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By Joginder Tuteja, October 13, 2003 - 12:31 IST
After Fiza, Khalid Mohamed returns with another female-centric movie - Tehzeeb. If Fiza had Jaya Bachchan and Karsima Kapoor with Hrithik Roshan in company, Tehzeeb has Shabana Azmi and Urmila Matondkar as the main protagonists with Arjun Rampal, Diya Mirza and Rishi Kapoor (in sp. appearance) providing support. Urmila, who is going places these days with plum projects like Tehzeeb and Pinjar, plays the title role in this flick that also marks the return of A.R.Rahman to Hindi music industry after some very long time. Majority of lyrics are either by Javed Akhtar saab or traditional. A.R.Rahman - the name, as always, spells M-A-G-I-C. Kya Rahman ka jadoo fir se chalega? This is the question on everyone's lips. Do not wonder much. Just read on!!
Arjun Rampal, looking as dashing as ever dances his way through the streets and the commoners and you are dead sure that 'Ya, the magic begins !!'. "Wow" - you say when Shaan excellently croons 'Khoyee Khoyee Aankhen' . A very sweet sounding track elevated mainly due to its excellent choreography and cinematography. It is a sure-shot instant hit with the class and mass alike and you know why music by Rahman is always awaited with so much curiosity.
Traditional lyrics adapted from Shad Azimabadi are another jewels on the crown and you wonder how Rahman has done this !!
'Meherbaan Meherbaan' follows soon and you are taken through the waves of ecstasy. As Javed Akhtar saab has promised, his lyrics are away from the normal dil-vil-pyaar-vyaar stuff and still invoke the great feeling of love. Urmila dons clothes which are a designer's delight whereas the imaginative choreography with the long sheets of clothes being thrown around create a spell-bounding affect. Ashaji renders superbly for this track that has Sukhwinder Singh turning the song around marvelously with his high pitched rendering of the title - 'Meherbaan'. A winner all the way !!
The numbers that soon follow one after the another are 'Na Shiqwa Hota', 'Mujhpe Toofan Uthaye' and 'Sabaq Aisa' and it seems as if suddenly there is a 'U' turn when you were driving at a speed of 80mph on a freeway. You listen to them once, then you listen to it again and then you give it a third chance! Why? Because the elders have told that 'Beta, Rahman's music grows on you' !! But then why doesn't it happen this one time again? Why you just don't want to leave everything and just play it on again? Why doesn't rest of the score create the same excitement as one expected when you were listening to 'Khoyee Khoyee' and 'Meherbaan'? Probably because this is what the film-makers had in mind when they were getting the music of 'Tehzeeb' - "Get 2-3 tracks which pull in the masses and compose rest of the tracks as per the theme of the movie by mainly focusing on the elite audience!"
'Na Shiqwa Hota' by Sujata Bhattacharya (who also does 'Mujhpe Toofan Uthaye' and 'Sabaq Aisa') is a very old fashioned number that talks about 'You wouldn't have been complaining if you would have known my helplessness'. An average track that is certainly not going to create any ripples in the Hindi music industry. Don't know why, but a single line of the same track sung by Vijaya also appears for a few seconds !!
'Sabaq Aisa' is another slow moving number with the similar results. A number which very select audience may identify with due to some heavy duty lyrics by Javed saab. This is certainly not for the masses. 'Mujhpe Toofan' is a ghazal, which is again traditional and adapted from Dagh Dehlvi. Not a very great composition which sounds very un-Rehman-ish. 'I wanna be free' is a cry of liberation by Anupama and Mathangi and written by 'Blaaze'. A fast moving track, it doesn't really help in getting the 'once high' tempo of the album back, which was created, in the start.
Even the album company tries it's best to carry the album till the end by repeating the track 'Meherbaan Meherbaan' but by then the disappointment has already crept in. The once excited mood, which was at it's best due to the very sight of having a Rahman album on the stands is dampened due to some very average compositions that may not really be lapped up by the commoners. One may not really put his money on this album that succeeds to marginal extent just because of a couple of foot-tapping tracks.
 
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