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Paap, HMV Saregama ONE of the finest soundtracks to take off this year, Paap offers a whole range of sounds for the musical palette. Anu Mal...

Paap, HMV Saregama

ONE of the finest soundtracks to take off this year, Paap offers a whole range of sounds for the musical palette.

Anu Malik has resurrected an underrated Anuradha Paudwal with the slow, melancholic Intezaar. Mann Ki Lagan by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s nephew Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is enough to lift the entire album, but you can’t miss the baseline, which sounds uncannily like Marc Anthony’s award-winning She Sang To Me. Of course, Khan’s voice is an awe-inspiring, overpowering force—it’s in the genes.

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Pakistani rock band Junoon’s lead vocalist Ali Azmat doesn’t fail to rise to your expectations either. His Garaj Baras, which he claims was composed on one blissful, rainy evening in the mountains is raw, funky and drenched in rock. Perfect for the heightened drama that unspools on screen—John Abraham, with a fresh bullet wound, gets behind the wheel for what seems like a never-ending drive from Delhi to Spiti as the raging track pierces our senses.

The second Anu Malik track Sun E Mere Dil that shapes up like an Ismail Darbar number—you have to hear it to believe it—is melodic and haunting.

The rest of the soundtrack comprises instrumental score for some of the significant scenes from the film. Take Apna Sa Kuch Dena Chahti Hoon, for instance, where the guitar and piano croon to each other. Or the finale Kis Kis Ko Maro Ge. While these tracks work really well in the film, they are wasted on an OST album—but then, this is not just another album either.