Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar and Tushar Kapoor - the last time they came together in ' Khakee ', each of them won applause for their bravura performance. They unite once again in Khakee's producer Keshu Ramsay's yet another action drama ' Insan ', that is directed by K. Subaash (not to be confused with B.Subhash) and stars Lara Dutta. Esha Deol, Koena Mitra and Laila as the lead heroines. Though the look of the movie is not as slick as ' Khakee ' and the promotion too is solely aimed at the lovers of hardcore 'masala' movies, 'Insan' seems to be one of those reasonable budgeted actioners that guarantee a safe return of investment. One needs to see if the audience will be glad to lap up this movie at the beginning of the new year 2005 when classy movies like ' Kisna ' and ' Black ' would be lined up for release. Mr. Consistent Himesh Reshammiya, who always comes up (at the least) with a couple of hummable tunes in every movie composes while his counterpart Sameer writes.

Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik come together in ' Chunri Re ' to oblige Reshammiya ad Sameer once again with a chapter on ' Chunri ' taking away someone's 'Dil'! Well, enough seems to be enough and this time around the audience's reaction would be of plain boredom. After all for how long can one listen to the same story in exactly the same setup, time and again. You feel it's a quick skip but then the 'Instrumental' comes up. So here we go with a double 'skip'!

A routine duet follows next that is a continued saga of an argument around 'O God! Why did you make me fall in love?' in the form of ' Rabba Mere Rabba '. Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik are made to follow the much-walked path. A stock tune for sure, the only highlight of ' Chunri Re ' and ' Rabba ' is the emergence of Esha Deol in a 'latak-jhatak' avtaar where she seems more comfortable than before in a regular Bollywood antic. Also follows a (but natural) sad version of the same song by Alka Yagnik and an ' Instrumental '! And everyone thought we would be most pleased to lend our ears to them! OK, so the songs so far are definitely not bad or downright rejects. But then you have heard these tunes so many time before that you loose count.

Himesh Reshammiya and Shaan come on their own in ' Rain Rain ' that has the base music of ' Dilli Ki Sardi ' from Zameen . A racy track, it has Sunidhi Chauhan giving company to Shaan and designed as a youthful song. Sorry, but things go awry here as well and fail to impress. Another stock tune, another case of predictability, another bore! And to think of it, there is a solo of the same by Sunidhi Chauhan too that follows soon after.

Thankfully Sonu Nigam does some damage control by singing a smooth melodious track ' Khwahish '. Hold on before you think it may make a place for itself as one of the Top 20 songs of 2004. No, that's not the case but then the lineage of the songs before this one makes it the best as far as this album is concerned. Alka Yagnik is the female voice in the song that inspite of being 'just another song' manages to make you at least sit through its duration.

Kunal Ganjawala and Sunidhi Chauhan gang-up to heat up the scene in ' Is Tarah Deewane '. While Ajay Devgan and Koena Mitra make the best out of the situation, the tune and the beats are so mundane that you give a sigh of relief once the number is over.

Music of ' Insan ' is so very routine that you wonder if rights of some other movie's songs could have been bought straightaway instead of any new compositions. Sales of the album before or even after the movie's release is never going to be earth-shattering and the music would soon be forgotten. Chances are very remote that even a select segment of audience would really go gaga over the music and storm the music stores.

Avoidable!

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