Another one of my "rambling, mundane sermons"........ :-)..... While I'm busy enjoying the music of VTV and a few other non Rahman soundtracks of late, the song, "Bhoola Tujhe" from Blue has resurrected itself in my playlist with great poise and salience. When "Blue" first released, I liked the song and listened to it, but for a few months until recently, took a break from it. I put this song in one of my compilation playlists recently and heard it after a long time.....it totally captured me by surprise. I was very surprised by how that song "hit" me in a different way this time around after a break, triggering a flood of positive emotions and just being tranced by it..something I did not expect.
The song has got such a beautiful intro with the strings and opera, then gradually melts into this acoustic guitar based ballad under the horns backdrop and Rashid Ali's fine singing. There's some really nice electric guitar layering in the second refrain and the song ends very gracefully with the female choir and lush strings. The whole song just flows so beautifully and gracefully with great lilt and sincerity. There is nothing too musically fancy about the song....melody is straight forward, arrangements are not too flashy, rhythm is steady, but still.....it's very heartfelt. Sound quality issues aside, which I know are present, this song to me is one of AR's most impressive ballads of late. I know there are differing opinions of this song, many having called it bland and uninteresting, but I wonder if others have felt similarly about this song like I have. If not, that's ok.....I don't mind being alone with my thoughts and feelings about this.
