is so noisy that you won't listen to it even once. 

2. Radha Nachegi

Starts off as something that could have been a nice thumri (like Kanha from the duo's only listenable soundtrack yet- Veer), enter electric guitar, things turn interesting- but only for a while. It goes downfall then.... it turns into an item number with lyrics as unoriginal as "Music bajega loud toh Radha Nachegi". Yet the song manages to redeem itself in its energy and in Ritu Pathak's expansive and expressive vocal chord.

3. Madamiyan

This song puts you off just as it starts. Hammering and harrowing. What else would you expect from a song that has Mamta Sharma, Mika and Sajid-Wajid on its credits?

4. Joganiyan

The composers quite surprise in this rock-led track with neat bassline, violins that transcends from being racy to haunting, and suitable Shruti Haasan behind the microphone. Works so well that the duo, in the same soundtrack, proves me wrong about reinventing sound for an action film! 

5. Main Nahi Jaana Pardes 

Tufail Niazi's Kheryan De Naal has found many covers by various singers across the border but the recent popular one by Shafaqat Amanat Ali Khan has been re-packaged and adapted (read: spoiled) for the soundtrack. The opening portion- piano, violins, sitar- works beautifully, very beautifully. But the 'Nahi Jaana' hook is very incoherent. 

6. Let's Celebrate

The quintessential electronic dance track of the album these days with Punjabi rap lyrics. Composed by Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha gets credits as a singer too with Khan, not an enjoyable track by any measure.

7. Tevariffic 

This is a mashup of all the bad ones of the album. Gulp. Ok, the strings that starts this horrible affair was quite interesting but alas. Who comes up with the idea to have such a track? I'm sure it's the marketing dudes and not the composers. But you never know. 

Bottomline

The only nice part of the album is that it may mainstream lovely Kheryan De Naal into Bollywood. But that's not enough to save the soundtrack!

Ratings: 2/5