Tera Mera Saath Rahen is probably the best melody based composition Mahesh Manjrekar could offer to us. The same probably goes for Anand Raaj Anand who is working with Manjrekar for a third inning with another collaboration, the much anticipated Pitaah, coming soon.
A sensitive theme requires equally sensitive music, and that works here. Sameer has definitely put in a great deal of effort in all of the title tracks, especially, “Haatho Ki Lakeeron.” Here is where the melody comes in, and the vocals too show a great deal of effort on Udit Narayan’s part. The song is quite well sung by Udit. Udit depicts a certain level of emotion that helps it to strike a chord, which should certainly help convey the deep meanings in the film. Alka Yagnik’s vocals contribute to that minimally (not so much because she does only a decent job, it’s just that you can hear just so much of one singer). It’s sad that Anand Raaj Anand had to copy the exact same tune from Jaana Maine Jaana from Indian to open up the title songs (newsflash Anand the small piece isn’t that great to be repeating it so much). Never the less, the four versions, which in addition to these are titled “Tujhse Bechad Ke”, and “Tera Mera Saath Rahen-Intro” and of course “Tera Mera Saath Rahen”, allow the song to grow on you and it does. Sameer who does a good job here and Anand have come up with good tracks for a relatively long title. The best songs aside from those are the Udit-Alka duets (which one you say, after all the soundtrack has so many…). Tadapati Hai, Tarasati Hai is the best if not better than the title tracks. Alka’s vocals sound the best here than they do all over the soundtrack and Udit does a good job as well. The music too strays from what we’ve heard in a while (nothing extremely spectacular, but nice). Pravin Bhardwaj has penned a sweet running around the trees song here (or perhaps running around the beach as in this movie). Pehli Nazar is along the same lines and with the same duo as well. Dil Wahi Bekarar Hota Hai goes back to the normal lyrics that Sameer has constantly given us, but this time they are contributed by Pravin Bhardwaj this time again, but remains a decent listen as well. The last song before the unmentionables is Main Soccho a slow ballad of types that changes the voice of the male with Hariharan who does an excellent job in his league of singing. Alka is just about the same. Gautam Joglekar does an apt job with the lyrics. The losers in this soundtrack are Haq Jate De, a must include bar/masala number which is like an ode to “Jawani Se Ab Jung” from Vaastav. Not at all worth your time but Sukhwinder Singh and Hema Sardesai do a decent job singing the lackluster song. Guest composers Rahul Ranade and Anand Ingle compose the must include children entertainment song in Jumbo Jet. I’ve yet to see a composer compose a chart-busting child song. Jatin Lalit are known to include them in their child-oriented films i.e. Dil Kya Kare and Raju Chacha and they are probably the ones that come closest to making enjoyable ones. Probably better on-screen, and definitely a skip on your CD player. Finally, if “Juhi Ne Dil Manga” from Ehsaas wasn’t enough of a parody “Dum Dum Diga Diga” tributes to yesteryear golden tunes, but like the former tune amounts to more of a mockery. Each of the singers contributes in making this one two thumbs down! Conclusively Anand Raaj Anand does a decent job here in moving up in the composer world. The result is nothing fabulous, but extremely melodious. The one problem is that there is a constant melody that doesn’t change pace until you move on to the horrible situational numbers. That makes Indian a better fare in that it had a little more variety in each of the six songs. Most of the bad numbers here however are attributed to the guest composers which kinds of make the album a decent fare for Anand. Is he moving up? I think so. Can he compose for a Chopra film? I think not! With the flaws the soundtrack is still worth a CD. Yet it probably won’t be the one that will pick up sales or the one that you will run to the store to get, after all you pick up the CD and you don’t see Anu Malik or A.R. Rahman why would you buy it right away? |
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With a fluid and compact theme flowing throughout the soundtrack Anand Raaj Anand could have perhaps done no wrong, and like I have said before, his compositions show little variation from the top notch composers Jatin Lalit, Anu Malik yet lacking popularity, which hopefully should change, is a factor which has constantly been working against him. If