Album Review A fizzling musical feast By N K Deoshi
After the successful musical scores of Refugee and Josh, Anu Malik spins a hat trick with Fiza.
The film, directed by critic-turned-director Khalid Mohammad, has Hrithik Roshan, Karisma Kapoor and Jaya Bachchan in the lead roles.
Khalid Mohammad, it seems, was not content in having the songs written by one songwriter and has therefore tabbed on the lyrical contribution by many lyricists like Gulzar, Sameer, Shaukat Ali, Tejpal Kaur.
Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan open the album with the poetic ‘Aaja mahiya’ which begins like 'Aa dhup maloo hathon mein’. The song has everybody’s heartthrob Hrithik jiving with Neha.
Then there is ‘Mehboob mere’ in which both the singers Sunidhi Chauhan and Karsan Sargathiya drool Tejpal Kaur’s lyrics in a slightly tipsy intonation. Sushmita Sen does a stint in the movie for this song only.
Gulzar is again at his poetic best in ‘Tu fiza hai’, which is beautifully rendered by Sonu Nigam who, however, stems a little disappointment in 'Gaya gaya dil’.
The piece de resistance of Fiza, however, is the prayer ‘Piya hazi ali’ – composed by A. R. Rahman. Kadar Ghulam Mustafa and Mutaza Ghulam Mustafa render the song, written by Shaukat Ali, in the style of qawwaali. Then Jaspinder Narula picks the heart-rending pitch in ‘Na leke jao’ which is followed by Rajit Barrot’s musical medley ‘Mere watan: Amaan’s fury’. The album closes with Asha Bhosle’s vocal genius in delectable ‘Aankh milaoongi’.
Anu Malik has come up with quite a good musical score this time. He seems to have put his musical adventurisms on the shelf and has kept the music simple and melodious. Gulzar has once more done wonders with his quill, but it is A.R.Rahman who steals the show with his prayer song ‘Piya Haji Ali’.
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