Milliblog Annual Music round-up 2010

Here we go again…at the end of another calendar year…another annual round-up. 2010 was a phenomenal year for Hindi film music and Indipop; an average year for all 4 South Indian language film music.
The lists here are in order of preference.

Hindi

Mainstream Hindi film music had a wonderful year, yet again. It was clearly Amit Trivedi’s show..a fact that he sealed with a national award for Dev.D! The other composers who really made a mark include Vishal and Shekhar. Their consistency in making highly listenable music was marred only by the kind of projects that came to them. And, some of the most unheard, underrated music made its mark too, at least on Milliblog – soundtracks like Soch Lo, for instance. When it comes to listing the top 3 soundtracks of the year, Uddan tops the list clearly for me – it was a triumph of a fantastic film and even better music by Amit. Vishal Shekhar’s Anjaana Anjaani may be have drubbed severely as a film, but it was one of the few soundtracks of the year that was listenable back to back, almost every single track of it. I also had a tough time choosing the 3rd one – it was a difficult toss between No One Killed Jessica and Striker, but I choose to go with the latter because of the sheer vibrancy a multi-composer soundtrack like that offered.



As for the actual list of songs, considering the number of requests that came last year asking me to list the ones I had removed from the top 10, I’ve added an extended list of the top 30!

Composer of the year: Amit Trivedi

Top 3 Hindi OSTs of 2010

01. Udaan (Amit Trivedi)
02. Anjaana Anjaani (Vishal Shekhar)
03. Striker (Yuvan Shankar Raja, Amit Trivedi, Swanand Kirkire, Shailendra Barve, Vishal Bharadwaj and Blaaze)

Top 10 Hindi songs of 2010

01. Udaan (Udaan, Amit Trivedi)
02. Ranjha ranjha (Raavan, A R Rahman)
03. Mera yahaan kaun (Soch Lo, Nitesh Pires)
04. Dilli (No One Killed Jessica, Amit Trivedi)
05. Hairat (Anjaana Anjaani, Vishal Shekhar)
06. Uff teri ada (Karthik Calling Karthik, Shankar Ehsaan Loy)
07. Lehrein (Aisha, Amit Trivedi)
08. Man lafanga (Lafangey Parindey, R.Anandh)
09. Tarkeebein (Band Baaja Baaraat, Salim Sulaiman)
10. Adhoore (Break Ke Baad, Vishal Shekhar)

The 10 that did not make it!

11. Cham cham (Striker, Shailendra Barve)
12. Madno (Lamhaa, Mithoon)
13. Call me dil (Jhootha Hi Sahi, A R Rahman)
14. Jab mila tu (I Hate Luv Storys, Vishal Shekhar)
15. Yun hua (Striker, Vishal Bharadwaj)
16. Geet mein (Udaan, Amit Trivedi)
17. Aitbaar (No One Killed Jessica, Amit Trivedi)
18. Dedh inch oopar (Soch Lo, Charu Moohan)
19. Aisha (Aisha, Amit Trivedi)
20. Kaare kaare badra (Mirch, Monty Sharma)
The remaining 10 that I had to rudely drop out of the top 20!
21. Bombay Bombay (Striker, Amit Trivedi)
22. Hey ya (Karthik Calling Karthik, Shankar Ehsaan Loy)
23. Dil to bachcha hai ji (Ishqiya, Vishal Bharadwaj)
24. Aye khuda (Paathshaala, Hanif Sheikh)
25. Pee loon (Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, Pritam)
26. Tujhe bhula diya (Anjaana Anjaani, Vishal Shekhar)
27. Munni badnaam (Dabangg, Lalit Pandit)
28. Mayya Yeshodha (Jhootha Hi Sahi, A R Rahman)
29. Title song (Guzaarish, Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
30. Sheila ki jawani (Tees Maar Khan, Vishal Shekhar)

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