#88 Mission Kashmir: Top 100 Bollywood Albums

With music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, the Mission Kashmir album had Kashmiri folk music elements in songs like Bumbro, Sochon Ki Jheelon and Rind Posh Maal
#88 Mission Kashmir: Top 100 Bollywood Albums

Movie Details of Mission Kashmir

Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Label: Tips

Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Kashmir's beautiful landscape has inspired a lot of great music in Bollywood across time (latest of which was Fitoor last year), as has the turbulent political situation in the region. Mission Kashmir covered both at length, thereby presenting great scope for a musical. It was still early days for composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – their career-defining Dil Chahta Hai wouldn't come out until a year later – but the trio already had a bunch of promising compositions in their bag.

In Mission Kashmir they would deliver their finest work to that date – in fact one of their best soundtracks ever – that catered to mainstream sensibilities while deftly evoking local folk elements as well (songs like Bumbro and Rind Posh Maal contained references to traditional Kashmiri folk pieces).

Best Song of Mission Kashmir: It is probably the over-exposure to Bumbro and Rind Posh Maal that led me to pay closer attention to the other songs from the album and realise what a gem of a composition Socho Ke Jheelon Ka Sheher Ho is. The melody had a kind of freshness we associate with mountains and early mornings, and became something of a starting point for some of the romantic melodies Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composed later in life. The arrangement is kept sedate, with a touch of folksiness, enhancing the song's charm. And it also helps that in the song's video, Preity Zinta looks like a million dollars wearing the Kashmiri attire. 

The Mission Kashmir Playlist:

  1. Bumbro (Singers: Shankar Mahadevan, Jaspinder Narula, Sunidhi Chauhan | Lyrics: Rahat Indori)
  2. Chupke Se Sun (Singers: Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | Lyrics: Sameer)
  3. Rind Posh Maal (Singer: Shankar Mahadevan | Lyrics: Rahat Indori)
  4. Socho Ke Jheelon Ka  (Singers: Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan | Lyrics: Sameer)
  5. Maaf Karo  (Singers: Vinod Rathod, Anuradha Paudwal | Lyrics: Rahat Indori)
  6. So Ja Chanda (Singer: Mahalaxmi Iyer | Lyrics: Rahat Indori)
  7. Dhuan Dhuan (Singer: Shankar Mahadevan | Lyrics: Rahat Indori)

Listen to the entire album of Mission Kashmir here:

(With contributions by Praveen VR, co-founder of musicaloud.com)

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