MUSIC REVIEW: Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam

It's one thing listening to assembly line tracks. But it's a completely different ballgame listening to trash being sold under the name of original music.

Listen: Maan Gaye Mugal-E-Azam songs

The CD cover of Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam has Mallika Sherawat showing off her waxed legs, Rahul Bose holding a gun in one hand and a rose in another, Paresh Rawal dressed as a Mughal emperor and Kay Kay Menon trying to strum a guitar. And that is pretty much what is interesting about this music CD.

The album has seven songs of which two are remix versions. The first track, Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya is not a remix of the original in Mughal-E-Azam. It is instead a rehash of sorts, which bores you after the second minute. [On the sets of Mughal-E-Azam with Mallika]

This is pretty much the story with all the other numbers. But the worst of the lot is the Pankaj Udhas song – Ek to sharab kum. The guy groans, moans and has the harmonium for company. Things get worse when a couple of songs later there comes a 'Part II' to the song!

If you aren't already suicidal, there's Marmari baahen and its remix version and Ishqaiyaan and its remix version too. If these four numbers don't drive you to the edge, frankly nothing else will. Sample the lyrics of Ishqaiyaan: Aaj mood hai Ishqaiyaan… dhadkan bole taa thaiyya dil me hoti gudgudiyan! Never mind the translations. Don't bother translating these but written by Sanjay Chhel (who has also written and directed this movie) the lyrics rarely touch zero on the scale of minus one to ten.

Frankly after having heard all sorts of music albums in the recent past, it seems to me that I'd rather have an assembly line track, with hooks that make it catchy and saleable than have something as 'original' as this one.

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Album: Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam | Venus | CD: Rs 125