Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi: Music Review
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (RNBDJ) is the latest film for the stables of YRF Films which also marks the return of Aditya Chopra in the directorial role after 8 years. The music has been composed by Salim-Sulaiman and the lyrics are penned by Jaideep Sahni. Being a YRF film the expectations are high for a film that also has a tag line of an Extraordinary Love Story behind an Ordinary Jodi. Let’s see if it has an extraordinary music as well.
The album kicks off with a romantic number Tujh Main Rab Dikhta Hai sung by Roop Kumar Rathod. The song’s a romantic number sung by a lover for his beloved. The song sounds pretty okay during the first listening. But the beautiful lyrics by Jaideep Sahni takes the song to a different plane. Roop Kumar Rathod sings the song soul fully making the song even more enjoyable. The orchestration is pretty simple with usage of minimal western instruments.
The second number of the album is the one that kick-started the promotional campaign of RNBDJ – Haule Haule. Sung to perfection by a wonderfully restrained Sukhwinder Singh and aided by simple but effective lyrics by Jaideep, the song makes makes one forget about all other thoughts while listening to the song. There is a violin interlude in the song which sticks out like a sore thumb, but it may be fitting for the situation of the movie. The song’s already popular during the promos and with this Sukhvinder has ensured that he’ll only sing superhit songs for SRK.
Sunidhi Chauhan sings the third song of the album Dance Pe Chance Maar. A peppy song with some decent beats is sung with verve and gusto by Sunidhi Chauhan. There’s a small bit of Punjabi funk thrown in by Labh Janjua and is a pretty enjoyable fare about the heroine teaching dancing to her soniya/mahive. Jaideep comes out with some interesting lyrics as well.
Pehle Haath Gume Le Yaara
Jaise Suiya Saath Se Barah
Yeh ban Gaya Step Soniya
Tu Ban Gaya Hep Soniya
The fourth song of the album – which one suspects will be the piece-de-resistance of RNBDJ – is Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte. It’s an ode to the legends of the Indian film industry – Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna and Rishi Kapoor. And just to make a point as to who the current legends are, the punchline has the lyrics – Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (Aamir Khan) Phir Milenge (Salman Khan) Chalte Chalte (SRK). Sonu Nigam sings the song through the various twists in the words and eras with elan and seems to be enjoying himself. It’s tough to imagine any other singer doing justice to the song the way he did. The musical arrangement is pretty western in this song with some of the appropriate yesteryear tunes also being incorporated. It was pleasant to hear tablas being used instead of drums during the build up of the punchline lyrics. Jaideep Sahni also seems to have fun threading in various film names/song lyrics while making coherence as well.
Tere Ghar Ke Saamne Ghar Banaooga Toota Hi Sahi
Pal Bhar Ke Liye Koi Hame Pyar Kar Le Jhoota Hi SahiMehfil Mehfil Tu Phire
Yahoo Yahoo Dil Kare.
The song ends with a nod to YRF by – O Meri Chandni.
Shreya Ghoshal rounds of the album with the female version of Tujh Main Rab Diktha Hain. It’s a slow and a saddish number sung with the sweetness that we are accustomed to hear from Shreya. A small number that sounds good while it lasts.
There also a remix called Dancing Jodi, which is nothing great to write home about.
After hearing the orchestra heavy songs in Yuvvraj & Ghajini and some heavy punjabi beats of Oye Lucky (although all the three are undoubtedly very good), the soothing compositions of RNBDJ do sound very pleasant to the ears. In Mohabatein, the earlier release of Aditya Chopra, the album was as long as an average Rajat Kapoor movie. Thanks fully this time round the number of songs are kept to a minimum and seem to be more situational as well. As is the norm today, the album sale might see a meteoric rise if the movie becomes a hit.
On the Whole Overall an above average album.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
When I heard the album for the first time I actually did not like any song apart from Haule Haule.But on repeated hearing I’ve started liking Chance Pe Dance & also Tujh main Rab Dikta hai.Though the album doesnt boast of a fiery soundtrack, its still decent enough & I feel if the movie does well, the songs will get noticed even more.
@ To be frank, apart from Haule-haule and chance pe dance , none of the songs have repeatd value!
lol heavy songs mean good and experimental, i mean here aditya could od so much but he stuck in his safe zone.
a disappointing album.I really miss Jatin-Lalit who had given great soundtracks for Aditya earlier
Ya i think this album is strictly ok…..very cliched, very commercial…not a single track that tries to be diff nor has been there any experimentation in terms of sound at all….
@cinemausher, trimoneo
Yeah..Adi Chopra hasn’t experimented with the music..but then all throughout his career graph..he has been consistently non-experimental..so no surpises here..
@ sharath
Well i was not a great fan of the work that Jatin-Lalit did for Mohabatein..so am happy that they are not giving the music this time round..
There was a rumour that initially Rehman was approached for the music of rab Ne..but for some reason things couldn’t work out and then Salim-Sulaiman was roped in..wonder what the quality would have been if Rehman was part of the project !
So a lot of inital reviewers seems to think otherwise. SHahrukh cannot get over such romantic masalas. He needs them like caffeine/nicotine or whatever to keep coming back with such mush mush movies over and over agin