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JORU KA GHULAMThen comes Tumahre bina by Nigam and Jaspinder Narula, and for a moment your hopes rise as you feel Aadesh Srivastava is bac...

JORU KA GHULAM

Then comes Tumahre bina by Nigam and Jaspinder Narula, and for a moment your hopes rise as you feel Aadesh Srivastava is back in form — but eventually, you are let down by the terrible music arrangement of the song. Other than that, this is one sexy song!

Come Side B and with it Meri nazar with Rajesh Misra (who IS he?) and Narula. Sounding like a bad copy of R D Burman, Misra sings — but maybe he shouldn’t have. Kumar Sanu then renders yet another version of Sarkailo khatiya (isn’t he tired by now?) with Alka Yagnik. Khula hai mera pinjra is the start of monotony, which is then carried further by Woh ayee by Nigam and Yagnik. How I wish the woman he’s singing about walked a little faster!

So that’s JKG for you — and now to wait and pray that Aadesh Srivastava’s forthcoming tunes for Kunwara and Bas Itna Sa Khwab Hai are better. This one’s not his best, and leaves a lot to be desired. Not so for the singers, to whom he should be very grateful.

Especially Nigam. At the rate he’s going, all of you planning to hand out those statues for Best Singer Award in 2001, might as well start carving Nigam’s name on them.

(Music: Aadesh Srivastava. Lyrics: Sameer, Tapes/CDs: Venus)

— Sujoy Ghosh