Music Review Bobby Jasoos

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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This is a detective thriller with Vidya Balan in the lead and her Parineeta-Lage Raho Munna Bhai music team of Shantanu Moitra and Swanand Kirkire at the musical helm. Expectations are good.

Music:

The music is familiar, sometimes tired and with a heard-before feel. The folk and orchestral influences span a gamut all the way to the North and East for a subject based in Hyderabad.

There are cosmetic additions of South Indian instruments as well as some rock in the Bonnie Chakraborty-Shreya Ghoshal duet 'Jashn', which sounds more like a classic Hindi film song from a post-2010 movie rather than a song that fits the milieu. The lyrics are average, though the Punjabi term 'ainvye' stands out incongruously, when the term 'yun hi' could have been used as 'normal' Hindi without losing the metre! Lyricists today must keep the aptness of lexicon for a subject in mind rather than emptily attempt to be 'with it' or impressive. And Swanand Kirkire is no ordinary talent!

Still, Shreya's vocals (more than Bonnie's) and the choral pattern and rhythms impart a catchy flavour to the song so that all is forgiven!

The next track, 'Tu', is the most evolved of the lot, and is in two versions with just token differences between the main and the reprise versions.

Classical-meets-Sufi-meets-folk in this layered song that is as magnetic as it is familiar in lyrics and musical notes. Papon is an evocative revelation – this is that one song that makes him stand taller than most contemporary Indian folk talents in film music. The orchestration is delightfully soft, soothing and simple and of course Shreya Ghoshal's vocal expertise contributes its own mite (and might) to the splendid melody.

The remaining two tracks are superficial, fun-filled and without any ambition to reach anywhere even in the lightweight genre. 'B.O.B.B. ' (Neeraj Shridhar) gets straight and unapologetically into the zone of identical rhythmic beats to Shantanu-Swanand's popular 'Zooby zooby' duet from 3 Idiots. And the lyrics have a predictable but fun element wherein the lady detective is given a connection to Sherlock Holmes and James Bond ('Sherlock Holmes ki phuphi / Miyan Bond ki hai khaala').

Neeraj is pitched differently and the chorus (Archana Gore- Deepti Rege-Mayuri Patwardhan-Aparna Ulla) does a serviceable job at the end of the song. The Pink Panther – like but desi interludes add an amusing touch.

'Sweety' (Monali Thakur-Aishwarya Nigam) is an over-familiar song with a rustic touch that reminds us of multiple such frothy tracks over the decades. With the vocals set at average levels, and a rather jumbled orchestration, the song is okay while it lasts.

Overall:

This is an average music score – light, situational and non-ambitious. But the Shantanu-Swanand sizzle of Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Parineeta, Lage Raho Munna Bhai and 3 Idiots is missing. As always, the rating is for the commercial prospects.

Our Pick:

'Jashn', 'Tu'

Music: Shantanu Moitra
Lyrics: Swanand Kirkire
Music Labels: T-Series

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