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DEBOJIT (Sa Re Ga Ma, Rs.145)
It's now the turn of Debojit of `Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge' to hit the stands. It is easy to find a fan following for a TV series where viewers hardly have to spend anything. It becomes a different ball game when you expect the same viewer to buy your album. Here, Debojit hardly shows any range to interest listeners. All the songs are sung at the same pitch, and there's hardly any pathos. Towards the end, he tries to salvage the album with some old hits, but the effort shows. The only saving grace is "Jeena". Lyrics haven't helped him either. The channel (Zee TV) might keep him floating for some more time, but the writing is on the wall.
KHOOBSURAT (T-Series, Rs.110)
Here is another one from across the border trying to test the water here. But one quite fails to understand why Aadeel Baarki is proclaimed as a "prestigious singer" on the CD jacket. In this incongruous mélange of ghazals, sufi songs, Punjabi pop and bhangra called "Khoobsurat", most of the 13 tracks cannot be heard a second time. The rap is disastrous and weak attempts at fusion go almost unnoticed. Spin-offs of well-known songs, like the third track, "Chamcha" (remember the rollicking Mohammed Rafi song from the film "Jaali Note"? and how the veteran comedian and character actor Om Prakash sings that song composed by the inimitable O. P. Nayyar) are the worst of the lot. The fifth track, "Buliya Ki Jana", makes a sorry musical statement when compared with Rabbi Shergill's profound rendition that captured the soulful imagination of a nation. The last few tracks — mostly ghazals — are tolerable, albeit none of them seem original. His voice is most suitable for the slow sensibility of the ghazal and it would do him a world of good to keep this in mind. A not-so-Khoobsurat album, after all!
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