Music: Anu Malik
Lyrics: Sameer, Dev Kohli, Tejpal Kaur
Singers: Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal, Kumar Sanu, Sarika Kapoor, Shabbir Kumar, Shaswati, Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Udit Narayan, Ujwala, Zubin

After listening to Anu Malik’s first three songs on the CD of Madhur Bhandarkar’s Aan, you’d probably need 300 cups of coffee to keep you awake.

As predictable as thundershowers in the monsoon, Dil Se Dilbar (Kumar Sanu-Anuradha Paudwal), Hamare Baad (Udit Narayan-Shabbir Kumar-Sarika Kapoor-Ujwala) and Jab Tak Rahega (Abhijeet-Anuradha) bore you with their done-to-death tunes, hackneyed orchestrations, Sameer’s ordinary lyrics and long-winding choruses.

Luckily, the album picks up after that. The Sonu Nigam-Alka Yagnik song Hum Aapse has a nice tune, with Sonu singing “Kisi aur se mohabbat na hai, na hui, na hogi”. Kyon Pyar Na Kare is a sad song in two parts, sung expressively by Sonu and Shreya Ghoshal.

Two songs have been designed by Akbar Sami and Jatin. Jugni Ki Payal peps up the mood, but banks on oft-used words like ‘maahi’. ‘sona’ and ‘ishq’. Lord! Nasha Nasha has been sung soulfully by Sunidhi Chauhan, but the highlight is the trancey backdrop. This song is a good contrast in this yawn-heavy Aan.