I am not very familiar with the work of Jatin and Lalit Pandit, but in this movie, the music was really good. I loved the lovely poetic phrases like “Yeh saazish hai boondon ki” and “sawan ye seedha nahi khufia bada” and “Jugnu jaisi chahat dekho jale bujhe”. You appreciate the song more, listen closer and notice the musical cadances better. I do believe listening to songs without looking at the video really enhances the effect of the song.

I listened to this soft and romantic song on my computer as an mp3 song. He has written lyrics for films like Hum Tum, Rang de Basanti, Taare Zameen Par (dialogues too) and Fanaa. He branched into writing lyrics and dialogues for films to great success. Prasoon Joshi was an advertising copywriter and a novelist. Yet… We do get to listen to lovely songs and beautiful poetry. I feel Sunidhi’s voice gets a bit strident sometimes. The advanced technology that aids in voice control, digital recording and mixing software is also on their sides. True, they are not a patch on our beloved singers like Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Lata and Asha. The ones still alive are not singing much and a new crop of singers have come in. We have lost most of our matchless singers of the 50s, 60s and 70s. The songs written by Gulzar and Javed Akhtar, set to tunes by AR Rahman are beautiful and worth listening to again and again. The sufiana songs from the present times are meaningful and pleasing to the ear. But then, like a proverbial ‘keechad me kamal’ a beautiful song pops up among all this noise. There are times when we just don’t want to listen to the cacophony that our music often descends to. ‘I don’t listen to songs later than this year,’ they often say. The purists among music lovers often like to keep a cut-off for their listening habits. This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Dekho na song