Directed by Soham Shah - onetime assistant to Karan Johar and Ram Gopal Verma, this movie is presented by both Shahrukh Khan and Karan Johar.

Does anyone know if its website's up and running? I see they have started airing promos (at least in North America). Looks nice, but then which promos dont, hanh?

For a second the movie reminded me of that Micheal Douglas-Val Kilmer starrer about lions in Africa - THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS, but that was only because of close-up shots of a tiger I guess.....overall it seems interesting enough. No songs for this movie either, just the one as the titles roll up in the beginning - COMPANY ishtyle.

per DU guru here, Audio coming out next week and will be block buster!
Expect another KHNH from SEL/JAVAID/Karan..

BTW!! seems like Karan is ready to change partner He is too generous to our hunk, John Abraham?

Music review here;

http://www.indiafm.com/musicreview/05/kaal/index.shtml

Ali

It is a copy of predator?or rather Ghost in the darkness!!

devgan's ugly self and all copies damn it!!
he is also I am sam!!

Honestly speaking, it will sell, and that is unforunate as dhoom did too.

My only problem with this music or any Karan's music is that he tries to mold the composer into his shava shava, mahive, kkhh mold! and that sucks imho. It takes creativity/orignality/freshness away from originality of composer!

My problem with Lucky was , despite good tunes, overall impact is stinky popish like any of Sami's pop album.

Here, if u listen carefully, Johar made Salim Suleman, mix, KHNH Qawali with his own, Mahive, etc and add spin of Dhoom Machale, and ladies and gentlemen..I present you Tauba Tauba!!

Lyrics Suck too.Damn all that English Shit to Woo new generation away from goodness of good poetry and good music!

Salim Suleman's arrangements and orchestration is very good, but it is Karan the half man, who tries again his Its time for disco crap..

More so, Those stinky old KKHH etc JOHAR MIX, is really bad for the album. It totally defies goodness of KAAL music!

Look at the inlay, it is again Johar's partner SRK in his Womanish attire created by partner Karan, looking HE GODESS doing tauba tauba, in MHN kinda style!

Overall, I'll give it not more than 6-7/10. even it sells a billion albums.

personally, the only song I liked was ara’s ‘nassa nassa’ - imo karan should have kept salim-sulaiman to just doing the score and let ara take care of the music

Now Miyan arsh... I will difffer with u here. Not that I am a fan of recent hindi music ..but this album is quite well made..esp for 3 songs...(both the Sun Zara !) and of cos....the piece-de-resistance !...Lucky Lips !!!!!! I wonder how come Asha Bhonsle is able to pull it off, even at this age. Compare it with Lata Mangeshkar..I couldnt even recognize her voice !

Sony´ Sacrifice ´Kisna´ For ´Kaal´ , Free In ´1 Plus 1´ Scheme
By: Abid
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One of the most classy and beautiful composition , ´Kisna - The Warrior Poet´ , is being sacrificed and insulted for commercial gains .

The audio company ´Sony´ , is now offering the audio for free in a ´1 Plus 1´ scheme with their recent launch ´Big Hits ´( a collection of songs from some of their recent releases) .

They have instructed their retailers to give some additional concession and get rid of the stock (for which they have been assured a compensation later) and concentrate on promoting/selling ´Kaal´ .

When we talked to our sources at ´Sony´ , they put their point forward and blamed Ghai for miserly terms at which they had to distribute/market the audio of the ´Mukta Music´ album .

I did commit, asha and Sonu are saving grace of album, trying to lift it beyond pop.

I might add sun zara, only by sonu is good.

if i have to listen to another of adnan's pop albums, as they r good in their rights, why i would listen to lucky then!

Kaal has horrible songs

no substance, all sound the same..a bunch of mesh mash

5/10 suits it!!

Producer: Red Chillies Entertainment/Karan Johar/Shah Rukh Khan
Director: Soham Shah
Starring: Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi, Esha Deol, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Shah Rukh Khan (sp. app.), Malaika Arora (Sp. app.)


Music: Salim-Suleiman, Anand Raaj Anand, Kailash Kher, Bobby Friction.
Lyrics: Shabbir Ahmed, Jeanne, Anand Raaj Anand

Singers: Kunal Ganjawala, Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Richa Sharma, Caralisa, Ravi "Rags" Khote, Salim, Kailash Kher, Jeanne, Vijay Prakash.
Audio On: Sony
Number of Songs: 7
Released on: March 14, 2005
Reviewed by: Shahid Khan
Reviewer's Rating: 5 out of 10
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One of the things that strike you about the "Kaal" soundtrack is the way that everything is so fast, so quick and so desperate to be hip. It is like junk food. The more you eat junk takeaway stuff, the more you hanker after real homemade food. It is no surprise then that after listening to "Kaal", I found myself wanting to listen to real quality music. All the tracks on here are so aggressive and so overdone that you can barely tell the difference between the songs. They all mesh together in a bland melange of "hey look at me I can speak English!" songs.

Not that I am saying that all the songs are particularly bad (based on starpower, a couple will be chartbusters for sure). The album lacks the depth that a film soundtrack should have. Furthermore, it seems that the filmmakers and music directors couldn´t be bothered to check the quality of the lyrics and the musical/vocal arrangements. Shabbir Ahmed has written the Hindi lines in the songs while Jeanne has provided the English words.

"Tauba Tauba", "Kaal Dhamaal" and "Nassa Nassa" all are very similar to one another. Out of these, the best is "Tauba Tauba", which features the breezy voices of Kunal Ganjawala, Richa Sharma, Sonu Nigam and Sunidhi Chauhan. It starts off with the soft "O mahiya O mahiya" but the calm effect is ruined by the rapping. That is the only low point, the rest is a snappy and addictive ride. It is entertaining to listen to all the artists sing along at the same time (an enjoyment that is rare nowadays) and the terse ending of "tauba tauba!" is effective.

Kunal sings along with Caralisa, Ravi "Rags" Khote and Salim for "Kaal Dhamaal". The fluteopening reminds me of the beginning of "Dhoom Machaale" ("Dhoom"). The tune sounds like it has just been made up on the spot in the recording studio. The backing singers and the rapping artists make this song an occasionally intolerable listening experience. Yet other parts of the song are more agreeable due to the sheer force of Kunal´s charismatic voice. Uff, what a waste of a potentially good song yaar! This one is picturised on Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora and should be a video to watch out for. Remember the heat that the pair generated with "Chaiya Chaiya" ("Dil Se...")?

Since "Nassa Nassa" is also in a similar mould, you would think it was composed by the same musical team. In fact the last two songs have been scored by Salim-Suleiman while Anand Raaj Anand has done the work (music and lyrics) for "Nassa Nassa". Here, you start to get suspicious about who is in charge of the music score. The incoherent rapping is in all of the songs and it is possible that it might have been insisted on by the producers against the music directors´ will. What else could explain the way that three music producers (Kailash Kher included, below) have come up with songs in similar style with remix beats and cheesy English lyrics? Back to "Nassa Nassa", Sonu Nigam and Sunidhi Chauhan have lent their voices to this one. When even "Kamaal Dhamaal" begins to sound better, you can tell that this is nothing to write home about.

Kailash Kher provides the only number that can be made truly distinguishable from the other songs in the album. He has composed and given his voice to "Ankhiyan Teriya Ve". His synthesised voice adds the punch to this Punjabi pop track. He is quite like Sukhwinder Singh in that his voice is always full of masti. The music and instrumentation is quite good but the female voice is distracting. Her English words, taken from "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor, which featured in the Hollywood film "Rocky III", seems out of place in a Punjabi song..

Next up is "Kaal Dhamaal - The Tiger Mix", a remix by Bobby Friction and The Infinite Scale. You wonder why there is a need for a remix when the original sounds like a remix anyway. This does not sound any better than the original and is just about bearable.

"Dharma Mix" is a remix medley of favourite songs from Dharma productions such as "Pretty Woman" and "Aaja Mahive" ("Kal Ho Naa Ho"), "Bole Chudiyan" and "Say Shava Shava" ("Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham") and "Koi Mil Gaya" ("Kuch Kuch Hota Hai"). I shuddered as I listened to these mostly hummable tracks being destroyed by unattractive remix noise. Remixing is an art and even the best classics can sound great in a remix. No art or careful thought has gone into these remix pieces. Just noise and senseless beats have been added to these tracks.

Rather better than the "Dharma Mix" is the "Jungle Mix". Vocals are by Caralisa, Jeanne and Vijay Prakash. Effort has been made into giving the number a jungle ambience and the result is an appreciable musical piece. It shouldn´t be a surprise as this is the theme music for "Kaal" and Salim-Suleiman have always given effective background/theme scores. After this, there are bonus tracks (but only on CDs) of "Koi Mil Gaya" ("Kuch Kuch Hota Hai"), "You Are My Soniya" ("Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham"), "Mahi Ve" ("Kal Ho Naa Ho"), "Bole Chudiyan" ("Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham") and "It´s The Time To Disco" ("Kal Ho Naa Ho").

It is clear that Karan Johar has tried to be very different and unpredictable with the music of "Kaal". But I feel that he might have interfered too much with the soundtrack, he did not let the music producers get on with their own thing. When left to their own devices, Salim-Suleiman have proved that they can come up with an unusual strong rock/pop soundtrack like "Darna Mana Hai". With "Kaal", however, they only seem to be a shadow of their usual selves.


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Rita...yeah I disagreed with arsh on that front... Looks like I am vindicated....

http://www.indiafm.com/feature/05/mar/2 ... ndex.shtml

Indeed the Knocker of the album is..Lucky Lips !!!! Cant imagine Asha Bhonsle singing that song..for a 16 year old ...but yeah she did that !