Geetanjali

Here those two hearts are, ‘Aaoge Jab Tum‘, the song itself from ‘Jab We Met‘ (2007) directed by Imtiaz Ali and the song ‘Naan Mozhi Arindhaen‘ from its Tamil remake Kanden Kadhalai (2009) directed by Kannan. Though Kanden Kadhalai is 60 percent scene by scene remake of Jab We Met, it too has a heart of its own. And that’s what makes both the movies work for me. I have no problem with remakes unless their sole purpose is to take the story to a wider audience than box office collections or hero worships.

And in that case, Kanden Kadhalai bodes well. It may not match Jab We Met at every level of comparison there is, but in the department of soundtrack both the movies are nothing but a delight to the target audience like us. What I mean by target audience is the group of people like me who have the habit of listening to same or similar songs in different languages, the songs used in movies that are remade in any other regional language than the original one and so and so. So when I first came across ‘Aaoge Jab Tum‘, my mind was automatically connecting it to ‘Naan Mozhi Arindhaen‘. For people who don’t know, I am guy from Tamil Nadu, so I had the experience of watching Kanden Kadhalai before Jab We Met.

Nevertheless, both the songs may have a similar vibe but they are different by a large magnitude. The setup and the characters are the same but the words and the music differs in a subtle manner that even if we mix them, there will be no problem in continuity. Geet, Anjali, Aditya, Shakti, Bhatinda, Theni, Shimla, Coonoor. None of these things matter when you can enjoy both the songs as identical twins who differ only in the way how they express themselves in Hindi and Tamil simultaneously.

Imagine Aditya (Shahid Kapoor) singing to Geet (Kareena Kapoor),

or Shakti (Bharath) singing to Anjali (Tamannaah),

See, it works both ways without a glitch.

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