![]() ![]() ![]() This track has a nice tune, but the words this time - talking of losing new shades, a denim jacket, a packet of marijuana - are even more sophomoric. Next comes Pichle saat dinon mein, the na-na-na-na song from the trailers. And that 'yowza' tacked on to the end of the vocals is seriously a bit much. Farhan's voice is 'different', putting it politely, but it remains to be seen if he has actual range. The track itself is a basic rock song with the kind of wannabe lyrics - ' duniya mein hain jung kyon? Behta laal rang kyon?' - straight out of a bad college band. Socha hai opens with a distorted guitar wail, clearly inspired by the iconic beginning to Jimi Hendrix' take on The Star Spangled Banner. Thankfully, they sound significantly better on CD. It was pure cacophony as they 'rocked' songs like Dil chahta hai and Main hoon Don, frequently stopping the song to regroup and reestablish the beat with a hurried 'one-two-three-four.' All I can say is that they made me leave the mall way earlier than planned, and that if they had been on a stage on campus anywhere, they would have been booed off. Automatically annoyed when their music broke through into the bookstore, I then heard the Farhan Akhtar project, a band where the director turned vocalist while backed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Monday evening I was at a local mall when I heard a band trying really really hard. ![]()
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