*An A R Rehman masterpiece* *Aadil Bhoja* Yuvvraaj *Artist: * <http://www.planetradiocity.com/musicopedia/music_newupdatearticle.php?conid=78> *Music Director:* A R Rahman *Genre: *Bollywood<http://www.planetradiocity.com/musicopedia/music_articles.php?mid=16> [image: lyrics] Printer-Friendly Version<http://www.planetradiocity.com/musicreporter/printreview.php?printid=152> [image: Forward] <javascript: ;> Review:
Subhash Ghai has two similar qualities that the late Raj Kapoor had: the showmanship, and a good ear for music. Though Raj Kapoor over four decades gave the Hindi Film industry some of the most memorable music, Subhash Ghai has at least consistently worked towards churning out popular music. For his latest Yuvvraaj he has roped in two of the most trusted stalwarts in the music department, composer A.R.Rahman and Lyricist Gulzar. Looking at the opulent settings of the movie, almost the entire album has a feel of grandeur with Western Classical touch of Symphonic orchestra. The tunes, though some are purely Indian is nicely set to western instrumentations. However Gulzar remaining above par than most of the current lyricists has not given his best. 'Tu meri dost hain' sung by Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghosal and Rahman himself seems to be the main song of the movie. Laced with Western Classical influence the song has a very identifiable melody at the core and it keeps repeating in the other songs as well. In 'Tu Muskura' by Alka Yagnik and Javed Ali the main tune becomes the part of the interlude music. Both the songs are of similar genre but have an identity of its own. Javed Ali excels in singing the Sargam at the end of 'Tu Muskura'. After a long time Sonu Niigaam has sung majority of the songs in an album. He has three songs to his credit each better than the other. In many of his recent albums it seems Sonu is completely detached from the song and just sings mechanically. Not here. 'Shano Shano' starts with Srinivas, Timmy, Sunaina, Vivienne Pocha and Tina with some Hindi and English rapping to some very heavy disco beats. The feel of the song too seems to be very 70's but it is deliberate. Sonu comes in almost at the end and takes the song to a different level. Similarly 'Dil ka rishta' too has Roop Kumar Rathod, Clinton, Suzanne, Vivienne, Naresh, Benny and Rahman himself singing this very heavy orchestrated song. Again Sonu excels as a vocalist in this song where he sings most of the parts. The third Sonu song is 'Mastam Mastam', the only song where Gulzar uses new words and phrases from his Urdu vocabulary. Supported by Alka Yagnik, Naresh and Benny this is a melodic soft song seems specially made for Sonu. Out of the two male solo songs in the album 'Zindagi' goes to Srinivas. With the mukhda like "Zindagi zindagi kya kami reh gayi, Aankh ki kor me kyun nami reh gayi", this is right up Gulzar's alley and he doesn't disappoint. Normally this type of song would have gone to Hariharan but Srinivas is equal to the task. The other solo 'Manmohini' is sung by Vijay Prakash. This is an out and out Classical singing style with Alaps and Sargams but the beats and music is very modern. Only someone like Rahman can pull such a song with credibility. Like all Rahman albums the songs are bound to grow on you as listen to it more often. This is an album with some great melody set to a completely different type of Instrumentalism. This is the nearest Indian version to any Western Classical Symphony. -- -A http://viewsnmuse.blogspot.com
