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Credits
Producer/s:	Mukesh and Vishesh Bhatt
Director:	Mohit Suri
Music:	Pritam (also arranger for "Tu Jo Nahin") and Roop Kumar Rathod
Lyrics:	Sayeed Quadri, Neelesh Misra and Shakeel Azmi
Vocals:	Glenn John, James, Jawad Ahmad, Kunal Ganjawala, Kay Kay and Shreya Ghoshal
Label:	T-Series

After ruling the music charts and pleasantly surprising the box-office with 'Zeher' and 'Kalyug', director Mohit Suri is back once again with 'Woh Lamhe'. Needless to add, that we music buffs are too excited to say the least, as both the above-mentioned movies had music to die for. And with Pritam fresh from the success of 'Gangster' expectations soar even higher. So let's turn on the volume and check out the latest offering from the Bhatt camp.

The album opens with the light, frothy rocking Bhatt style composition 'Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai'. Unfortunately, right from the start, including the base guitar strumming and Kay Kay's base vocals, this song is a blatant rip off from Indonesian band Peterpan's composition 'Tak Bisakah'. One has to hear it to believe it. All that Pritam has done is refurbish it. The only person that deserves credit is the lyricist Neelesh Misra who has done a wonderful job. Sample a few lines - "Kyun aaj kal neend kam khwaab zyada hai. Lagta khuda ka koi nek irada hai. Kal tha faqeer aaj dil shehzaada hai. Lagta khuda ka koi nek irada hai. Kya mujhe pyaar hai..."

All the same, not many in India (will) know about 'Tak Bisakah' and so will love this one. Unless and until, like Kuwait's Guitara ('Ya Ghali' copied as 'Ya Ali'), Peterpan decides to sue Pritam.

DJ A-Myth and DJ Kiran deserve a pat on their back for spicing up and presenting us with a super sounding remixed version of 'Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai'.

The Bangladeshi rockstar James is back after truly rocking us with his 'Bheegi Bheegi' ('Gangster'). But unlike previously, where he got to sing the Hindi adaptation of late Gautam Chatterji excellent Bengali composition 'Pritibhi', this time he gets to render a semi-motivational cum love ballad 'Chal Chale' by Pritam, which is not in the same league. The musical arrangements are low keyed. The mouth organ piece, along with the orchestra dominated plates and James excellent rendition (specially his much loved high pitched crooning) makes it a super number, which may take a while to grow on us.

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