Project : BollyHood

It’s no wonder that Singh Is King was one of the most expensive sound tracks of the year. Collabs with the Snoop Doggy Dog itself cost 7 Corores (thats RS 70000000 =$ 466000). Then came the cost of hiring RDB brothers,Tigerstyle brothers, HardKaur, DJ Jay Dabhi, Labh Janjua ! Even I can’t absorb the fact that all these A list  musicians were brought together for this album. But was this cost justified?

First of all, Jay’s remix of Talli Hua was not the original mix (look back for the original mix for FREE DOWNLOAD), and personally, i think the Snoop collab is just over hyped. It didn’t even catch my attention when it was playing on TV, Akshay is better on the camera and NOT on the mic. Please, if you know him, keep him away from it!

Tigerstyle’s Bas Ek King with HardKaur had a much better energy level. I was glad to see a remix of Bhooti Ke  that wasn’t a club mix, . It seems that every bollywood remix has to be club mix, just putting in a standard b-line and some effects.Thumbs up for TS

On first listen of Jee Karda Remix, i though it sounded very like Groove Armada’s Get Down (the crazy bunny video) but i’d say the track turned out to be pretty neat. The original version was more bhangra/hip-hop but was equally body moving.

Finally the sound crew of the bollywood films have managed to realise Shaan and Sonu Nigam don’t sound great singing piunjabi tunes. A sigh of relief when i heard Mika, Daler and Labh Janjua doing the punjabi. Hopefully we’ll see more of them.

Overall i’d give it a 7 out of 10 for the efforts of bringing the best musicians together, and who helped tiped the scale to the better side with their remixes.  Without the remixes, i don’t know how well this OST would survive.

Singh Is Kinng - Singh Is Kinng
Singh Is Kinng - Jee Karda
Singh Is Kinng - Bas Ek Kinng
Singh Is Kinng - Bhootni Ke
Singh Is Kinng - Teri Ore
Singh Is Kinng - Talli Hua
Singh Is Kinng - Bas Ek Kinng (Tiger Style Mix)
Singh Is Kinng - Bhootni Ke (Tiger Style Mix)
Singh Is Kinng - Talli Hua (Jay Dabhi Mix) NOT ORIGINAL JD REMIX THO!
Singh Is Kinng - Jee Karda (Remix)
Singh Is Kinng - Teri Ore (Lounge Mix)
Singh Is Kinng - Bhootni Ke (Remix)