I really liked the movie Jab We Met for its songs. I thought Pritam (the composer) was an absolute genius, until the hour that I was told practically every song in the movie was plagiarized. In any case, there is this one song in the movie which is original, and which also happens to be my favorite from the album – “Aaoge Jab Tum”.
Sung by Ustad Rashid Khan, a classical singer with a distinctively heavy voice, this song comes off as melancholy to a listener who may not have seen the movie. However, upon watching the movie one realizes that this song is actually shot in a happy context...or at least so I thought looking at the bashful grin on Kareena Kapoor's grape-shaped face in the song.
This contrast between the perception of what one imagines a song would be and how it turns out to be shot in reality, is a common occurrence in our Hindi films. However, in this case it does not take anything away from the song. It is one of those songs that doesn’t appeal in the first listen but steadily grows upon you as you listen again, and again. I love it.
As for Pritam, yes he lifts tunes, but he does have a knack of rejuvenating nondescript tunes from Korean TV serials and Lebanese folk songs into super-hit Hindi songs..you’ve got to give him that…..
Click HERE to listen to my (obviously inferior and amateur) version of this one.
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