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By Joginder Tuteja, January 28, 2004 - 17:41 IST
The album cover displays images of Shahrukh and Raveena alongside an anonymous couple. But everything from the look of the stars to the music of the film seems to be a decade old, which goes on to affirm how long the film would have been in making. Nikhil Vinay composes the music of this film, and the album to a major extent is dominated by Kumar Sanu (well he was much popular then).
The album opens with a duet "Tera Naam Lene Kee" by Kumar Sanu and Sadhana Sargam that is a direct lift of the track "Tumhare Siva" from Tum Bin. But then Tum Bin too was composed by Nikhil Vinay so you can just kvetch that the musician duo have reused their tune here. However, the fact is other way round. Nikhil Vinay had originally composed the tune for YLJK, but with the film's uncertainty and prolonged delay in release they reused it in Tum Bin. Nevertheless the tune pales high time in comparison to the one in Tum Bin, with its trivial musical arrangements. Sadhana Sargam sounds more like Anuradha Paudwal while Kumar Sanu is just not doing.
The next two tracks remind kind of those tacky numbers played at the highway-da-dhaba. “Yeh Dil Hai Ya Sheesha” by Sanu does not appeal even with Shahrukh crooning it on screen. With “Tum Paas Ho Jab Mere” by Kumar Sanu and Asha Bhonsle, Nikhil Vinay venture into the Nadeem-Shravan territory which is quite evident with a cyclic Jhankaar Beat pattern flowing in the background. But the much below average number fails to impress!
“Yaadien Teri Yaadien” is the title song though named otherwise in the credit. It appears in two versions happy and sad, though both make you sad. Kumar Sanu croons both the versions, which again is a straight rip-off of Tum Bin's title track.
Comes next an item number “Ram Kasam Dilli Sarkar” composed by some Rajendra Salil that adds to the mayhem. While most item numbers attempt to elate the prospects of the film and the album, this one does exactly the opposite. Alka Yagnik would surely prefer to forget this song of her career.
And by the time Asha Bhosle attempts to arouse some interest with “Mere Dil Ko Kare Bekaboo” (with Udit Narayan) and the Punjabi flavored “Teriya Mohabbatan”, you have already lost hopes.
To sum up, the music of YLJK lacks the very essence of freshness throughout. You carry nothing with you by the end but some fast forward memories.
Completely avoidable!
 
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