Film Love Aaj Kal director is Imtiaz Ali, music director Pritam Chakraborty and lyricist, Irshad Kamil, who regaled us with a fresh as the morning dew music of the heart-warming superhit, JAB WE MET, are back once again. And this time its under the banner of Illumanti Films, whose producer is ”Chote Nawab”,  Saif Ali Khan. The name of stars are Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Giselle Monteiro, Rishi Kapoor, Rahul Khanna, Neetu Singh, Vir Das, and Raj Zutshi.

The title can be read as a pun on time and memory and reflects the narrative’s division into two parallel love stories from aaj (today) and kal (yesterday): Harleen Kaur and Veer Singh in India 40 years ago, and Meera Pandit and Jai Vardhan Singh in London and India, present day. In contrasting the opinion of two versions of the same person (Saif Ali Khan as Jai in 2009 and Veer in 1965), the story gives some hints about what love aaj kal (these days) is and could be.

Neeraj Shridhar, Master Saleem, Suzi Q, Sunidhi Chauhan, Mohit Chauhan, K k and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan are singers of this movie. “Love Aaj Kal” have a funtastic music specially for younger. Lovely combination of simple guitar strums as well as crunch guitar sounds herald one of the most rhythmic track of the album ” Aahuh Aahun”.

Background music by Salim-Sulaiman is unobtrusive and at the same time helps carry the narrative from scene to scene. Pritam’s score (with lyrics by Irshad Kamil) fares better within the film, enhancing and commenting on the storyline, than as stand-alone songs.

If someone was listening to my cries over the first track, instantly second track made me fly high. A haunting whistling sound coming from a distant place with winds blowing, and Voila !! Mohit Chauhan !! Singing ‘Yeh Dooriyaan’ a regular, soaked in sweetness, lovely song by Mohit. Words by Irshad Kamil, does fantastic job. And the ‘theme’ the song has, must be used in various parts of the movie. Also it is used in Main Yahaan Hoon track. Fresh breeze of romance is felt all around. Traces of Tum Se Hi are felf here too.

Next track ‘Chor Bazari’ is a fun foot tapping track. Girl and boy having fun. Sung by Neeraj Shridhar [again] with Sunidhi Chauhan. Though composition is quite insteresting but it fails to hold up the attention. Just a few seconds into the ‘mukhda’ and the all too familiar and popular ‘been’ notes from the evergreen classic ”Man Dole” engulfs the listeners and any novice can say that Pritam has another chart cracker of a number up his sleeve in the form of ”Twist”, and next songs are ‘Main Kya Hoon’, ‘Ajj Din Chadheya’, ‘Thoda Thoda Pyar’.

”Chor Bazari-Remix” is one of those rare instances where the remix is better than the original. So let us do the ritual, through our final verdict, which is obvious! On the whole, the audio album of LOVE AAJ KAL.
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