I initially thought that the music of Yuva sucked pretty uniformly and I was completely sure of it. uff..khuda. The music is catching on and I dont know wot to do about it. The last time this happened was for Main Hoon Na, whose songs I abs adore now. Not with this album, again. I was pretty sure the songs sucked with the amount of orchestration put in. random lyrics, only dhish dhish.

well, with time, the lyrics haven't changed but the feeling of the music has and i've grown to like it (not really!) I'd imagined that the movie, coming from Mani Ratnam wud have the strong romantic feeling associated with it. Yet, the music seems to convey a strong on-the-run feeling. the 3 pairs running away from home? or well chased for a murder they havent committed? hoho. ARR's experiments lead me to define a notion of rhythmically appeasing class of music. hoho. much like wot we call hummable melodies, these songs have a tappable attraction to them. often they are interspersed with quite hummable melodies. of course u wont be able to hum them since they appear rite in middle of deafening percussion. enuf. i must rant less at a meta-level n talk more abt songs.

2 favs: baadal jo aaye, kabhi neem. a 3rd one khuda hafiz for its wonderful on-the-run percussion. alka yaagnik deserves terrific kudos for on-the-fly enthralling performance. the way she pauses after aaayee before she sings the whole line is beautiful. of course, adnan sami cudn't be less better but the flows in alka's voice remind you of Asha in accha ji main haari. (again the mode of comm is nothing new, all i feel good about is the re-creation in contemporary times). madhushree (who?) has sung the kabhi neem neem number, altho i think its sadhna sargam. the credits are wrong. really wrong! hoho. noone but her can create the rustic aura around the song. rem. jhooth ka pat chalkaini from saathiya? anyhow, if its madhushree, she has done a terrific job. really incredible.
and finally the bang bang hey khuda haafiz. mehboob, the doode! this is the last warning. either come up with good lyrics or pls, pls pls quit the filmi industry. why put that khuda haafiz stuff right at the beginning of the crappy number? it sounds seducing does it? damn. anyhow, the reverberating anjaaanaa...anjaaani... make for an incredible on-the-run screenplay. and here's one damn good dance number for me to do the energizer-bunny dance to (hoho, they say thats how i dance). of course, the desi DJs are stuck in the ancient world of punjabi mc n shaawa shaawa, one can never hope they'll get to appreciate or even introduce such songs. aeklaa dance koro re! hoho.

now sth completely unrelated: I was looking out today morn for the new desi beauties at the miss india thing. Now, I dont know if it is me or there is something actually wrong with the way they were looking when the camera clicked. Most of them have a look which one of my friends wud euphemistically call "unconventional". I think they look terrible downright. (slight exceptions: aarti, sahiba, chesz looks hot, mexican). why cant we have familiar next-door faces here? lovely, charming, some amount of symmetrical well-ordering of features. of course, tanushree dutta is from jamshedpur n only other biharis cud be more proud than i am, but i really think she doesnt have that familiar look to provide. I guess then all the khel is abt unconventional faces, sought out anxiously by model-hunters. another possibility is that my sense of beauty has really grown old, which might well be true given all these newcomer heroines look alike to me. but, why to worry? indulgence is the rule with art forms, rem? indulge more n suroor chadhta nazar aayega. hoho.