Music Review: Roadside Romeo

Some may say that movie soundtracks need not be outstanding all the time. They believe, the singers come out with their personal music albums for exactly that reason. And that's because, songs from a film need to belong to the film. It needs to be complementary to the story and the feeling that is unique to that film and that film only. The soundtrack of Yash Raj's first animation flick directed by Jugal Hansraj and co-produced by Walt Disney is exactly that.

Roadside Romeo is an animation film about the love story of two cool dogs. And when you listen to the soundtrack, you can almost see the cute creatures dancing to them. Take the doggy characters out, and the songs will fall flat.
By saying that, we don't mean that the songs are bad. They are cute, peppy and a lot of fun. But they are not unique on their own. They are nothing different from the tunes that we keep hearing these days. Every song sounds like something that we might have already heard. But listen to it carefully and think of the dogs who will be mouthing them, and all of a sudden the songs become more interesting.
Keeping in mind the main target audience of the film, the lyrics by Jaideep Sahni have been kept sweet and simple with a lot of English words sprinkled generously throughout. The tunes by Salim-Suleiman are good too. It's youthful with a lot of beats and technical sound effects. At times, the songs will remind you of Vishal-Shekhar's Salaam Namaste songs.
For instance, the title track, Main Hoon Romeo sung by Kunal Ganjawala is peppy, spunky and suits a dog with oodles of attitude.