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By Joginder Tuteja, October 18, 2002 - 17:11 IST
Association of Akshay Kumar, Suneel Darshan and
Karisma Kapoor has been for a long time
now. After the surprise runaway success of Jaanwar,
they came together again with Ek Rishta
(which was a HIT again) and then Haan ..Maine Bhi
Pyaar Kiya (for which Darshan was the
producer). While elder sis is busy looking for more
challenging roles, it's now the turn of choti sis
Kareena to get into the glamorous groove with Talaash.
Probably for the first time she is seen in
saris (though borrowed from didi's wardrobe), after
the simultaneous appearance as 'hip-n-chic' in
Vashu Bhagnani's 'Jeena Sirf Merre Liye'. Also
starring in the movie is Akshay's ex-flame Pooja
Batra.
Talaash is about a brother's search for his
sister. An interesting subject brought on screen
by Producer Pahlaj Nihalani, the producer of
super-duper hit, Govinda-Chunkey Pandey starrer
Aankhen. Sanjeev Darshan, who have been very
'consistently' giving average to below average
music compose while Sameer writes.
Sanjeev Darshan, who started with aplomb with the
yummmm-melodious music of Mann and then
followed it with some mediocre scores of Khiladi 420,
Suno Sasurjee etc. come up with
'just-passing-muster' kind of score for Talaash. The
songs which are good are straight out of
Nadeem Sharavan stable - 'Yaar Badal Na Jaana', 'Baaga
Mein Jab Mor Bole', 'Dil Le Gaya
Pardesi'. If this wasn't enough then there is also
'inspiration' from Anu Malik in the form of 'Tune
Kaha Jab Se'. And then there are some drags also in
the shape of 'Masoom Chehra', 'Bhangra Pa
Le', 'Zindagi Se Jung' and 'Rabba Pyaar Se'. Fine
then, let's start in a reverse order with the real
bad ones first.
'Zindagi Se Jung' by Alka Yagnik can easily qualify as
the worst song of the album without any
competition far or near. Come on guyz, do you really
want to listen to those early and mid 80's
kind of philosophical songs of Mithun-da and Govinda
era. And if they have really tried to recreate
another 'Zindagi Har Kadam Ek Nayi Jung Hai' from Anil
Kapoor starrer Meri Jung, then someone
has to tell them that they have seriously erred up
somewhere. The song doesn't have any
intensity to move you even a bit. But ya, you have to
move because how else will you reach the
'Forward button' then.
Another downer is 'Masoom Chehra' where both the
singers Alka Yagnik and Kumar Sanu, in
solos, turn by turn accuse their 'once-upon-a-time'
dear one to have given them 'dhoka'. According
to them, it was their 'masoom chehra' - i.e. their
'innocent face' that deceived them and hence lies
the reason for this heartburn. Well, so what do we do
next? Someone told long time back that
Bhangra is a form of dance where you move your feet to
the beats. But then 'Bhangra Pa Le' by
Udit Narayan and Vasundhra Das defy these norms. There
isn't just anything exciting about the
composition where you can think of putting on the
number the next time you have a party at home
or college or disc !!!
Whereas Anuradha Sriram has more or less settled with
the 'Duppatta' genre of songs,
Vasundhara Das dangerously seems to be going the
'Rabba' way, what with 'Rabba Pyaar Se
Mila De' after the super successful 'Rabba Rabba' from
AKS. Hope there are better things in store
for us from this talented singer-actress who is
capable of delivering much-much better than this
very average dance number 'Rabba' from Talaash.
OK, OK...so now as the promise was, we will say some
better things about Talaash as well. Alka
Yagnik shines in all good to average songs - Yaar
Badal Na Jaana, Baaga Maa Jab Mor Bole,
Tune Kaha Jab Se Haan and Dil Le Gaya Pardesi -
especially in her solos Baaga Maa Jab Mor
Bole and Dil Le Gaya Pardesi. Though good imitations
of Nadeem Shravan's numbers, they at
least hold your interest (unlike the numbers discussed
earlier). 'Baaga Ma' is based on
Rajasthaani folk tunes and (just !!) reminds of 'Morni
..Baaga Maa Bole Aadhi Raat Maa' from
Lamhe. A good number. 'Dil Le Gaya Pardesi' is a
typically Indian composition and again bears
resemblance to Uttam Singh's 'Kab Tak Chup Baithe Ab
To Kuch Hai Bolna' from Dil To Paagal
Hai.
'Yaar Badal Na Jaana Mausam Ki Tarah' is thankfully
some good composition but then it again
borrows lyrics from 'Mausam Ki Tarah Tum Bhi Badal To
Naa Jaayoge' from
Akshay-Karsima-Darshan trio's Jaanwar. Incidentally
'Tune Kaha Jab Se Haan' (which is the best
track in the album) is the only one which doesn't
borrow either the tune or the lyrics. Moral of the
story - 'ORIGINALITY PAYS'.
Well, if you doubt so many comparisons and resemblance
then go buy the album and hear it for
your yourself !!!
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