Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, my music review

I saw the trailers long time back and the theme music used were just too good.

However in Pappu Can't Dance, A R Rahman's done it again(like I mentioned here) - potentially wonderful clips seem to have been stitched together to make the song.....sound awful. I was disappointed to listen to the catchy tune having no connection to the chorus of this song.

It also bears a 50-50 resemblance to Ilamai from Godfather/Varalaru - I could slightly connect the tune '......tamizh nattil ethanai kiligal veettukkul.....' to this one's chorus. But, both are his songs, he has every reason/right to use them, moreover they were in different languages.

Like most of the songs in this film, this one too is devoid of too many background tunes - just a few instruments seem to have been used - it does sound different and nice. Maybe he's aiming for a 'fresh' feel.

The remix version of 'Pappu...' didn't sound much like a dance song, but a bad dancer making such comments is futile.

Kabhi Kabhi Aditi Zindagi is very melodius... Sounds like a fresh voice to me(is Rashid Ali a newbie?). This song vaguely brought Alaipayuthe's Kadhal Sadugudu to mind, probably because the voices in both are similar. I'd say this singer's voice is a cross between Adnan Sami's(who sung the version in Saathiya) and SPB Charan's.

Both Jaane Tu Meri Kya Hai songs are sad... something terrible must be happening in the film. The male version has a wonderful, attractive theme in the beginning, building up to the 'down in the dumps' feeling in the song.

I was sure the opening tune in Nazrein Milaana sounded familiar - and I was right - it sounds like the chorus from BumBum Bole from Taare Zameen Par. The rest of the song is a nice sing-along.

Tu Bole Main Boloon has the maestro at the vocals, as good as ever. It's supposed to be in the Jazz style(I'm not that familiar to relate the two of them). This one is more like a live rendition, Rahman and the instrumentalists enjoying themselves performing(Jazz is mostly live) and making you want to nod along.

Kahin To Hogi Ho is another live-rendition-like performance. Sounds so soothing too......

A wonderful set of songs, though not the best(best=Mani Ratnam/Shankar series), which are composed in a fashion I guess focuses the movie just around the two central characters in the movie. It's just a guess, but all the songs are kind of you-sing-a-song-I-sing-a-song-in-return songs. I also guess some new voices have been used, Rahman isn't afraid to experiment, but there is a difference in the songs sung by these and the more established singers.

This post may seem critical of Rahman, but keep in mind he is way better than any of the others - so even if it may be a 4/5 according to Rahman's standards, when compared to the others, who use so much accompanied music and try to make everything a dance song, it will be a 4.9/5.