Producer/s: Bharat Shah, Vikas Kapoor and Samir Karnik
Director: Samir Karnik
Music: Sajid-Wajid and Monty
Lyrics: Sameer, Jalees Sherwani and Rahul B. Seth
Vocals: Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kunal Ganjawala, Parthiv Gohil, Shail Hada, Sonu Nigam, Soumya Raoh, Sukhwinder Singh, Rekha Rao and Wajid
Label: EROS Music

Boasting of some of the top names of the industry, constituting of the younger (Sohail Khan and Bobby Deol), the middle (Salman and Preity) and the senior brigade (Sunny Deol), Heroes is one of the most awaited projects of the year. The director of the magnum opus Samir Karnik started of with the Amitabh, Vivek and Aishwarya starrer, 'Kyun...! Ho Gaya Na...'. While the movie failed commercially its melodious music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy was highly appreciated. This time around Samir has gone in for Sajid-Wajid and Monty. Let us find out if Samir Karnik's ear for good music is still intact or not!

It's a warm welcome to the two most talented and versatile artists of the music industry, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Sonu Nigam (both of whom have become a rarity these days!) through the highly melodious number, 'Mannata'. The song commences with the superb combining of 'ektara', flute and piano notes and immediately transports the listener to the beautiful lush green and yellow mustard fields of Punjab. The essence is all Punjabi but the melodic content extremely high. Sonu with his absolutely mesmerizing soft vocals spins magic and Kavita is simply fab with her part. Never once does she sounds out of touch, such is her hold over the number which in parts does sound a bit familiar to J.P. Dutta's 'Tu Mera Kaun Laage' (Batwara). All those who are still in love with Sonu's 'Pehli Pehli Baar Baliye' (Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta's Sanghursh) will once again fall in love with his 'Mannata'.

Guitar strums commence 'Mannata-Lover's Paradise mix', an all out instrumental that is a treat in itself. DJ Romeo and DJ Raoul need to be commended for a job done well. Base guitaring, drumming and keyboard notes all hinging on superb synth instruments blend into a marvelously crafted version that may be used as a background rhythm in tense emotional parts of the film.

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