This cross-border JUgalbandi was outstanding

A couple of male crooners. From neighbouring countries. Whose genres of music are dissimilar. One mind-blowing number.

That, in a nutshell, described the title track of Raanjhanaa.

Rendered by Jaswinder Singh (a ghazal singer from Mumbai) and Shiraz Uppal (a pop/rock singer from Lahore), it was the shortest of the four songs from the film on this blog – it was four minutes and 14 seconds long.

By far the most underrated song from what could be described as one of the most underrated A R Rahman soundtracks to date, it was penned by Irshad Kamil.

This track was PoSitiVely catchy

Shakalaka Baby, from Nayak: The Real Hero, is a prime example of a popular song from a below-par film.

It was reused in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Bombay Dreams, whose London production opened in 2002 and ran for a couple of years.

A R Rahman, wasn’t just the composer of the song, but the music director of the musical too.

Its lyrics, which made absolutely no ‘Sen’se, were penned by Anand Bakshi. It was picturised on Sushmita.

The track was rendered by Vasundhara Das, who was joined behind the M(an)icrophone by Pravin and Shiraz Uppal.