T series to release incomplete 'Babul' music album
By IANS
Oct 27, 2006, 20:33

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Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS): It is a baffling state of affairs. While T Series prepares for the music release of Ravi Chopra's family drama ‘Babul’ on Thursday, music composer Aadesh Shrivastava was busy till Wednesday night recording a song with his idol Amitabh Bachchan. “Amitji has sung two songs for 'Babul'. One of them needed technical correction. So, we had to re-do it,” Aadesh Shrivastav informs.

But then how can the music be released in an incomplete form? Aadesh shrugged. “I suppose it's just the release function. The marketing will happen after I submit the final song, though the decision is entirely the music company's.”

Aadesh is mighty excited about the music. “Amitji doesn't sing for any other composer these days. But he'd never say no to me. I'm his Hanuman. In fact I wanted him to sing one more track. But it's a Qawwalli. And Amitji wasn't comfortable with it." Apparently Amitabh wanted Shankar Mahadevan to sing the Qawwalli. And that would've been one more composer using another composer's voice, after A.R. Rahman getting Bappi Lahiri to sing in ‘Guru’ and Pritam inviting Vishal Dadlani to croon ‘Dhoom 2’. “I opted for good old Sudesh Bhosle who does a superb take-off on the Amitji baritone."

Also the music release of the album of ‘Baabul’ will be an unusual and extraordinary affair. The star cast of Baabul including Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherji and John Abraham will walk on the ramp with their screen looks in the film on Thursday during the music release of the film. They will wear different looks designed by Neeta Lulla, Alvira Khan, Narendra Kumar Ahmed and Sabyasachi. There will be few more attractions like fusion Bhangra and hip-hop and rap songs in Big B’s voice. Also Sonu Nigam will also present a classical number ‘Baawri Piya’.




My verdict!! Pale as compare to orig Baghban, lots HYPE HOP though!

CD is out, just got it!! will listen and report to Elites here!

Results are not as delightful as I expected! : entire album is like pheeka pakwan, that some one skipped adding salt to!

I saw Baabul yesterday. Ultimately the film itself wasn't bad even though it was plagued with a very slow-moving first half. In fact, right at the intermission mark, the film seemed to completely shift gears into quite a solid film. I also found the message of the film to be bold and convincing (in dealing with re-marriage). Amitabh and Rani, while a bit limited still gave decent performances. Salman thankfully, was used just as he was needed, and not really so in the more dramatic sections of the film. Not bad, not the best thing you'll see, but I guess you can call it a timepass.

For the hoards of character actors who pretty much make blink-and-miss appearances in the movie, this doctor can only say one thing – for God’s sake get a casting agent!

And finally for all those planning to experience “Baabul”, this doctor suggests staying home and watching “Baghban” instead because with “Baabul”, Mr. Chopra’s intentions are clearly there, his execution is not.

This doctor’s shift is now over.

Movie Review : 'Baabul' makes a mess of widow remarriage


Producer: B R Chopra
Director: Ravi Chopra
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan, John Abraham, Om Puri, Sarika
Music: Aadesh Shrivastava, DJ Suketu


When you have everything going for you, including a top star-cast and a powerful socially relevant theme, it isn't easy to mess things up. But 'Baabul' does exactly that.

Just why or how director Ravi Chopra manages to make a monumental mess out of a potentially explosive drama is a matter worthy of an inquiry commission.

Years ago Raj Kapoor had cast Padmini Kolhapure as a carefree girl who's transformed into a weeping widow in 'Prem Rog'. She finally marries her beloved from the past amidst a tumult of societal protest.

Writer Achala Nagar adopts the same framework but she forgets that times have changed and widow remarriage isn't quite the burning issue it used to be two decades ago, especially in the case of modern families like the one shown in this film.

The first half of the film, where Avinash (Salman Khan) marries Mili (Rani Mukerji), is replete with loud celebratory songs. The choreography, artwork and cinematography are more suited to the social dramas of the 1960s than a contemporary work.

It's shocking to see how clumsily Ravi Chopra handles the familial inter-relationships and how much of his inspiration comes from tried-and-tested cinema.


The buddy-buddy bonding between dad Amitabh Bachchan and son Khan has been done in films as diverse as Vipul Shah's 'Waqt' and Karan Johar's 'Kabhi Alvidaa Na Kehna', not to forget Yash Chopra's 'Kabhi Kabhie' in a much earlier decade.

It's in the second-half when Bachchan goes husband-hunting for his widowed daughter-in-law that the director gets a grip on the main drama. It may not be too late to salvage the widow's wrecked domesticity but it's certainly too late to save the film from its catastrophic conventional drama.

'Baabul' is filled with superfluous scenes of family bonding, seen mainly through clumsily choreographed songs. The characters are too busy posing and preening to get under the skin of the roles.

Bachchan and Rani, however, make a genuine effort to light a spark in the dark. There are flashes of genuine drama between the two after Avinash's death but moments of tragic resonance are often frittered away in pursuit of glamour.

Ravi Chopra's previous film 'Baghban', about old age and negligence, worked mainly because of the superb chemistry between the lead pair - Bachchan and Hema Malini.


In 'Baabul', one feels Bachchan and Hema Malini are being forced to fake the couple's camaraderie. Their singing and dancing fails to recreate their 'Baghban' magic.

As for Nagar's dialogues - it's been a while since we heard anyone in a mainstream Hindi film scream, 'Ruko ... yeh shaadi nahin ho sakti!'. That's what poor Om Puri, playing Bachchan's super-conservative brother, is reduced to doing.

Puri should consider himself to be lucky. At least he gets to speak. Some of the supporting cast, including Sarika who plays a silently suffering widow, barely get to open their mouth in this otherwise over-talkative film.

Salman and John, as the two men in the leading lady's life, are cocky and self-conscious respectively. The clothes they wear, the songs they sing and the dialogues they mouth could probably be held responsible.

The onus of sustaining the drama falls entirely on Bachchan and Rani. The latter's growth as an actor since Sanjay Bhansali's 'Black' has been steady and remarkable. Rani proves that she is far ahead of her contemporaries despite the film's basic flaws. If you must watch the film, watch it for Rani!


© Copyright 2006 by MusicIndiaOnLine.com

** Sanjay and Rana to comment please

I don't watch movies by the likes of Ravi Chopra at the theaters. I'll wait and watch it on DVD, that is if I even get around to watching it at all. Can't really stand any more of this melodramatic crap, specially with Salman there to make faces in the name of acting and Amitabh making a fool of himself dancing (prancing around) in the film.

Well said! Sallu miyan's, 3rd flop may be Salam e Ishq, where he is leading umpteen prank stas!

caught up this on dvd!! that was even worse than vivah!! It is stale story, but viewable, not one of the worst I have seen, not tear jerker either!!

I did not mind sallu for whatever he was there to do, John was ok too!!Amitabh dependable!!Hema..looser. Rani ok!!Sarika's few minutes, were really strong , she excels on expressions, body language without saying much!

overall!!Another bachancentric film!

I mostly liked both Baabul and Vivah. The latter somehow just struck the right notes with me; the former: Amitabh Bachchan was fantastic (especially in his climactic performance at the end of the film; also, in his rendering of "Kehta Hai Baabul"), Salman Khan was very good, and Rani Mukherjee was more than dependable. I feel that more could have happened in the second half, and that the depictions of the "villains" were about as poor as ever; but, overall, Baabul worked for me.

me 2!!that was the point, whatever happened i think movie did not make enough case for it!

john's wardrobe was kool too as far rani being dependable and amitabh class act!imho, at this stage of their carear this should be bottom line same said for kajol, Aamir in Fanaa!!

If they cant delievrer at least this much in author based roles then