Y.M.I. & Aagey Se Right: Music-vusic Oye!
While everyone is going latoo over APKGK’s music (read Tu Jaane Naa), I felt like writing about some slightly older OSTs which might have slipped off the radar—Y.M.I. and Aagey Se Right.
Yeh Mera India
Bas ji, sirf 4 tracks hai Y.M.I. mei. But, it’s quality not quantity that matters, hai naa?
Bansuri is a nice soft-rock composition from the Siddharth-Suhas duo, sung by Zubeen Garg (check out Zubeen’s Shola Shola from London Dreams, too!). The first couple of seconds reminded me of Kaisi Hai Yeh Zindagaani (Gangster). Lyrics by the film’s director N. Chandra take a philosophical approach—
Kabhi sochaa hai ke bansuri ke sur mei itnaa dard kyun hai?
Kabhi sochaa hai ke sookhe iss shareer mei itnaa ehsaas kyun hai?
Kabhi chhooti thi yeh daali apne patto se,
Kabhi tooti thi yeh daali apni shaakhon se,
Phir aaj bhi hawaa ke jhonke se suro par yeh manchalti kyun hai?
Kavita Seth (Iktaara/Wake Up Sid; Mujhe Mat Roko/Gangster) writes, composes and sings the remaining three songs and she does an impressive job in all three departments (although I’m a bit confused since some sites are crediting Charanjit Charan for Aap Roothe Rahein’s lyrics, and Aasrif Dehlvi for Dil Mandir Hai’s lyrics.)
Starting off with a brief drum roll, and then the harmonium coming in, Aap Roothe Rahein has a relaxing lazy feel and Kavita sings it as if nashe mei ho, music ke nashe mei of course :-) The slow pace of the song might take a few repeat listens to get into.
Aap roothein rahein,
Hum manaate rahein,
Baakhudaa aise pal roz aate rahein.
Aarzoo hi rahe,
Umr bhar aur woh,
Paas aate rahein,
Door jaate rahein,
Baakhudaa aise pal roz aate rahein.
Humko unki wafaa par yakeen hai humein,
Aazmaate hai woh, aazmaate rahein,
Baakhudaa aise pal roz aate rahein.
Khatm ulfat kaa apni fasaanaa naa ho,
Woh sunne raat bar, hum sunaate rahein,
Baakhudaa aise pal roz aate rahein.
Dil Mandir Hai is my favorite song from Y.M.I. The song has gorgeous lyrics, beautiful alaaps scattered throughout the composition, and deep vocals by Kavita Seth. It’s an intense, soulful song worth many repeat listens… The alaaps and strings from 1.53 to 2.12 are very beautiful.
Dil mandir hai,
Dil masjid hai,
Dil hi rab kaa ghar hai.
Dil saagar hai,
Dil ambar hai,
Dil mei hi dilbar hai.
Dil toote naa,
Koi roothe naa.
Dil ke dard ki dawaa pyaar hai dil-waalo,
Dil kaa karaar yaar kaa deedaar hai dil-waalo,
Dil kaa chain, dil ki khushi dildaar ki nazar hai…
Dil ki jisne li duaa chain milaa ussi ko,
Dil rakhne kaa maalik ne diyaa achaa silaa ussi ko,
Dil tootaa huaa jissne jodaa woh pyaaraa bashar hai.
More Naina is a folk song, but IMO not as enjoyable as Dil Mandir Hai and Aap Roothe Rahein. Even the lyrics don’t offer much (except for the lines “Nazarein bhi humi pe, pardaa bhi humi se?”—
Kabhi un madhbhari aankhon se piyaa thaa ek jaam,
Aaj tak hosh nahin hosh nahin hosh nahin.
Nainaa nainaa tore nainaa nainaa, nainaa nainaa tore nainaa,
More nainaa tum sang laage, more nainaa tum sang laage.
Aagey Se Right
Although Aagey Se Right’s music came out a few months ago, it wasn’t until last week that I actually bothered to check out the songs. It was a pleasant surprise, actually. Amartya Rahut shows a lot of promise as a music composer.
Ram Sampath is guest composer just for Daav Laga and singer Sona Mohapatra and lyricist Munna Dhiman par daav lagaa kar bahut baddi ghalati ki, lol. This hip-hop item number would have been enjoyable to listen to if Sona didn’t croon it so unenergetically and flatly and if Munna didn’t write such boring lines like “kyun dartaa hai tu yaar? Mujh pe daav lagaa. Agar himmat hai dildaar mujh pe daav lagaa. Haan kar le do ko chaar, mujh pe daav lagaa.” Yawn. Revisit Sampath’s songs from Khakee instead.
Amartya composes the rest of the tracks in this OST. Didn’t really think a song called Hippie Tu Jhoom would have much substance, but it was very entertaining. In fact, I like it almost as much as Rang Rang Ma :-) It does bring back some memories of Haaye Duniyaa (Dev D). The part with the strings, about 1.46 into the track, is cool! Kirti Sagathia, Amartya and Sunidhi Chauhan take the mic for this mast song with innovative lyrics by Hitesh–
Hippie tu jhoom.
Dariyaa mein ghoom.
Ishq mein hakkaa bakkaa gol gol ghoom. (love the use of the phrase hakkaa bakkaa, lol!
Lehraate jaao balkhaate jaao.
Dil mein, dil mein doob jaao.
Chandaa taare bole saare failaa saagar gote khaaye,
Arre pal mein jeete pal mein haare,
Pyaar dagar mein kyaa parwaa re.
Arrey kahi suni kyun paddtaa re?
Pyaar ke moti gintaa jaa re.
Banke banjaare se, dil ki do raahon pe,
Kholke baahein re, chalte hi jaaye re.
Love Flashback, sung by Bappi Lahiri, is a bhayankar flashback. Suzanne D’Mello and Amartya’s vocals are wasted. In fact, I can’t believe Suzanne actually said yes to sing this song. And, sorry Bappi Da fans but I thought Bappi sounded awful in this song. Even Hitesh’s lyrics are disastrous–
Duniyaa ko nikammaa bol,
Aajaa ghoomein gol gol,
Teri meri love story ho out of control,
Chaabi ghoomein gol gol, pyaar ki tijori khol,
Tere binaa dil hai jaise jootaa binaa sole.
Love flashback, Love flashback.
Now here’s the song that REALLY grabbed my attention: More Piya. Superb, superb, superb! Deepika Bhattacharya has awesome soft vocals—the way she whispers “more piyaa” is nice. The composition meshes a soothing blues feel with Spanish instruments including the Maracas and güiro. There are two versions, the “Bar” version and the “Tapori” version. Both are nice, but Kay Kay’s tapori-isshtyle shaayri—“Husn jaanaa kahoon yaa kahoon tujhe raapchik item? Suroor bhari baatli hai, pi ke jisko madhosh tight ho gayele hum,” and “Ibtidaa-e-lafdaa machal rahele hai jazbaat, Dimaag kaa dahi huaa aur lag gayi jaanu ki vaat.”—is annoying in an otherwise perfect composition. The lyrics by Shadab Akhtar and Manish Hariprasad are beautiful–
More piyaa, saanjh ke dhalte tarse jiyaa, baahein bhi tarse
Kaise kahein yeh hum kisi se sach toh yahi hai
Thoddi khushi thoddi kami hai, zindagi meri hai
More piyaa
Honto pe tehri baat chup si ankahi
Dil mein machi hai ek sargoshi kahin
Baandhein hai mujhko dor kaisi yeh nayi?
Kho naa jaaoon teri meethi baaton mein kahin
Bheegi si baarish mein hum chale tere saath
Tanha nahin hai haathon mein hai teraa haath
Chaahat ki raahon kaa yahin hai bas mukaam
Kadmon ke tere aur mere yeh nishaan
Aankhon ke pyaalon mein nahin kyun jaam koyi?
Tehri si kyun hai mere dil mein yeh nami?
Aahat naa koyi, koyi dastak kyun nahin?
Mehfil saji hai, koyi meraa jo nahin
Machalne lagi hai raat kyun yeh shabnami?
Pighalne lage kyun maum si yeh rut haseen?
Betaabi kyun hai chhalki aankhon se meri?
Dil ke taar mere aaj chhedegaa koyi
Maahiyaa is quite a catchy rock number and the sound of fingers snapping at the beginning is cool. Clinton Cerejo sounds okay (nothing exceptional), but Shilpa Rao sounds great as usual. Hitesh Kewalya’s lyrics are sweet—
Maahiyaa, maahiyaa dil ki kinaare pe, laakhon sitaare hai jhuke,
Palakein jhukaaye aur zulfein uddaaye re, jhonkaa hawaa kaa yun chale.
Bikhri adaa ke ishaare, sehmi nazar ke sahaare pehchaaniye.
Cheen loon main, rok loon main, yeh anjaanaa saa pal,
Kho naa jaaye, khwaaishon mein, yeh anjaanaa saa pal.
Yeh dil cheekhtaa hai yeh ki dil todd de hadhein saari.
Maahiyaa, maahiyaa chaar mulaakaaton mein tu apnaa saa kyun lage?
Dil ki khataa hai yaa nazaron kaa dhokaa yeh? Jo bhi hai chaltaa rahein!
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
Nice post. Tx for sharing. these two definately did miss my ears atleast.
Thanks, Saurabh. Do check out both OSTs!
Just out of curiosity, were any of these songs promoted on television or radio?
I’ve always believed no hindi movie does well without a hit song, and good movies without a hit song always tend to fall flat – mohandas, chintuji etc are recent examples. YMI and Aagey se right also failed, and I dont think Ive ever heard a song from them being promoted.
I think Bansuri was used to promote YMI. Not sure about Aagey Se Right. Anyway, YMI and Aagey Se Right didn’t flop simply because they didn’t have a hit song…there are other factors such as not having a solid screenplay. Many films with hit songs also flop.
Very well written post. Thanks for this, got to hear some more new good songs.
Thanks, Gony Dhoni :-)
In-depth coverage hai ji. Seems like YMI track is very soulful. Especially when it really made your sink into the songs like – ‘The alaaps and strings from 1.53 to 2.12 are very beautiful.’
And also looks like Amartya Rahut has done quite a bit of experimentation!! Acchi review hai ji….sunenge zaroor….
Thank you jee
And zaroor suniye YMI & Aagey Se Right!
I am surprised you haven’t written on the Couples Retreat OST yet!!!
Haan, even I’m surprised I haven’t written about Couples Retreat or Passage. Guess I should do another dual music review post :-)
Amanda – thanks for the detailed reviews – now please cover Tere Sangg and Phir Kabhi! Love these two as well.
:-) First I’ll have to actually listen to both those OSTs. Abhi tak sunnaa nahin maine…
Amanda- really appreciate the effort you put in to highlight soundtracks that are slightly off the beaten track.I’ve seen both YMI & Aagey Se Right and somehow the soundtracks of both didnt really register attention in my case.I guess I need to listen to them again now & find out for myself.
Thanks for the appreciation :-) And, yes, do listen to both OSTs again and let me know what you think.
I also liked “more piya”….. “Aap Roothe Rahe” reminded me a bit of Geeta Dutt , even the music in this track has shades of a Geeta Dutt track .. Kavita has also tried to sing a bit like her .. She should sing more .. Though I still believe this track could have been much better even though it had the perfect singer ..