Ok, so when I got my CD and transferred the tracks to my iPod, in the first
week I was only listening to the JA album repeatedly which kind of boosted the
number of repeats number for each of the tracks. Then when I got back to
listening to all the songs in my iPod (ie the main playlist), unknowingly I
would keep skipping tracks till I got to a JA track I wanted to listen to. I
did this till last week and happened to check my 'Most Played' tracks playlist
and right on top were Jashn-e-bahaara and In lamho (a very close second),
followed by Thamil Thamila and a few other rahman gems and in the middle of a
very long list were Kwaja and Azeem-o-shan and Manmohana was at the very bottom
off the list because for some reason I found that quite difficult to like.
Watched the movie on Saturday, and since then my listening patterns have taken
a drastic change. When I checked my 'most played tracks' playlist this morning,
Manmohana was there , right on top beating Jashn-e-bahaara and In lamho ke
damon!!! I am unable to stop listening to these three tracks especially
manmohana. I love the bit in the song that's been used as bgms in the movie!
They are so soothing. For example in the scene where Akbar walks out of the
pooja room just after the sindoor scene, completely smitten by her. It's such
a lovely piece. It's at 3.10 and 4.45 min in the track. I never thought
Manmohana would end up being on top of my JA playlist or in fact my whole song
collection!
Being a staunch maniratnam fan , I've always felt that the mani-rahman combo is
stronger than any other combo I've seen in indian cinema but I think I've
realised now that Ashu-Rahman come a very close second to it and maybe on par.
I was disappointed with the way Mani did Tere Bina. What a lovely song and what
rubbish choreography. The song picturisation didn't help the song at all. I
walked out of JA liking each and every song even more than I did before I got
to the cinema. I don't think I could say the same about Guru. Of course I
understand that Maniratnam's approach to cinema is slightly different (and
personally, better) to that of Ashutosh but Tere Bina for me was a real let
down.
I've asked my friend to send me the JA tamil CD. It should reach me in the next
3 days! I can't wait. I am really glad that Srinivas is singing
Jashn-e-baharaa. I loved what he did with Ay Hairathe in tamil and was kind of
hoping Rahman would use him for the equivalent of Jashn-e-bahaara and he has!
YAY! Would be interesting to see what Karthik has done to In Lamho ke daman.
I think my concern is more about the lyrics than anything else. I just hope the
emotions aren't compromised and that they've used a direct translation without
trying to give it a new dimension because I just loved the hindi lyrics.They
were so apt and pulled the right emotions. Has anyone who's heard the tamil
songs already have anything to say about the lyrics? have the lyricists
preserved the original emotions of the songs?
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