Mithoon

Is Mithoon the next Himesh? Mithoon is one of the current Bollywood directors who is shooting up in ratings like crazy. And rightly so...His latest, 'The Train' is so much better than the very average/below average music that has been dished out of Bollywood in the last few months.
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom for example from Shankar-Loy is very average at best.

I first heard about this boy wonder in Tere bin, sung by Atif Aslam, who is fantastic talent in himself. I love the sufi sound the paki singer brings to the song. I did not give much thought to Mithoon at that time, but he again delivered with another great song in Anwar called Maula This song was playing on my car in a loop for a long time when it got released. Roop Kumar Rathod has done an excellent song singing it. And my fav part is the last "Dil yahi bola mera Dil yahi bola yara" piece. This is definitely one of the best songs i have heard in a while.

Another great song from the same movie is Tose Naina Laage. Sorry about the video, couldn't find anything better in You tube. Listen to the song with the window minimized to get the full effect. Never heard of Shilpa Rao or Kshitij then, they can be heard all over in Train.

And the guy is only 21!!! Yes just 21 years old.

He has come out with a new movie called The train, where he was replaced for Himesh. Thank god for that.

It has 4 great songs and of course n. number of remixes for each song, which seems to be the norm these days. European mix, groovy mix, Club mix etc etc. I am not against remixes or anything, but i like the originals so much better in the case of Train.

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Beete Lamhein - Kay Kay

Mausam - Kshitij - I am becoming a big Kshitij fan a very subdued performance to keep with the sadness of the song. BTW what kind of name is Kshitij!!

Teri Tamanna - Zubeen of the Ya Ali fame has done a great job.

Woh Ajnabee - Shilpa Rao, Sunidhi watch out. Only downside is Mithoon has tried to sing too, it is ok, but KK would have defly done a better job. I hope doesn't gets into the Himesh mode and starts singing all his songs and self destruct.