Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Sukoon is a modern-day masterpiece

Promise yourself one thing. You will enter the world of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Ghazal album Sukoon without prejudice. I did it. And if I can do it, so can anyone. I’ve never listened to any voice closely except one. To me, music begins and ends with Lata Mangeshkar. But of course, I am aware that Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle too were great in their own way.

In present times, I find Arijit Singh overrated, and monotonous. Shreya Ghoshal is okay when she is not busy showing off. She has sung two Ghazals for Bhansali’s breezy but never lightweight album Sukoon. Of them, she is better in Tujhe Bhi Chand, which has a playful lit and an evocative hook line recalling those imperishable songs by Lataji like Chanda ja chanda ja re ja (composed by Madan Mohan).

Shreya’s interpretation of Momin Khan Momin’s immortal Ghazal Woh jo hum mein tum mein qaraar tha is laborious. That vocal effortlessness which the intricate words and compositions require is heard, surprisingly, in the voice of Armaan Malik in the Ghalib Hona Hai (references to Ghalib are fragrantly strewn across the album), a deceptively breezy beguilingly contemporary and yet intrinsically traditional composition, Armaan hits all the right notes with his surprisingly even singing.

But the real star of the Ghazal Ghalib Hona Hai is the poet A M Turaz. He has written for Bhansali’s cinema in the past, in Guzaarish and Padmaavat. In Sukoon his poetic sensibilities rival that of some of the greatest Urdu/Hindi poets of Hind cinema.

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