Not music to the ears!

Syed Firdaus Ashraf

What's with Nadeem Shravan?

The tunes of Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya are so sorrowfully disappointing you wonder what happened to the men who gave us compositions like Sochenge tumhe pyaar [picturised on Rishi Kapoor and Divya Bharati in Deewana], Tum dil ki dhadkan ho and Dil ne yeh kaha hai dil se [the first picturised on Sunil Shetty and Shilpa Shetty, the second on Akshay Kumar and Shilpa Shetty in Dhadkan].

The title song Hum yaar hain tumhare is just about passable. There's no danger of you recollecting it after you hear the song once.

There are five songs in the film. Only one, Zindagi ko bina pyaar is worth listening to. Soothing, with good lyrics, it has a good choral backup. Sung by Kumar Sanu and Sarika Kapur, it also has another solo version by Alka Yagnik. Of the five songs, three are repeated.

The unfortunate part here is lyricist Sameer's English insertions into a blatantly Hindi song. It would have been okay, had the question of whether those English insertions were really necessary or not arisen.

Sameer's lyrics in Pyaar, dil, lab, nazar spins no magic. As does the melody of Har kisike dil mein -- it's just a not-so-skilful rehash of Nadeem Shravan's earlier tunes. It's even reminiscent, at one point, about the Aamir Khan and Pooja Bhatt song Tu pyaar hai kisi aur ka in Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin. Why, one wonders, was the need for that jarring Darling, I need you in this song?

Teri aankhon ka andaz, the last song in the cassette is also repetitive and has nothing new to offer.

What, one wonders, will be the fate of the film -- which stars Abhishek Bachchan, Karisma Kapoor and Akshay Kumar -- if the music is so listless?