Dil Bole Hadippa!

Pritam's been rather choosy this year. He's worked on only 3 major projects: Billu, New York and Love Aaj Kal, and has only been getting better each time. So you definitely expect some good music in Dil Bole Hadippa!.
Coming to the film, initially the makers wanted to call this film just Hadippa, but Sanjay Leela Bhansali had already registered the name and so they changed the title to Dil Bole Hadippa!. Either way, you expect it to be a hardcore Punjabi album with a genorous dose of bhangra. And that's exactly what the album turns out to be!

1. Hadippa : Mika Singh, the almost perfect man to start the proceedings for any album of this kind(the perfect one being his eldest bro Daler Mehndi), croons this title track and in the process adds another superhit track to his kitty. When I first heard this song on TV, it didn't sound all that impressive; it looked like just another of those loud bhangra songs. But this one's actually good, as I discovered with gradual hearing. If it's picturized when they're playing the all important cricket match ( and winning it of course!), this song has in it to become the next Chak De!.

2. Discowale khisko : Ah, this is the average kind of song I was expecting Hadippa to be. Discowale is no Hadippa. It's only, say, half as good as Hadippa. It's however decent enough to do well enough in the Punjab circuit.

3. Ishq hi rab hai : The only non-bhangra, romantic song in the album, occuring possibly when Shahid is bowled over by Rani (pun intended). It's a melody, not a typical Pritam one though, but good. Sonu Nigam appears well after 3 mins into the song to complement Shreya Ghosal.

4. Bhangra bistar : Well, so we know about the 5 Ks of the Punjabis. Here's a song that introduces you to the 4 Bs of theirs. With Sunidhi Chauhan and Alisha Chinoy singing the number picturized on Rani and Rakhi, the song is bound to do extremely well. Yet another bhangra that's somewhat loud yet not bad at all.

5. Gym shim : Yet another song(yeah, bhangra) that has nothing great, but you wouldn't mind playing it at all. It's as good as Bhangra bistar. This song probably shows the transformation of Rani from Veera Kaur to Veer Pratap Singh.

Thus the album completely justifies the title. No doubt on that. The songs would definitely stay on for a while.