Jao Naa - What's Your Rashee?

Playback - Sohail Sen & Tarannum Malik

Music - Sohail Sen

Lyrics - Javed Akhtar

Jao naa is a song about how one feels good when you have your significant other around you and you don't want them to leave.. it's about a moment which will not come back.. the ambiance, the set up and the likes..

It's a feel good song with a lot of guitar beats and it's also one of the better songs from the film and filmed across the Bandra - Worli sealink in Mumbai at night.. long drives are usually fun :)

Listen to the song here

Raat Ke Dhaai Baje - Kaminey

Playback - Rekha Bharadwaj, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala & Suresh Wadkar

Music - Vishal Bharadwaj

Lyrics - Gulzar

Raat ke dhaai baje is a total nautanki song.. fun to dance on and just have some fun..
It's got Priyanka Chopra playing a maharashtrian bride attempting to be shy and a coy Shahid Kapoor watching.. and then dancing along..

It's an adapt of another beautiful track from the film called 'Pehli Baar Mohabbat'. However, this is a more fun version..

Watch it here:

Iktara - Wake Up Sid

Playback - Amitabh Bhattacharya & Kavita Seth

Music - Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy

Lyrics - Javed Akhtar

Awesome song, awesome music & lyrics (especially the piano & violin in between verses) & extremely well sung with full feeling is what defines Iktara..

Wanted to try and write my interpretation of this song.. but stumbled upon a very well written note posted here by Amitabh Iyer which is a nice read and good explanation of the song..

My favorite lines from the song are:

Orey manva tu to bavra hai
Tu hi jaane tu kya sochta hai
Tu hi jaane tu kya sochta hai bavre
Kyun dikhaye sapne tu sote jaagte

Sun rahi hoon sudh budh khoke koi main kahani
Poori kahani hai kya kise hai pata
Main to kisiki hoke yeh bhi na jaani
Ruth hai ye do pal ki ya rehgi sada
kise hai pata… kise hai pata

No one knows the future.. no one knows what's going to happen and only few can try and predict - to believe it is each one's faith :)

The song comes at a point in the movie when Ranbir Kapoor leaves Konkona Sen's house to go back and live with his parents.. and she is wondering what to make out of her feelings for him and will he ever feel like that..

It's a nice listen.. catch it here and if you're a huge fan of the song.. join the fanpage on FB :)

Shukran Allah - Kurbaan

Playback - Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal & Salim Merchant

Music - Salim - Sulaiman

Lyrics - Prasoon Joshi

Shukran Allah is a song that's peaceful, melodious & features Sonu Nigam who makes the song a winner any way :)

It's got a bit of Urdu/Arabic & English which explains what Shukran Allah means. It means thank God or the Almighty..

It's a love duet with a good blend of the flute, guitar, sounds of a payal jingling and some bit of the tabla - all in all it's a good mix and soothes the ear..

Some of my favorite lines are:

Tere saaye mein mili har khushi
Tere marzi meri zindagi
Le chal tu chaahe jahaan

In your shadow and whatever you wish, is my wish.. take me where you want..

Meri aankhon mein nazar teri hai
Meri shaam o sher teri hai
Tu jo nahi to main kahaan

In my eyes, you're always present
You form part of my day and world
If you're not there, then I'm lost..

Khil gayi meri kismat
Paake teri yeh chaahat
Hum pe meherbaan do jahaan

It's my good luck that I have your love.. and someone's being kind :)
Thank God..

Personally, I thought the Saif-Kareena pairing had more of a hype quotient than the so called 'chemistry'.. Saif looks worn out and old.. Kareena Kapoor looks just about ok.. but all said and done, Karan Johar has learnt the art of making films out of the "romance" genre and is producing some good movies (Wake up Sid, My Name is Khan - looks interesting) .. going the Yash Raj way :)

Shukran Allah is one of my favorite tracks.. and will be for quite a while :)

Watch the video here & find lyrics here.

Wake Up Sid (Club Mix) - Wake Up Sid

Playback - Shankar Mahadevan backing vocals by Loy Mendonsa

Music - Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy

Lyrics - Javed Akhtar

Energy, fun, foot tapping music and life is what the club mix of the title song of Wake up Sid brings out. It's a song for all the sleepy heads out there (me included :) ) to wake up and get going!!

It's also about getting your life on track and getting a hold of things after the easy going, pampered life we lead in our school and college days and coming to terms with reality.. learning to fulfill our needs ourselves and being less dependent on our parents.

It's a feel good song to wake you up and the video of this song is just outstanding & Ranbir Kapoor looks too cute .. watch it here:

Hadippa - Dil Bole Hadippa

Playback - Mika Singh & Sunidhi Chauhan

Music - Pritam

Lyrics - Jaideep Sahni

Rani Mukherji's makeover song (having lost oodles of weight), Shahid Kapoor's good item number(could have done with a better hair cut!) and overall, a nice foot tapping number.. full on Punjabi and well sung by Mika!

Watch it here: