Ishaqzaade (Starring - Arjun Kapoor, Pariniti Chopra) has already released in cinemas but I haven't been able to watch it yet. But I stumbled on the music album of the original sound track for the film. Below are my thoughts on the album. Please note that I am not a music expert but I love listening music especially Hindi film music. What you will read below is more a compilation of my emotions and the thoughts that went through my head while listening the songs.
Pareshaan by Shalmali Kholgade is a dreamy love ballet. She has a soft melodious voice that adds magic to this number. Be prepared to be transported to the world of stars, flowers, petals, waterfalls and love.
Jhalla Walla is the surprise package of this album. This is a rustic naughty track that will take you to the rural northern plains. The simplicity of the lyrics will remind you of nautanki ; the song starts with something like - "aashiqon main jis ka title titanic, Muah kinara dikha kar ke dooba de gaya". The reason it is a surprise is its singer. Normally this type of number would have been usually sung by Rekha Bhardwaj or maybe Sunidhi Chauhan but surprisingly Shreya Ghoshal lends her vocals and boy what an amazing job she has done!
Heard this delightful song from Aamir Khan’s next film Peepli Live and have been humming it over and over again since the time I heard it. Although I am not an expert on music and can hardly tell one genre from the other but I definitely know when a song sounds good .
Of late, Bollywood music is opening up to new horizons and has been stretching it’s boundaries; music directors and film makers have started experimenting a lot nowadays which is a very welcome change. The music in some of the recent films is both unconventional and refreshing. Films like Oye Lucky Lucky Oye’, ‘Dev D’, ‘Gulaal’ and now ‘Peepli Live’ belong to their own different genre of music determined more by the story, the location and the film instead of the conventional commercial wisdom.
What I like even more is the fact that when situation demands filmmakers are ready to explore folk music and not like the old days when they would just copy a folk tune and completely reinvent the song with filmy lyrics. I am talking about the songs where the folk essence still remains and stays alive – the simple lyrics, ground level issues, problems, happiness, and feelings in the simplest language – a language that is not confined to books or literary circles but a language which thrives in the hearts and the conversations of the common people; a language which is not so pure in literary terms but so pure in its essence and so flavorful. I think purity is over-rated, there is so much emphasis placed on it that it isolates and thus disconnects. Anyways I will leave that topic for some other time.
And right now just stick to Bollywood films and the use of folk music. Who has not liked or hummed ‘Sasural Genda Phool’ from Delhi 6. Rahman, the genius that he is, didn’t kill the essence of the song yet added modern beats to be liked by one and all. Another delightful example would be the music of the film ‘Oye Lucky Lucky Oye’. The song ‘Tu raja ki raaj dulari’ is actually a folk song from Haryana. ‘Jugni’ from the same film is sung by a 70 year old folk singer and he has sung it with so much power that you can hardly make out the age of the singer.
Mohit Chauhan has been including his version of at least one Himachali song in each of his album of late like ‘Morni’, ‘Thanda paani’, ‘Maye ni meriye’. These and a lot more little gems keep coming and leave me smiling…………
