It was time to head back home after a near grueling day at work.
Music, particularly Indian film music for me, lends itself to various interpretations and recollections in a different light (no pun intended) at different time points, moods, frames of mind and milieus. More often than not, top notch US roads do help.
This time it was So Gaya Yeh Jahaan (N Chandra's Tezaab 1988).
Alka Yagnik's chubby voice dipped in milk, and honey helped Madhuri Dixit pine; Shabbir Kumar's vocal chords seemed as if they were perennially stretched to the limit allowing gusts of air to go in, go out, go in, go out (imagine Alif Laila, Alif Laila, Alif Laila) helping Anil Kapoor reminisce; Laxmikant-Pyarelal, taking a detour from their heavy duty arrangements deeply rooted in India and Indianness, brought in a delightful rock star orchestration with a nice backup vocal chorus .
Of course, the star of the song, Nitin Mukhesh. I can only imagine a wood pecker at work going about what it does best when I think of the nasal Nitin Mukhesh on this track. Man, Chunkey Pandey couldn't have asked for more!
Could I be ported back to my naive '80s?
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