By Godard G , January 22, 2008 - 04:47 IST 5 of 5 people found this review helpful
I am not too sure if Joginder would be reading the user reviews posted in this forum. If he does, then he'd surely go clean his ears first and then listen to the tracks of Jodha Akbar once again. If this music and movie was released, distributed and produced by Yash Raj, I am 100% sure that Joginder and Indiafm.com (not to forget Taran Adarsh) would have given this movie and music a 5 star rating. khair.. movie has not released yet... lets talk about the music.. no music director in india other than Sir AR Rahman can take the liberty to only use a handful of instruments to compose such awesome tracks in any movie.
The title song is dominated by drums and a simple orchestra. what a way to begin the album. You could feel that King Akbar has arrived!!
The love track by Sonu Nigam is again a masterpiece. What people dont understand is the variety. Am sure we have never heard such a different track for a love song.. As I said, you need guts to implement something like this and only Sir Rahman has the confidence to take such liberty. Same with Khwaja ji song, and Jashn-e-bahara.. Those who felt Mann Mohana was boring, please listen to the song again and focus on the kind of orchestra Rahman has used.. never tried before.. the arrangement is just perfect for a period movie that deals with Medieval India and yet relates well to the pure audience of current India. With Jodha Akbar, Rahman-Javed-Ashuthosh combo has given us an absolute gem of a music which is at times on par with the Rahman-Gulzaar-Mani Ratnam combination.. I prefer the latter though :)..
Back to Mr. Joginder.. I feel for u buddy.. only because you just dont seem to have the mindset to differentiate brilliance (Rahman) from mediocre (HR, Anu Malik, and new copy cat Pritam)
***** Cant wait for Ghajini Remake, and Main Yuvraj
Favorite song
Azeem-O-Shaan Shahenshah
Would you recommend this soundtrack to your friend: Yes
