One Two Three:

Rating : **
One Two Three , a situational comedy of mistaken identities won’t be identified as a musical comedy but rather a situational track album. Raghav Sachar who started in films with Kabul Express and has been composing and singing on and off ever since, gets to compose an entire film album this time. And he exploits the opportunity to hilt doubling up as a singer in almost every song of the album.
The title track opens on a very conventional note following a one-two-three beat pattern. Kunal Ganjawala is husky as always but its Raghav Sachar’s vocals that give the song a different flavour. That’s because he sings for the female portion as well, something which only Kishore Kumar had experimented in Half Ticket (1962) for the funny track O Saawariya. Raghav modulates his voice to such feminine perfection that, unless told, it’s difficult to identify that a male is singing in female voice. Since the less-heard Raghav comes with a virgin voice, it becomes all the more difficult to discover his deceit.
The ‘ Club Mix’ is your regular remix with added beats and fast pace. The ‘Ballad’ version is kind of a de-mix with zero orchestration and only the tune playing in pure harmony. The ‘Amalgamation’ version has added bhangra and qawalli segments to the hip-hop track. Lyrics are adapted in the tune of the trademark qawalli number Yeh Ishq Ishq Hain and the basic bhangra folk tune. Kaptaan Laadi manages the bhangra while Kailash Kher takes care of the qawalli. Clearly a situational number in the film, the song is interspersed with dollops of humour in its ridiculously amusing shayaaris and even a Spiderman theme song blended in between. This one promises more visual humour.
‘I Wanna Guy’ is your customary item number in Sunidhi Chauhan’s voice and, as the title suggests, is about a girl describing her dream man. The track is traditional to the point the verse concludes to a peppy reverberation. This perky ricochet adds distinction and acts as the recall value. It might sound weird but the use of clarinet here reminds of the one used in the Khalid Mohammed’s Arabic song Didi though it’s no way derived from that number.
‘Rock Mahi’ is as clichéd lyrics can get and as conventional a dance number can sound. Raghav gets back to sounding himself and his voice falls in the Sonu Nigam category. ‘Gup Chup’ is designed as a mellow seductive number where Mahalaxmi Iyer sounds sweet in the regular version while Shilpa Rao goes raunchy in the remix. Aditya Dhar’s lyrics are no great shakes with his choice of words being utmost unadventurous.
‘Lakshmi Narayan’ is the theme track, which at best, can be tagged as a compilation of some funny dialogues from the film. It works better off as a teaser trailer on television rather than a track on the audio CD. That sums up the album.
One Two Three is an average masala album that at best will survive as long as the film lasts. It lacks the potential to reach the top three positions on musical countdowns.