Music directors have made it a standard practice – to incorporate as many elements and styles into a single soundtrack. So you have a garba tune, a bhangra track and an Arabian one besides the usual attempt at disco and rock. There's one for every taste, for all kinds of sensibilities on Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge.
This soundtrack has music by Daboo Malik and the Sajid Wajid duo.
There's Bindya Chamke (Malik, lyrics-Salim Bijnori) rendered by
Alka Yagnik and Sonu Nigam. It's a big production
and rather well orchestrated. There's even a tiny sequence of an electronic
flute that conjures images of the
Swiss Alps in our minds. Now don't ask if it fits into the song's scheme of
things. Kya Hua Tujhe (Daboo,
Salim Bijnori) is a soothing romantic
ballad rendered by Yagnik and Nigam. Malik would have done a brilliant job with Kya
Hua Tujhe but for the far too many breaks in its tempo. Yeh Bekhudi,
Deewangi (music by Sajid Wajid, penned-Jalees Rashid) has a rock opening,
with wailing guitars, a prominent bass line and the stuff, which soon turns into
a simple tune backed by an exquisite sequence on tabla. The track again rises to
a cluttered crescendo, including saz and sitar giving us a feel that the
composers lost focus somewhere during the execution of the track. It's Nigam
who deserves credit for managing to keep this very complicated tune together.
Then there's Mubbarak Eid Mubbarak (music by Sajid Wajid, lyrics-Rashid) rendered by
Nigam, Arvinder Singh and Sneha Pant. In keeping with the
theme of the track, it has an Arabic opening but soon goes into a foot stomping
disco beat. This track's another attempt at national integration with words
like Hindu, Islam, Sikh, Isaai, sab ko salam... Pyaar ka peygaam.
Kyo Khanke Teri Choodi (Sajid Wajid, lyrics-Rashid) and rendered by Yagnik and Kamaal Khan. Khan tries hard but he's still awful. The percussion section on this track sounds offbeat and the lyrics meaningless. Kyo Khanke Teri Choodi ? `Coz it's supposed to is all we care. Mehendi Hai Lagi Mere Hathon Mein (lyrics-Sudhakar Sharma) is a bhangra track and when you have Jaspinder Narula rendering a bhangra number, there's little chance to go wrong. It's a robust high-energy number on which Narula finds able support from Nigam. Main To Ladki Kanwari (lyrics-Rashid) is rendered by Sneha Pant and Nigam. It's a garba track that would get a dead man to dance. And finally there's the bonus track, a club mix of Kyo Khanke Teri Choodi. Lets just says Kamaal doesn't sound any better and remixing can't help a poor tune sound any better.
This soundtrack exhibits brilliance in flashes. Tracks like Bindya Chamke and Kya Hua Tujhe just miss the mark only because of inconsistencies in their tempo. On the whole, not a bad buy.