Adieu Jatin Lalit

Time to bid goodbye to my fav music director Jatin Lalit. I have grown up listening to their songs and was particularly dejected on not getting to hear their songs too often recently (last one coming way back in 2004: Hum Tum)

This duo have continuously churned out amazing romantic numbers over a span of 15 yrs….they are the best when it comes to lovey-dovey romantic soundtracks…
lets go down the memory lane and recollect their hit albums/songs

Yaara Dildara(1991): First film by this duo. Had the ever popular ‘Bin tere sanam’ (oft repeated in remixes these days) number sung by Udit-Kavita. Another notable song was ‘Tum hi hamari ho manzil’…in brief a good start for the duo

Jo Jeeta wohi Sikandar(1992): First big banner movie (Mansoor was fresh from his QSQT success) which catapulted them to the top slots….had excellent songs ‘Pehla Nasha’, ‘Roothkar humse’, ‘Jawahon ho yaaro’, ‘Shehar ki pariyon’

Raju Ban gaya gentleman(1992): Amongst the first movies of Shahrukh..had good numbers in the likes of ‘Loveriya’, ‘Dil hai mera deewana’, title song, ‘Seene mein dil’…this movie started the shahrukh-jatin lalit 100% hit track record

Khiladi(1992): this movie had decent songs ranging from ‘kya khabar thi jaana’ to ‘hoke mann aaj magan’ and one of my favourite numbers ‘waada raha sanam’

Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa(1994): among my fav soundtracks…had really cool numbers ‘deewana dil deewana’. ‘aana mere pyar ko’, ‘kyun na hum milke’, ‘wo to hai albela’, ‘ae kaash ke hum’

DDLJ(1995): who can forget this evergreen soundtrack…..had excellent numbers in ‘tujhe dekha’ ,’ho gaya hai tujhko’, ‘mehendi lagake rakhna’, ‘ruk jaa o dil’….this marked their entry into the yashraj camp…..every music composer dreams to give music under yashraj banner and jatin-lalit were the most lucky guys as they were the most preferred composers

Khamoshi(1996): my fav album till date….none of the other movies have been able to match this soundtrack atleast IMO….outstanding numbers like ‘Baahon ke darmiyan’ ,’ aankhon mein kya’, ’sagar kinaare’, ‘yeh dil sun raha hai’, ‘aaj main upar’, ‘mausam ki sargam’

Yes Boss(1997): giving music under the Aziz Mirza banner continues for this duo (after Raju Ban…)….has the ever romantic numbers like ‘Ek din aap yu’ and ‘Main koi aisa geet’…other numbers like ‘Chaand taarein’, ‘suniye to’ and ‘jaata hai tu’ were also hummable

Pyar kiya to darna kya(1998): This movie has music by Jatin-Lalit, Himesh Reshammiya (title song) and Sajid-Wajid (Teri Jawani)…they gave the hit number ‘O o jaane jaana’ though it was a Kamal Khan number…moreover ‘Deewana main chala’ was also a decent number

Jab pyar kisise hota hai(1998): great album….had good songs like ‘o jaana’, ‘madhosh dil’, ‘ek dil tha’, ‘pehli pehli baar’ and ‘chal pyar karegi’ from this soundtrack

Pyar to hona hi tha(1998): still like to hum ‘jab kisiki taraf’, ‘ajnabee mujhko’, ‘aashiq hoon main’ ,’aaj hai sagai’

Ghulam(1998): who can forget runaway hit ‘aati kya khandala’ from this movie…had some decent numbers in ‘aankhon se tune’, ’jaadu hai tera hi’, ’ab naam mohabbat ke’

Kuch kuch hota hai(1998): JL rounded off the year in style (had 5 hit albums in 1998)…songs like title song, ‘koi mil gaya’, ‘ladki badi anjani’ and ‘yeh ladka hai deewana’ are still hummable

Sarfarosh(1999): okayish album…however ‘zindagi maut na ban jaaye’ and ‘hoshwalon ko khabar kya’ is among my fav songs… ‘is deewane ladke ko’ was also a fun track

Sangharsh(1999): this album went unnoticed but had decent numbers like ‘pehli pehli baar baliye’, ‘naraaz savera’ and ‘mujhe raat din bus’

Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani(2000): first shahrukh production and he chose jatin-lalit over other composers…had hit music : title song, ‘I m the best’, ‘banke tera jogi’, ‘aur kya’

Mohabbatein(2000): partnership with Yashraj continues in this film also….has excellent songs like ‘Humko hamise’, ‘chalte chalte’ , ‘pairon mein bandhan’, ‘aankhein khuli’

K3G(2001): this movie has music by aadesh srivastava and sandesh shandilya also and sandesh walked away with most of the accolades because of Suraj hua madhdham…inspite of this Jatin Lalit gave decent numbers like title song and ‘Yeh ladka hai allah’ which was later repeated in Fanaa (Des rangila)

Chalte chalte(2003): all the songs in this movie were good especially ‘tauba tumhare’ ,’suno na’, title song, ‘gumshuda’ and ‘prem nagariya’

Hum Tum (2004): among the best albums of the year…had sweet numbers like ‘Ladki kyun’, ‘saanson mein saanson’, ‘yaara yaara’

Fanaa(2006): Jatin Lalit sum up their career in style with outstanding numbers like ‘Chand Sifarish’, ‘Tere haath mein’, ‘Chanda chamke’, ‘Dekho na’

Other than this there were other good songs composed by this duo
Fareb: Yeh teri aankhein jhuki jhuki
Haasil: Aankhein bhi hoti hai
Kehta hai dil baar baar: title song, Aasman se chaand laao
Bada Din: Meri aankhon mein tum ho
Vaastav: Meri duniya hai
Yeh hai Mumbai meri jaan: mera chaand mujhe
Rok sako to rok lo: Jaane kise pukaare dil mera
Aankhen: Kuch kasmein hai jawaan
Raju Chacha: Tune mujhe pehchana nahi
Dhai Aksar prem ke: Do lafzon mein likhdi
Khoobsurat: bahut khoobsurat ho
Silsila hai pyar ka: yeh dil deewana hai
Dil kya kare- title song

By reading at the blog you will know that inspite of this track record they were not able to become as famous as A R Rahman, Anu Malik…moreover they have not won a single filmfare till date though they have been nominated several times…I wld still say that Jatin Lalit are one of the most successful music composers of India

Hats off to Jatin lalit!!!!!!!!

Music Review : Fanaa

Expectations are sky high from this Yash Chopra production...many reasons for this
1) Aamir and Kajol together for the first time (u can disregard Ishq as they werent paired opposite each other)
2) Kunal Kohli is back after Hum Tum
3) Also reunion of the hit pair of Jatin-Lalit and Prasoon Joshi
4) Last music soundtrack from Jatin-Lalit before their split
5) Yash Chopra tries the terrorist theme for the first time

Now going to the main topic...music....
First distinct thing is that Yashraj fav Lata and Udit do not feature in the soundtrack

The album opens with Chand Sifarish sung brilliantly by Shaan and ably supported by Kailash Kher...this song is definitely a chart buster..watch for the Santoor and whistle interlude in the song...though the whistle is inspired from Yaaran yaaran song of Hum Tum I would still give the song 9/10 because of freshness and excellent musical arrangement...

Next comes Tere Haath mein sung by Sonu and Sunidhi..a typical yashraj mushy mushy number...both of them sing well..moreover Aamir and Kajol make their presence felt with their dialogue narration...Kajol narrates the now famous line
"Tere Dil Mein Meri Sanson Ko Panaah Mil Jaaye...Tere Ishq Mein Meri Jaan Fanaa Ho Jaaye"
Actually Aamir has more lines than Kajol in this number...

This is followed by Chamda chamke which is I guess the first tongue twisting song in Bollywood...everyone has sung brilliantly though the music is directly lifted from Yaaran Yaaran (again) from Hum Tum...dunno why Jatin Lalit has to lift tunes from one song and use it in 2 songs of this soundtrack ...moreover the copied tune also was his own creation (quite different from Anu Malik :)) ...Aamir and Kajol again feature in this fun number....this number is going to be highly popular among kids.....

Next comes Dekho Na which is a good romantic number though not on par with Tere Haath Mein..this is again sung by Sonu and Sunidhi

Des Rangila follows this number and reminds me of Aisa des hai mera froim Veer Zaara...the tune is again lifted from Yeh Ladka Hai Allah from K3G...inspite of lifting tunes all these soings sound fresh....

Fanaah for you rounds of the music album...this is the remix version of Chand Sifarish by DJ Aqeel.....great party soundtrack which will be heard regularly for sometime in dicsotheques and pubs....

Overall a neat album which will surely find favours among the public....

Coming Soon

Music review of Fanaa and Gangster.........................
Watch out this space....

My verdict: 2 great albums (each having a different sound)...more in my reviews later

Movie review: Shaadi se Pehle

got a chance to watch this film today.....the movie was a typical David Dhawan film (though directed by Satish Kaushik)...worth watching it once.....

movie has some funny one-liners by Sanjay Chhel...
"apun ka naam anna...chaubees ghante chaukanna"

"band karo yeh hum aapke hai kaun....lo ab aa gaya hai Don"

Akshaye and Ayesha didn't impress....Sunil Shetty and Rajpal's track was funny...Mallika as usual was hot....Anupam was totally wasted... Boman was hilarious in a miniscule role

One or two songs were ok but not on par with Himesh's standards....

May be word-of-mouth publicity might catapult this movie to do average to above average business....