Rone de aaj humko,
Tu aankehin sujaane de.
Baahon mein lele, aur khud ko bheeg jaane de.
Hai jo seene mein qaid dariya, who choot jaayega.
Hai itna dard ke tera daaman bheeg jaayega.

The Gulzaresque style of interspersed monologues accentuated by Aamir’s sultry voice – I heard this once and knew instantly that the album would be great - It is, in fact. I haven’t heard a better Hindi soundtrack in some time. Jatin Lalit has turned out a great album – probably his best since Hum Tum.

The Fanaa soundtrack has 6 songs.

The first one “Chaand Sifarish” is a catchy number – reminds me of the Abhijeet songs form the SRK era (not that the SRK era is over or anything ..).

The second one is “Mere haath mein” – that is the one with monologues from Aamir and Kajol. The lyrics are great, the music with a Middle Eastern overtone is fabulous and Sunidhi and Sonu Nigam have done a great job rendering that number.

The folksy dancy number “Des Rangeela” is not bad either.. kind of grows on you.

The one I like best is the “Dekho na” – beautiful lyrics “Phir na hawaayein hongi itni besharam ….. Jugnoo jaisi chahat dekho jale bujhe” – but what I like best is the lower pitch of Sunidhi’s voice. She is great in that song, Sonu, of course, has his usual Deewana style. This song reminded me of the “Dekho na” from Swades. That was a great song too.

The kiddo song with limericks is something I could probably live without – it is funny and catchy, but don’t see myself playing that one on repeat…The instrumental and remix numbers are not bad either -

So after, having this album for 4 days now, I have narrowed it down to 4 tracks that I keep playing again and again –

Dekho na
Mere Haath mein
Chaand Sifarish ..
Des Rangeela