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By Joginder Tuteja, October 19, 2005 - 14:45 IST
More and more independent film makers are making their presence felt in Bollywood with each passing day. Director Junaid Memon is one such name that has come into limelight with the film called 'The Film' that would be released coming November. Revolving around the struggle of newcomers who aim at making it big in the Hindi film world, 'The Film' is a Nomad Films presentation that stars Mahima Chaudhary, Vaibhav Jhalani, Khalid Siddiqui, Chaahat Khanna, Ravi Goasain, Vivek Madan, Ananya Khare and Sulbha Deshpande in principal roles. Samidha-Khalid do the music and lyrics for the majority of songs while Sidharth, Suhas and Chandresh also pitch in.
After some beautiful songs in 'Kasak', Lucky Ali comes behind the mike once again for 'Hum Bade Hue' and sings in his inimitable soft and deep voice. While the song sounds extremely likeable as long as Lucky Ali is in the scene, there are some intrusions that come in the form of nursery rhymes like 'Johny Johny Yes Papa', 'Jack and Jill', 'Twinkle Twinkle' etc. sung by Khalid, Sowmya Raoh and Smita Malhotra that are purely situational. As far as listening to the song is concerned, it could have done without any of these rhymes but one never knows how they may fit in the movie! Music and lyrics by Samidha-Khalid are quite likeable for this song about life that opens the album.
A 'different' song that follows next is again written and composed by Samidha-Khalid and is titled 'Dham Chik Dham Chik'. Yet another situational track that is repeated in the album [with Sunidhi Chauhan joining the fun], it takes some time to be grasped but later one gets hooked to its rhythm. Sung by Suresh Wadkar, Roop Kumar Rathod and Khalid, it’s the jingle of 'Tara Ra Ra' that gets on you after a couple of hearings.
A rocking track 'Khatra Khatra' comes up soon after and changes the track of the album completely. While it was all fun and life in the previous two tracks, this one is about the dangers in life and precautions one should take while venturing into the big bad world outside. Sunidhi Chauhan comes in full throttle for this well written track by Kumar that has been composed by the trio of Sidharth, Suhas and Chandresh. Such kind of songs always works in a remix mode and that's the reason why you hear a much faster 'remix' version after a gap of few songs. And if this was not enough, there is a solo version [though a bit shorter], this time in vocals of Suhas, who renders the track quite well. No doubt 'Khatra Khatra' is something that remains with you after the album is over due to a repeated placement and an overall good packaging.
Suhas comes up with yet another solo for a song about friendship and togetherness in 'Dosti Se Zindagi Hai'. A soothing track with just a guitar in the background, it reminds of the kind of tracks that are so well popular in campus and hostel life. Composed by Suhas along with Sidharth and written by Sarim Momin, it is a song with good substance and adds on to the overall value of the album. Undoubtedly, it is the best track of the album. Instrumentals of 'Hum Bade Hue' and 'Dham Chik' arrive as 'International Tracks' at the end the album.
Every month, there is at least one experimental movie that hits the screens but seldom is there any movie that gets noticed to a good extent. 'The Film' is one such movie that manages to make its presence felt due to two reasons. One, its title and two, its music that makes a good impression when nothing was really expected from this movie created by first timers. Samidha, Khalid, Sidharth, Suhas and Chandresh come up with a good first album that should find its audience slowly but steadily.
Hear it for a new sound!
 
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