All songs are awesome. The first track is enough to get you hooked and gravitating to the dance floor: “Baby Ko Bass Pasand Hai, ” as sung by Vishal Dadlani, Shalmali Kholgade, Ishita and Badshah, is that potent combination of different words and music that comes all too rarely nowadays in the ‘happy song’ space. So far as director Abbas Ali Zafar goes, this is his “Toone Maari Entriyaan” from his last film “Gunday, ’ which interestingly again, had Dadlani as one of the singers. Dadlani belts out this song with his customary breezy flair, and the folk element is prominent both in the composition(and arrangements) and words. What I liked about the song is that it sounds wholesome despite a very contemporary hook.
In fact, Irshad Kamil is the real Sultan of the music score, writing some of his best and most variegated lyrics here, with simple yet meaningful verse(the most difficult to conceive and pen, that is). In this song itself, he writes lines like “Usski ankhiyaan English bole / Meri anpadh ankhiyaan re(Her eyes speak in English, whereas mine are illiterate!)” and “Phir woh DJ se jaake boli / Bhaiya tu decide kariyo /Ab beat chale ya goli(She told the DJ to decide whether he would prefer to play great beats or take a bullet).”
