Music : Amit Trivedi,
Lyrics : Nitesh Tiwari, Amit Trivedi, Amitabh Bhattacharya and Vikas Bahl,
Starring : Irrfan Khan, Sanath Menon, Rohan Grover, Naman Jain, Aarav Khanna, Vishesh Tiwari, Chinmai Chandranshuh, Vedant Desai, Divji Handa, Sherya Sharma and Ranbir Kapoor (guest appearance)
"Being Human...!" The latest glossy T-shirt slogan that is catching fast among teenagers, talks about the benevolence and contributions by Bollywood's evergreen wonder-boy Salman Khan. This charitable trust has fostered many fortunes so far through charities and its great feature that this kind-hearted actor has now ventured into film-production with a noble concept titled CHILLAR PARTY, a film about fun-loving bunch of kids. Almost zero on expectations, as child-entertainers are always been a low-key affair, it's indeed a valiant attempt to endeavor out an off-beat subject that relies heavily on shoulders of gang of child actors. Promising Amit Trivedi (AAMIR, DEVD, UDAAN and NO ONE KILLED JESSICA) is the musical brainchild of the album as he leads this bandwagon with bunch of lyricists to deliver out a peculiar "Mumbaiyaa" feisty entertainment. It will be the first child entertainer for Amit Trivedi and first big mantle for him as a playback singer. Hoping for a potential musical entertainer, let's unfold its musical facts...
Catching fast to the street-smart 'tapori' lingo and ishtyle, the infectiously loud pompous feel of drumming, whistling clubbed together sporadically with chorals sets out a vibrant pace for Aa Rela Hain Apun. If Dhinka Chika (READY) had folksy Telugu feisty rhythmical beat patterns then this number has typical 'Mumbaiyaa' style of drumming that has always been trademark of contemporary 'tapori' numbers. Successful soundtracks like Apun bola (JOSH), Sahi Bolta (AANKHEN) and M Bole toh Master (MUNNABHAI M.B.B.S) are few big examples of this genre. This Amit Trivedi loud and energetic number is heavily loaded with customary Maharastrian 'Ganpati' arrangements with narrative support of popular 'filmi' cheeky one-liners. Amit Trivedi along with Armaan Malik, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Tanmay Chaudhari, Arvind Vishwakarma sings out aggressively in loud tones. It's a reasonably audible listening affair that should be connecting well to the feel and spirits of this frolicsome entertainer.
Item song in a kiddie flick! Now what's that? Blue-eyed boy Ranbir Kapoor is the latest 'item-boy' of big bad B-town, who hip-shakes, jives, jumps acrobatically to the thumping tuneful beats of highly publicized Tai Tai Phish. As far as composition and arrangements, it charters same grounds of Aa Rela Apun with similar tonality and vocal flair. Amit Trivedi's fervently enthused voice leads the song while Jaishree Trivedi's added back-up vocals adds ethnicity of Maharastrian folksy touches. For all those who want to be part of 'Govinda' or 'Ganpati' colorfully loud musical festive feel, these two numbers can be probable addition in their collections.
If one goes by qualitative analysis, Shankar Mahadevan's soulfully rendered Taare Zameen Par (TAARE ZAMEEN PAR) is by far the finest in the cadre of sentimental numbers that has epitomized as well as caricatured the mindset of a child in most comprehensive way. Chatte Batte, a somber and sweet-sounding number by sonorous sounding Mohit Chauhan tries to match these high standards with added playfulness in its frivolous tonality. Nitesh Tiwari's lively and mischievous lyrical works (Yeh jalebiyon ke tukde hain, Chaashni se ubhre hain, Tedhe medhe garma garam par meethe bhi hai...") are the best of the album that talks about sweet and salty innocence. The added back-up vocal supports of Armaan Malik, Gaurika Rai and Keshav Rai adds cherubic melodic flair that connects well with the spontaneity of the track.
The sad version brings out melancholic shades of Mohit Chauhan's expressive singing in almost unplugged version, a likable background score for the situational needs of the album. Impressive!
The aggressiveness and stubbornness of being go-getter that was witnessed in soundtracks like Jame Raho (TAARE ZAMEEN PAR) and Hum to hain Aandhi (BHOOTNATH) makes its sporadic presence in Ziddi Piddi. Animated sounds, loud electronic synthesizers fillers, racy guitar riffs and thumping percussions makes vibrant communion as thrashing set of arrangements, exuding out set of thunderous expressions in enthused voices. Amit Trivedi's booming voice is again at the helm of affairs with fine support of Armaan Malik, Tanmay Chaudhari and Gaurika Rai. Overall it's an impressive toil by Amit Trivedi and its booming thump is surely to be firing all cylinders on big screen.
Aspirations galore! The mood turns motivational in Ek School Banana Hai, a feel-good situational number in cherubic voices. It's indeed a noble concept to conceptualize the feel of promoting education in refreshingly lighthearted wordings (Chhote chhote pahiyon pe sapno ki cycle, Udte chalenge aaj pedal'on ko maar kar hum...) and works decently to deliver the needful. The kindergarten style of rhyming is well versed by Gaurika Rai, Keshav Rai, Firoza and Students of Ajivasan School and can be used as potential inspirational filler by NGO's, child activist groups etc.
Hard-rock mania grips in the next outing Behla Do, a vivaciously chirpy number about plights and inspirations of children in easy-on-ears wordings. This rocking and thrilling song brings Armaan Malik and Firoza together as effective twosome. Like previous soundtracks, it too carries out an infectiously vibrant situational number appeal and that should be catalyzing out the turf-war stylized "kiddies" appeal, no great shake but still an audible listening affair.
As presumed and predicted, the finale comes in the form of angelic kindergarten English poem titled "Liar Liar" in naively sweet voices of Gaurika Rai and Keshav Rai. Propagating out the current trend of English tracks in Hindi filmdom, it comes out in engaging rhyming piece of work with meaningful set of verses ("You told me that the world is a beautiful place, that's the biggest lie I was told on my face...), a thought-provoking background score that can well be played in the ending titles of the flick.
CHILLAR PARTY is a 'bindaas' music album, tailored and crafted for its target set of listeners with couple of impressive soundtracks. Despite the fact that child-fiction albums have always been low-key affair in the marquee, Amit Trivedi's composing efforts can't be undermined as he lived up to every desired situations. In terms of quality and substance, it's no match for HANUMAN or TAARE ZAMEEN PAR, but a decent toil by the entire musical teamwork. The soundtracks that make maximum impact are Chatte Batte, Tai Tai Phish and Ek School Banana Hai while rest of them are decent listening outings.
