ARR's Jodhaa Akbar

Jodhaa Akbar - A R Rahman's musical has been released and there are 5 songs and 2 additional instrumentals. With most of the ARR music, your initial reaction will be that the album had good music but there's just one or two catchy numbers. IMHO, this one falls in that category too. You will instantly hum "Khwaja Mere Khwaja", very catchy number, as soon as you hear first time. This one is sung by ARR. The voice mixing in this song is breath-taking. "Is Lamhon" sung by Sonu Nigam & Madhushree is another catchy number. There are other 2 solo songs by Javed Ali and Bela Shende (both the singers not so familiar to me) which will take 2-3 times listenings to get additional details. "Shehansha" song is a fast number and a good one too.

ARR has done so many periodical/historical before, so his effort in giving something new and in the process also maintaining the feel and mood of the century that this film was set is commendable. There is only so much you can do as a musician when it comes to historical, so it will be interesting to see how the songs are picturized.

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