This song popped on the Jatin-Lalit playlist that I pick up on those rare days when I’m feeling a little relaxed.
I’ve loved this song ever since I first
heard it on CIBACA GEETMALA and it gives me a similar kind of joy each time.
Listening to the song yesterday felt like I was meeting an old friend after
years.
What strikes me this time is that this song
is rather basic. We have a series of
electronic beats supporting a lilting melody, beautifully sung (Kavita Krishnamurthy
and Udit Narayan) about a sweet romance.
The arrangement is so simple that it seems innocent. It is this innocence that makes this song still endearing—an innocence that we can relate to...innocent hearts enchanted by the fast, yet steady change in the world of the 90s, much like the tempo and beats of this song.
I can actually imagine the young Jatin and
Lalit experimenting with their Roland or Casio keyboard in their home studio. I’m
sure many kids in the 90s, fascinated by the preset beats and sounds of the
electronic keyboard, tried at least once to put those sounds together and imagined
for a few minutes that they had a gift!
While saying all this, I don't mean to take
away J & L’s talent. They poured romance right into our hearts for many, many
years and we all know it.
In Bin
Tere Sanam, they combine the fast homemade beats with strong “catchy-matchy”
vocals and that’s what made this song stand out then and keeps it fresh even today.
If you know this song well, you exactly know where the beats change and will wait
for it! Of course, the loop of this song is its signature and makes it instantly
recognisable even years later.
I was recently chatting with a good old
friend. Growing up together, we had shared our love of Bollywood music and a whole of
other things. The feeling this song gives me is just like those chats.
