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By Abid Š2006 Bollyvista.com |
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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna |
The album concludes on a very sombre mood with 'Farewell Trance' (by DJ Shane), featuring Shweta Pandit and Caralisa. While trance mix is quite popular in the West, it is a new concept for India, though it has some presence in Goa. It can be classified as sort of semi-instrumental version of mainly the title track 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'. The track commences with soft 'jaltarang' and crackling thunder sounds and later some pacy lovely piano notes, orchestra, woodwinds, bass guitar and flute takes over. The pace is breathtaking but the piano dominates! Caralisa appears with some profound thoughts - "No distance is too great, for your memory to live on ... you and I will live on in our dreams ... Never say goodbye." Shweta is mainly for background crooning. A very haunting piece indeed that is quite different from the usual so-called instrumentals, though this one is more of a trance mix, as we have already specified.
On the whole, the 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna' album is notch above 'Kal Ho Naa Ho', slightly better than 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham' but a shade below the audio of 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'.
Why it scores over the other recent biggies like 'Fanaa' and 'Krrish' (that our friends have accused us of bringing down!) is due to three simple reasons. All the 7-tracks are original, the compositions and the quality is consistently good throughout the album and not restricted to just a couple of tracks. Last but not the least, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy have not rehashed their own tunes. Grab it and watch it owning the charts before the month of June ends!
Rating: 8.5/10 |
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