Rahman’s lessons on existentialism in the jazzy title song is only marginally interesting, while Runa Rizvi and Sukhwinder’s two version Jaane tu mera is beautiful – with excellent variations and heart-rending lyrics. The teasy Nazrein milana and the longing Kahin to hogi are neat musical attempts – the former, young and fresh and the latter, a ballad’ish, soft melody. The soundtrack however belongs to Rashid Ali’s Kabhi kabhi and the groovy, rockin’ Pappu cant dance! Abbas Tyrewala’s directorial debut has Rahman giving him youthful and trendy numbers, even though the overall package is entertainingly diverse from a standard Rahman product!
Keywords: Imraan Khan, Genelia D’souza
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1 | Milliblog music review: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na : NAACHGAANA
May 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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2 | prakash
May 20th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
2 ARR albums back-to-back…cant ask for more
3 | Dhruv
May 20th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Pappu can’t dance rocks! It’s certainly gonna be a rage in the coming days..
4 | Srini_
May 20th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Karthik, thanks for the great and superfast review of JTYJN !
Pappu can’t dance (also the remix version) really rocks ! And Khabi khabi is very cute.. the album is absolutely great ! Wonder why ARR doesn’t compose more music like this, instead of off-beat ones he has been for a long time in hindi.
5 | tejas
May 21st, 2008 at 8:00 am
Rapchik guitar work in Nazrein Milana. Jaane Tu mera is haunting, Evanescenceque song but the sound of female version is terribly similar to something I have heard so many times!!!
6 | tejas
May 21st, 2008 at 8:10 am
And the title song is a good take on ‘Let’s call the whole thing off’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let‘s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3fjQa5Hls
The most recent version of this song was by Louis Armstrong and Ela Fitzgerald in When Harry Met Sally.
7 | Das Prakash
May 21st, 2008 at 8:45 pm
The soundtrack rocks big time! Its interesting to find that the time period for most of the songs is in 3 – 4 mins range. That is quite unusual esp. in a rahman’s track as lotta his songs goes on for over 5 – 6 mins. Perhaps it was intended to be short and sweet!
8 | idongivadamn
May 21st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Kabhi Kabhi sounds similar to Appudo Ippudo from Bommarillu the telugu flick, from which JNTYJN is being remade..
‘even though the overall package is entertainingly diverse from a standard Rahman product!’
^^
Affirmative!!
9 | vimmuuu
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:16 am
@ idongivadamn : JTYJN is NOT a remake of Bomarillu. The remake is coming for sure, but with Harman and Genelia in the lead; produced by Boney Kapoor.
10 | Srini_
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 am
idongivadamn,
actually, the khabi khabi first few words are similar to the interlude before the second para of Mustafa mustafa (kadhal desam). Apparently, the bommarillu song is also similar to that
11 | vimmuuu
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 am
oh god…i came back here to say exactly what srini just said.
and I also felt that the line “Jaana Dil Jaana” in Jaane Tu Meri Kya Hai very similar to the line “Mulayam Mulayam Si Neeli Neeli Raat Hai” in Ahista Ahista from Swades.
12 | sam
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Kabhi Kabhi sounds like an extension of Kadhaaa Sadugudu / Aye Udi Udi (esp.haste haste bit) but catchy nevertheless..
ARR’s jazz experiment should have stopped with SOK.. The title song would have been much better without the jazz elements
Kahin to hogi seems to be a mix of several English songs (boy bands stuff)
However, much better fare than Ada..
13 | kaitav_sapre
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Good songs by him…….
14 | yaju
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Lovely soundtrack! This is the kind of soundtrack that I had been waiting from Rehman for years. It kind of reminds me of his work in movies like Boys, which makes the soundtrack special.
Kabhi Kabhi and Pappu Got Dance got on my nerve in the first hearing itself. First Jodha Akbar and now JTYJN, ARR seems to have realised that nowadays people want songs that should get on with the first hearing itself, not of the kind that you have to hear again and again so that they will “grow” on you.
15 | jaydeep
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I haven’t heard too many of his recent Tamil soundtracks, but never missed any of his hindi soundtracks. So after listening to his last few hindi soundtracks, I feel he is in fun mode after a long time. Very diverse album with some real peppy bollywoodish tracks. I enjoyed this one, thoroughly.
16 | r_vijaynarain
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
“Rahman’s lessons on existentialism in the jazzy title song is only marginally interesting”
“ARR’s jazz experiment should have stopped with SOK.. The title song would have been much better without the jazz elements”
Whoa whats with the anti-jazz campaign!!
Personally i’d rate Tu Bole the best track in the album! Wonderful tribute to Louis Armstrong!!
17 | narasimman
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:56 pm
kahin to hogi ho is so MICHAEL LEARNS TO ROCKISH …..If it was sung in english then it could easily pass of an a MLTR Song.
18 | mubeen_k
June 8th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
the song Jaane Tu Mera Kya Hai (Aditi),music is copied from the song peaches and cream
19 | tejas
June 9th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Hmm..very good similarity!!
20 | Karthik
June 9th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Mubeen: Which Peaches & Cream are you referring to from this list?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches_and_Cream_%28disambiguation%29
21 | tejas
June 9th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
The one by 112..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAZIT2hLyAU
22 | Karthik
June 9th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Hmm…I don’t see any direct similarity at all, tune-wise!
23 | tejas
June 9th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Yeah..but I think both he and I meant the similarity in the intro music only. To be honest, I was hooked up to the song from that music only, before the ‘doom metallic’ vocals took over!
24 | mubeen_k
June 9th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
yes the intro of Jaane Tu Mera Kya Hai is copied from that song …i even posted that a song from mere baap pehle appp is copied from the song ‘miss india’ from dhamaal
25 | nitin
June 10th, 2008 at 8:33 am
are you guys tone/tune-deaf or what?
there is nothing even remotely similar to the said number.
26 | gokulpai
June 10th, 2008 at 8:57 am
The only listen able track 4 me is “kabhi kabhi aditi”… that too i’m not happy wid the singing.. but the music makes me stick 2 d song..Rest of d songs r average /below average..”pappu cant dance” has josh but its not hummable..but the album is still better than the likes of “de taali” n “Thoda pyaar thoda magic”..
27 | s_sylu
June 11th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na tops the charts..
28 | gowrishanker
June 11th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Every song is awesome with variations .. Especially Aditi and Kahin to..
29 | Raju
July 17th, 2008 at 4:14 am
@gokulapi
you are always critizing Rahman’s work…i can see from all of ur comments in rahman’s albums..i think u r anti-rahmanic !!!
30 | gokulpai
July 31st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Well.. I’m not Anti-Rahmanic… I speak from my heart.. I criticize the worst compositions from any music composer… n also praise the best. I found his compositions to be very ordinary n i said so taking into account his past works n reasons for which he’s praised.
31 | gokulpai
July 31st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
[2.5/5 ]
32 | knownsense
November 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
a song kahin to hogi woh. ie.,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGB8N1MdsBQ
is similar to ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpNdetCO9Ds
e & oe
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