Vicky Donor (soundtrack)
Vicky Donor is the soundtrack album to the 2012 film of the same name directed by Shoojit Sircar and produced by John Abraham, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Yami Gautam, in their film debuts. The film's soundtrack consisted of eight songs jointly composed by Abhishek–Akshay, Bann Chakraborty, Rochak Kohli and Khurrana, with lyrics written by Akshay Verma, Juhi Chaturvedi, Khurrana, Kohli, Swanand Kirkire and Vijay Maurya. The album was preceded by the single "Pani Da Rang" and was released through Eros Music on 1 February 2012. The music, particularly the song "Pani Da Rang", was well received by music critics and Khurrana won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the song.
Background
The soundtrack album features eight tracks which were composed by Abhishek–Akshay, Bann Chakraborty, Rochak Kohli and Ayushmann Khurrana. All of them contributed two tracks each. Actor Khurrana also composed and sang the track "Pani Da Rang", which was released as a single on 1 February 2012. The song was written with Kohli in 2003, during their time at DAV College, Chandigarh. He used to carry the guitar to the film sets to inform Shoojit Sircar that he had composed a song and inquired him whether he wanted to hear it. Khurrana performed few lines of the song which Sircar had liked and had included in the film. He further stated that he included a few lines in the last paragraph as the character is singing the song on the terrace. The song entirely consisted of Punjabi lyrics.
Release
The film's soundtrack was launched at a private mall in Mumbai on 29 February 2012, with the cast and crew in attendance. Eros Music distributed the soundtrack and released in digital and physical platforms.
Reception
The soundtrack album received positive reviews from critics and listeners. A reviewer based at Indo-Asian News Service stated "Vicky Donor is a good effort and the coming together of various artists makes it worth a listen." Karthik Srinivasan of Milliblog called it as a "Well put-together, enjoyable soundtrack". Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama wrote "Music of Vicky Donor turns out to be better than expected. Even though there is a mandatory 'bhangra' number 'Rum Whiskey' to take care of the album from commercial standpoint, it is songs like 'Mar Jayian' and 'Pani Da Rang' which are indeed the pick of the lot."