If it is an action thriller like Dhoom 2, you are sure that what you would get would be on the lines of Dhoom, which means something that is fast paced, racy and high on rhythm.

If it is a mature love story like Fanaa, then it has to be highly romantic, something which could be on the lines of a Veer Zaara.

If it is Kabul Express, then of course it has to be something which is out of the box and breaks the norms.

And last but not the least; if it is Ta Ra Rum Pum, it has to follow a young and peppy theme of music, as heard in its predecessors belonging to a similar genre - Hum Tum and Salaam Namaste.

This is the reason why there are set expectations when you lay your hands on the album of Ta Ra Rum Pum. And this is the reason why there is a certain predictability that one looks for (no harm in that, after all this is the way the brand has made a place at the top for itself) in the music here by Vishal Shekhar with lyrics by Javed Akhtar.

So you pretty much anticipate that there would be one or two we-are-one-family kind of songs since the film has Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee playing a married couple with two kids, a sad song, a 'bhangra' number (it would be criminal to leave one out in a Yash Raj Film) and at least one sugar-coated melody-rich love song.

Does one get all of this? Of course yes. The fact is that you get what you expected, though one would have been even happier if there was a surprise or two round the corner as well! >>more