Monday, January 28, 2008
A gorgeous melody.. not as good a picturization
Roshan stands no 3 on my list of best composers for Lata which is no mean feat considering the people just below him are legends like Salil Chowdhury, Sajjad Husain. Sachin Dev Burman, Madan Mohan etc. and one of the prime reasons for this exalted position is demonstrated in the sublime melody from "Zindagi aur hum" - "tuu hamako dekh aur hamaarii nazar se dekh". The song is a musical triumph of Lata's divine singing, Roshan's simplistic, ethereal melody creation and the romantic lyrics. I imagine a moonlit night with Nalini Jaywant gently caressing her lover's hair as he lies on her lap.. a gentle breeze blows across the trees.. Nalini Jaywant because for one she is the heroine of this film (as per the titles) and more importantly, I think she is one of the best emoters to Lata's singing. "Naubahaar" is an example. But I was sorely disappointed to see (thanks to a kind soul at Youtube) that the song was picturized on Chand Usmani and the picturization itself was patchy and hardly as romantic as the song intends to me. Where is the gentleness, that subdued but undoubtable sensuality that the song sings ? Ah well.. just another instance of the picturization and the song being in different directions altogether...
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