Drona: Music Review

The music of yet another fantasy flick Drona is out in the stores now with just 20 odd days left before the release of the film. Drona as I said in my earlier posts is a testing film for Abhishek and his star power. The film's music has been done by Dhruv Ghanekar who has done a decent job as a newbie. The Lyrics are by Vaibhav Modi. The movie has put on stake a lot of money and work since it has been into making since past few years. The soundtrack consists of Seven songs in total out of which Five are originals and Two being the remixes.

The first track on the album is the title track which has been mainly sung by Dhruv. This track is a fast paced track that kinda gives an introduction of Drona. The lyrics are very mediocre and even the basic tune is just good. The overall music is good but it has no newness to it. The tune is good but not good enough for a title track. This matters more since this song would feature in the background in several important scenes in the film. In my opinion there should not have been a Title track instead they should have kept some theme music. The song has a nice pacy nature to it and I hope even the movie has so. It should not be a Fantasy cum Melodrama. Overall the song is nice but could have been much better. The singers have not given much to the track and its music only does most of the job .

The next track on the album is "Oop Cha" which is on air these days . The song is a techno friendly one but the lyrics and music are very old sounding . This one sounds like those strange South-Indian songs which have even stranger videos . The lyrics are very amateur and have actually done no good to the song . The oop cha goes well with the tune but the tune itself is not that great . These kind of songs look good in the film but are not meant for listening purposes . Still it can be heard once . Sunidhi , a sincere request , please stop singing such songs !!! You have much more talent than this . Why waste it on such songs ? Let new girls sing such songs . You can find typical Sunidhi in this one and even she does her job like always .

The third song on the soundtrack is "Bandagi" which is a little better than the previous two in terms of both lyrical content and music . The vocals on this one are also bySunidhi and these are the type of tracks that she should now focus on . She sounds really good in this one as compared to the previous track . But theSunidhi of "Bhaage Re Mann" of Chameli was still missing . This track is more on the slower classical side and also has vocals by Roop Kumar Rathod who sings quite well . The song has been composed in an interesting fashion by the composer and has given it quite a modern classical kinda feeling . Overall this is the pick from the entire album .

The next track is "Nanhe Nanhe" by Sadhna Sargam which is a very slow track . This track makes me believe that this film would have a melodramatic angle and the last thing that I would want to watch is a Masala-Fantasy film . I just hope that even if there are some emotional scenes they are not done in typical old style and are put in a nice way . The song has been sung nicely by Sadhna Sargam and has a nice tune also . Overall again it is a nice but can be avoided kind of song . Would sense more in the film along with some situation .

The last track on the album "Khushi" sounds like a song straight out from the musicals by Disney . Even some of their Cartoon Films have similar songs . This track also has glimpses ofNanhe Nanhe in it . It is more a of a Jazz Band kind of song that were quite popular in the Hollywood's Golden Days . Those who love Jazz Bands might like this song a little bit . A poor attempt mainlybecause of the very amateur kind of lyrics . They more sounded like a Hindi Translated version some of English track .

Then come the two remix tracks of the album out of which the Redux of Drona comes first . A very usual kind of Remix which has been sung by Sundhi instead and is almost same as original just with few DJ beats and effects . The last track on the album is a Remix of Oop Cha which is even more techno friendly than the original one . Nothing quite extraordinary about the track .

Overall , the album is nice but has not even a single song that can be called a winner . The song Bandagi is the best on the album but still is an average track . The lyrics are probably the weakest point in the entire album . The album in whole has not much to offer and would work more in the film rather than on its own . All the songs are just about average tracks with same old music . Album Rating : Two out of Five Stars ; Bandagi being the best .