Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

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Credits
Producer/s:	Dharma Productions / Hiroo Yash Johar
Director:	Karan Johar
Music:	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy ('Farewell Trance' by DJ Shane & 'Mitwa Revisited' by SEL and Indrajit Sharma)
Lyrics:	Javed Akhtar
Vocals:	Alka Yagnik, Caralisa, Loy, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Shaan, Shankar Mahadevan, Shweta Pandit, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Sonu Nigam and Vasundhra Das
Label:	Sony BMG

We welcome you to the most thorough music review of one of the most awaited movies of the second half of 2006; Karan Johar's 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'. It comes from one of the biggest production houses, that has in the recent past given us 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai', 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham' (both directed by Karan), 'Kal Ho Naa Ho' (directed by Nikhil Advani) and 'Kaal' (directed by Soham Shah). As the music of all the four was grand, apart from of course the movies (barring 'Kaal'), the expectations from 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna' assume mammoth proportions.

Before we analyze the 7-tracks, there are two things that one notices. The bonus feature which is 'KANK- The First Look' (playable only on a PC) and Karan Johar's inspiration behind making the movie (His first after his father Yash Johar's demise in 2004).

Titled 'Director's Note', it goes like this:

There are three kinds of married people. First, there are those whose marriages are arranged. I've never quite understood that, but 'I'm sure they know what they're doing. Then there are those who fall in love and marry their soul mates. These few, I believe are the most fortunate people in the world. And lastly, there are those couples that marry for their parents, for money or play it safe and marry a friend. These are the most unfortunate ones in the world ... and they don't even know it. Until one day, riding the fast train of life they run into their soul mate and are faced with the hardest question of all. What do you do when you meet the love of your life and you're married to someone else? What do you do? What do you do?

Back to what we are here for, let us listen to the first song or more appropriately the title track, 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna', featuring Sonu Nigam and Alka Yagnik. Soft piano notes begin the proceedings, as Sonu croons to Javed Akhtar's mind-blowing lyrics -

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