Hindi Film music has been my love since childhood. So at the end of another year for our Hindi music industry, I have tried to come up with my own choice of the top 20 songs of 2009.
Film music this year was in great shape with the emergence of some seriously good talent. and that is what made it doubly difficult to choose. Sachin-Jigar enthralled us with their Paki-rockish tunes in Teree Sang. Sharib-Toshi had a few foot-tapping numbers in Jashnn and Jail. Ankur Tewari, an unknown until Aao Wish Karein came along gave us a glimpse of his talent. But the biggest and the most promising of all of them is this chap called Amit Trivedi who followed up his Aamir soundtrack with some remarkable compositions in Dev.D and then the great Iktara from Wake up Sid. There were the veterans like Rahman and Shankar Ehsaan Loy who delivered with Delhi 6 and London Dreams respectively. Pritam, not one to be left behind gave rock hits like All the Best and soothing soulful melodies in Tum Mile and Love Aaj Kal. So who wins this war of the music directors, who came up with the best track of this year? The ranking is based purely on the number of times I put the song on repeat on my stereo. Here they are
Tracks of the year
OSTs of the year
This was a real throw up between S-E-L and Pritam who both had two superhit OSTs each to show for. But for sheer consistency I will have to go with Pritam for having 6/20 songs in the top 20.
After catching 3 idiots this weekend, I can put a list of top 5-10 movies of this year which shouldn't be a difficult task considering there were just 10 hits in this year in what has been a really mediocre year for our Hindi Film industry.
Film music this year was in great shape with the emergence of some seriously good talent. and that is what made it doubly difficult to choose. Sachin-Jigar enthralled us with their Paki-rockish tunes in Teree Sang. Sharib-Toshi had a few foot-tapping numbers in Jashnn and Jail. Ankur Tewari, an unknown until Aao Wish Karein came along gave us a glimpse of his talent. But the biggest and the most promising of all of them is this chap called Amit Trivedi who followed up his Aamir soundtrack with some remarkable compositions in Dev.D and then the great Iktara from Wake up Sid. There were the veterans like Rahman and Shankar Ehsaan Loy who delivered with Delhi 6 and London Dreams respectively. Pritam, not one to be left behind gave rock hits like All the Best and soothing soulful melodies in Tum Mile and Love Aaj Kal. So who wins this war of the music directors, who came up with the best track of this year? The ranking is based purely on the number of times I put the song on repeat on my stereo. Here they are
Tracks of the year
- Yeh Dooriyaan - Love Aaj Kal: LAK (Pritam)
- Masakali - Delhi 6 (A.R. Rahman)
- Kurbaan - Kurbaan (Salim Sulaiman)
- Iktara - Wake Up Sid (Amit Trivedi)
- Dhan Te Nan - Kaminey (Vishal Bharadwaj)
- Maula Mila De - Teree Sang (Sachin-Jigar)
- Main Chala - Jashnn (Nauman Zavaid)
- O Meri Jaan - Tum Mile (Pritam)
- Twist - LAK (Pritam)
- Emotional Atyachaar(Rock version) - Dev.D (Amit Trivedi)
- Barso Re - London Dreams (S-E-L)
- Aasma Odh Kar - 13B (S-E-L)
- Kaminey - Kaminey (Vishal Bharadwaj)
- Aazma Luck(Shruti Hassan version) - Luck (Salim Sulaiman)
- Genda Phool - Delhi 6 (A.R. Rahman)
- Nazaara Hai - 8 x 10 Tasveer (Salim-Sulaiman)
- Tu Hi Haqeeqat - Tum Mile (Pritam)
- Dil Kare - All the Best (Pritam)
- Rasiya - Kurbaan (Salim Sulaiman)
- Martaba - All the Best (Pritam)
OSTs of the year
- Love Aaj Kal : Pritam
- Wake up Sid : S-E-L/Amit Trivedi
- Tum Mile : Pritam
This was a real throw up between S-E-L and Pritam who both had two superhit OSTs each to show for. But for sheer consistency I will have to go with Pritam for having 6/20 songs in the top 20.
After catching 3 idiots this weekend, I can put a list of top 5-10 movies of this year which shouldn't be a difficult task considering there were just 10 hits in this year in what has been a really mediocre year for our Hindi Film industry.
