JAB TAK HAI JAAN MUSIC REVIEW

CHEERS TO ALL OF YOU!!!

So the biggest and most anticipated album "JAB TAK HAI JAAN" is out...
The last movie to be directed by great Yash Chopra, it features music composed by A.R.Rahman and lyrics painted by Gulzar , the Academy award winning duo.
The album features 9 tracks.

Opening the album is CHALLA by Rabbi Shergill , a total punjabi sufi song, beautifully sung by Rabbi. It also sounds more like a Rabbi song than a AR Rahman song. The lyrics are beautiful...as expected by Gulzar.

Next is the star of the album HEER  sung soulfully by Harshdeep Kaur and to be picturised on Katrina. The song is definately the best of the album with its poetry and serenading tune, with the vocals invoking the emotions of listeners.

Next is Ishq Shava, A club song by Raghav mathur and Shilpa Rao, club number with dance beats and some imaginative lyrics by Gulzar saab.

Also an instrumental dance piece ISHQ DANCE features in the album, i dnt like instrumentals a lot, so no impression on me.

The title song sung by Javed Ali and Shaktishree Gopalan, this song definately changes the tempos and tunes 2-3 times in matter of 4 mins. Javed Ali does a wonderful job laying a wonderful foundation for Shaktishree to take it to the peak with her power vocals.


Saans and Saans (reprise) - Shreya Ghoshal and Mohit Chauhan team up for the mandatory love song to be picturised in Swiss alps fr the Yash Chopra movie.
the lyrics are wonderful with the tune sounding more like a Madan Mohan composition than an A.R.Rahman one.
Mohit Bari Chauhan is completely out of place here... a better choice would have been Shaan or Udit Narayan.
Shreya also performs the reprise version, the sad version with more pathos vocals. Sounding like more Madan Mohan song.

Last is the Poem Recitation by Shahrukh Khan set to tune of A.R.Rahman and written by Aditya Chopra. Adi does a good work int he poem and the tune is already well loved by listeners.

So overall it is a nice album, which will grow on you as u listen it for 3-4 times. My pick would be Heer, Saans and Challa.... 

4.3/5 stars from me.

AAJ KA GANESHOTSAV

Ganeshotsav nowdays has become more of a showoff events between various pandals and political parties... rather then what Tilak had envisioned. It has become a pure commercial purpose event. After visarjan, each pandal will brag about the amount of offerings...people can offer 25kg gold to a plaster of paris idol, but they will not donate 25 k rs. to a hospital or orphanage..

इन सब लोगों पे कर लगना चाहिए और आयकर विभाग वालों को ऐसे पंडलों पर छापा डालना चाहिए... लोग इतनी आस्था ग़रीबो की मदद या उनके भले में क्यों नही लगते....

उसपर भक्त जो ६-७ घंटे लाइन में खड़े रहकर दर्शन के लिए व्याकुल रहते हैं, उनके भेद बकरियों की तरह से दर्शन कराए जाते हैं...

जो राज ठाकरे और उद्धव ठाकरे परप्रांतियो को लेकर इतना बवाल मचाते फिरते हैं, उनके ही कार्यकर्ता उन प्रांत के गाने बजाते है.
और गाने भी आइटम सॉंग जो गणेशजी की भक्ति में बजाते हैं, हलकट जवानी , मुन्नी बदनाम , अपदी पोदे , भोजपुरी गाने यह सब फुल आवाज़ में बजाए जाते है , दिन रात गणेशोत्सव के नाम पे बिना किसी की परवाह किए...
जानवरों की तो छोड़ो, इंसानो की भी नही सोचते....

Also the noise pollution, even Ganpati would put cotton in his ears listening to hindi,tamil and bhojpuri item numbers on full vol 24 x 7 to which no proud marathi political party or person objects... none...

इतने सब शोर शराबे में भक्ति कहाँ से आएगी?

देख तेरे संसार की हालत क्या हो गयी भगवान.... कितना बदल गया इंसान... :)
गणपति बप्पा मोरया...

Music Review : COCKTAIL 2012

Saif Ali Khan presents COCKTAIL, his home production in association with Eros intl and his banner Illuminati Films. It stars Saif Ali Khan along with Deepika Padukone and the model Diana Penty.
MUSIC : PRITAM      LYRICS : IRSHAD KAMIL

The duo of Jab We Met and Love Aaj Kal come together once again to produce the best album of the year so far. Best album that leaves Shanghai by Vishal Shekhar behind just because it is a complete album.

In short Cocktail music rocks.... Pritam is in top form in this album...


Lets start with the wonderful friendship song Daaru Desi
Daaru Desi with its unique tempo and execution is wonderful... Benny Dayal and Shalmali are in wonderful nick for the song. The song`s unique soothing tune works wonders. Definitely on my repeat list, and yes the starting guitar intro is nice..

Next is song from across the border, Jugni.
Jugni is an original composition from Arif Lohar who performed it in the Coke Studio Pakistan episode. Pritam has rearranged the song and yet has managed to capture the original`s soul in his version.

Next comes Luttna which in both versions pumps you up...the singers  and the music arrangement is wonderful...


Tumhi ho bandhu is Kavita seth all the way with neeraj shridhar chippin in wid the punch verse....

My favourite and the best song of the album is Yaariyaan...an ode to friendship and it is wonderful in both versions... Mohan Kannan of 'AGNEE' rocks the original version...while Sunidhi Chauhan is wonderful in the reprise and unplugged version...

nice work from Pritam... MUST LISTEN

Some Random Thoughts....

Hi again.....
                   hope you people have been fine. I am back to share some random thoughts with you all, I don`t have much topics to right on and that is why I am going to write things that I have on top of my mind.

1. IPL
     The biggest and hottest topic right now on the circuit. IPL has been amidst controversies since its inception.
Money involved in the league, Taking the league to South Africa instead of postponing it due to elections in India, franchisees fighting due to one sided rule changing.

The latest being the molestation case filed against the RCB player Luke Pomersbach. Well if you have parties with booze and girls in them, what do you expect.

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2.Babasaheb Ambedkar
The second hottest topic, the 1949 cartoon of Ambedkar and Nehru during the forming of our country`s constitution.
Issue is that some politicians are opposing the said cartoon saying that this cartoon can have negative effects about Ambedkar and Dalit community altogether in today`s students minds.

A counter view on the cartoon row

3.SATYAMEV JAYATE


Aamir Khan`s new effort and entry onto the TV.  A show whose premiere episode I saw, and found it to be quite nice.
But the connection of the host to the topic seems to be non existent.I saw that Aamir trying to keep the focus on the matter at hand instead of the spotlight on him, which is wonderful and absolutely necessary.
But if he could also put his views instead of summarizing what was talked by the panel and people, involving himself would have been a better way.
Don`t let it be just another show which people see just because Aamir Khan`s name is attached to it.

Hats off to the people who are preparing the content and researching on it. Their work need to be appreciated more.

The songs in the end give a nice emotional touch to the show, Facebook statuses show girls crying over the songs on the show.

Btw please suggest me more topics or subjects...

till next time... I leave you with a wonderful song 'MUKHTASAR' from upcoming  'TERI MERI KAHAANI'.

India cricket,Rushdie controversy...

India`s drubbing at the hands of Australia:
Well India is on its way to a successive whitewash in 6 months...
First England made India surrender its no.1 tag in test matches while handing them a 4-0 drubbing in test matches and then 4-0 beating in Odis...

Now Australia is making India surrender its remaining pride with first 3 test ending in 4 days and this last one just made it to the final day.

It makes one thing for sure, atleast 3 of the 4 greats of Indian batting have played in their last tests. Dravid who did so well in England, had a miserable tour in Australia with making just 104 runs in 8 innings and getting out bowled 6 times out of 8 innings.Laxman also failed in all the 8 tests against England and Australia, with not a single century to boast of.

Whereas Sachin Tendulkar missed a golden opportunity to make his 100th 100 against WI in one days and coming to Australia with a free mind. But he chose to skip the ODIs and now his inability to make that hundred. While the Indian media has not done any good with pressuring him to get his hundred.

M.S.Dhoni has kinda lost his interest in test matches, which is seen in his batting and even in his captaincy. Lets see whether he continues to play in tests or not.

As future plans, BCCI should bring in Gambhir as test captain and if Dhoni decides to retire from tests, bring in Dinesh Kartik for him. Bring in Raina,Rohit, Virat and Pujara,Tiwary as youngsters in place of the famed trio.


Now for the Rushdie Row :
It has now become a fad to criticize people on basis of something they had done in the past. Salman Rushdie is paying for his controversial book "The satanic verses".
He has been a permanent visitor to India,but this time the muslim sect has managed to oppose his coming to India for the Jaipur Lit.fest.