One Two Three may have a lot to offer as a film in terms of comic content, but musically speaking, it is rather arid. The music doesn't touch any great heights even though it does seem to be quite apt for the film. Raghav Sachar does a good job of keeping to his brief as his music captures the light-hearted mood of the film and seems to be quite consistent with the theme or content of the film. But by itself, the music of One Two Three, is quite mediocre. It has just about a couple of hummable numbers and lots of nonsensical ones. It all makes for a lot of fun, but not good music.
The title track, 'One Two Three', appears four times in the album, with a few variations each time. The first is the hip-hop version sung by Kunal Ganjawala, Sachar and Earl Ed (Rap), the second, an amalgamation, the third a club mix, and the last is in a ballad style. The first, the hip-hop, version is quite catchy. In fact, it kind of grows on one with repeated hearing. Ganjawala is a very consummate singer and he brings that mastery to this rendition as well. This singer carries his seal of excellence into every song that he sings, no matter what genre, what quality. He always sounds good. Sachar and Earl Ed (Rap) give him good company in the number.
The version, titled 'Amalgamation,' is just as its title suggests, an amalgamation of different styles and genres coming together to create a pot pourri of sorts with One Two Three. Ganjawala, Kaptan Laadi, Kshitij Tarey, Kailash Kher, Sachar and Aditya Dhar (VO), all come together to give this number quite an interesting flavour. It is quite nonsensical but the nonsense bit has been done quite well. Lyrics are dotted with stuff like – 'Bebasi main Baywatch dekhta hoon.' The quwali and the bhangra also make their appearance in this number along with the Spiderman theme song. All in all, it is like we said earlier, a nonsensical ditty, whose appeal will only be enhanced when one watches it in the movie. It is very situational.
The last two versions, the club mix and the ballad, prove the adage about too much of a good thing. It seems to be stretching matters a bit. All one can say is that both versions are quite mediocre and sound a little repetitive.
Rock Mahi sung by Sunidhi Chauhan and Sachar is very pleasant number. Sachar does a good job with Sunidhi, who gives the song the required punch. Sunidhi makes another appearance in the album with a solo number, 'I Wanna Guy'. It's quite a typical Sunidhi song but somehow the singer fails to impart any kind of freshness to it. The 'Sunidhi spark' seems to be missing here. Therefore the song fails create any impact. Quite forgettable.
However, the number that walks off with the honours is 'Gup Chup' sung by Sachar and Mahalakshmi Iyer. The duo do full justice to the number with their rendition. The music too is catchy. Its remixed version, with a little more pace added to it, is even better and makes for very good hearing.
Laxmi Narayan rendered by Ninad Kamath rounds off the album. This is another one of those numbers, which is very comic in intent and will definitely do better when 'seen' than when 'heard.' Kamath does a very good job and the number is full of the comic elements and should be worth a laugh when watched.
Raghav Sachar has probably done full justice to the mood and theme of the film but he has failed to create any song of lasting value. One can safely say that none of the numbers here will endure in public memory for long. However, assuming the brief the music composer must have been given, he seems to fulfill it in providing enough nonsensical numbers. But nothing like an 'anda ka fanda' here. (another nonsensical but very enjoyable number heard in recent times). So, it's all about fun.
