Ballu Mahi (2017)- Music Review by Shoby

Ballu Mahi (2017)- Music Review by Shoby

Haissam Hussain is ready for his upcoming romantic-comedy titled as Ballu Mahi, starring Osman Khalid Butt, Ainy Jaffri and Sadaf Kanwal in prominent roles. Original sound track of the film has recently been released and its our time at Shobywood to have a taste of what this one has in it for us. Music of thie film has been composed by Sahir Ali Bagga.

Rang De Qawali (Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Nazish)- What should be called as a perfect starter for a musical album, this qawali track is a beautiful song that has the feel of our traditional sufi-qawali lyrics Ankhen band Karu To MOLA... TERA MADEENA Aa Jawey... simply takes you away. Right from the word go, this qawali instantly manages to  grab your attention. Sung by the legendary qawal/ singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, this qawali has almost everything that is mandatory for a perfect qawali session. A small portion of Nazish was pitched good enough in between the song to give it a taste of more of a soothing sort of feel.

Balu Mahi (Asim Azhar, Aima Baig)-The title track of the movie comes right after the superb qawali. This foot tapping, peppy dance number is high on energy with mix of Anglo-Urdu lyrics. The track would surely do good in credits or somewhere within the narrative of the film.

Be Chaniyan (Afshan Fawad, Sahir Ali Bagga). A typical Sahir Ali Bagga's composition sung by his own self along with Afshan Fawad, this song starts off like a beautiful slow & steady composition and picks up the pace as the time progress. Afshan has given an excellent warm feel to this track. I personally loved the beautiful usage of guitar & a bit of tabla at the very beginning of the song.

Tu Kya Jane (Sahir Ali Bagga)- As per norms, here we have the soft melody from Sahir which is again sung by himself. This soulful number has some very nice lyrics which effortlessly make your loved one realise, how intense your love is. This composition has the feel of those beautiful sad tracks that takes you somewhere else in nostalgia.

On the whole, it is a very nice album where the team of musician, lyricist & director has tried to put in the flavour of the whole film Ballu Mahi in minimal number of songs. It is interesting to notice that they have managed to provide us a nice mix of different genres in mere four tracks.