Yeh Sunday Kyun Aata Hai: Music Review

I was interested in the music of this movie for one reason. Kumar Sanu. Yesteryear’s singing star, who is difficult to even find nowadays, is the producer of Yeh Sunday Kyun Aata Hai. Not so surprisingly, Kumar Sanu happens to be the composer for the movie and has definitely given his voice to some songs, and thankfully, not all of them.

While the album is not really great and sounds very Nadeem-Shravanish, the strength of the album is it’s singers. The album boasts of Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan and even Kavita Krishnamurthy besides Sanu, and these singers have added at least something to the album’s almost outdated music.

The album opens with Rang Dharti ke liye (female version), the best of the album. The lyrics of the song are good, music okay, and Sunidhi’s singing superb. The song doesn’t sound so good even when composer (and singer, of course) Kumar Sanu comes up behind the microphone with the same song in a different version. The song also has a child version and Sanu has chosen a non-sophisticated voice for the version (Susheela) in times when we have so many highly talented and trained children singing in TV shows.

Another thing about the song that needs a mention is the lyrics. You might find the use of word ‘Sunday’ a bit strange with all those Urdu words, but in no time you will get adjusted to it and can focus on the rest of the song. The lyrics saying Rang dharti ke liye, noor aasma ke liye, khwab palkon ke liye, khushi jahan ke liye, apne liye gham laata hai, ye Sunday kyun aata hai tell you about the poverty boot polish children face on that one day when offices are closed. I somehow loved these lyrics. Go for the song and leave the album there if you do not like the first song because going further, the level does not increase for sure.

The second song I liked to some extent was Kavita Krishnamurthy’s Chadhkar Girna, mostly for its lyrics and for Kavita’s beautiful voice even over that repetitive music.

Some times it happens that you have pretty much okay music and well-intended lyrics and still you fail to come up with a good song. This is the case with Jisne Sapna Dekha sung by Kumar Sanu. The song has lyrics trying to tell you how important is it to dream, but lines get so mixed up among themselves that the whole result comes up as a confusing stanza while Sanu sings koi baat nahi. The mixing of the song makes me think if Sanu is still using all his contacts from the days of Nadeem Shravan only. It almost makes me nostalgic at times.

Then there is Saawan na Bheegi sung by Sunidhi, an item song in a movie about children. I wonder why the song has been appended to the album, but in any case, the song is just okay though it is a bit catchy and could work well had it been released a decade back.

And finally, the two songs due to which this review was kept as a draft for more than a week. Dagdu Dada and Main to hoon king are the songs I do not have anything to say about. I still cannot decide what to write about them other than suggesting you to simply leave them.

All and all, Yeh Sunday Kyun Aata Hai is an album that is almost a decade late from its time. If you get your hand on the album, simply go for one song: Rang Dharti ke liye, and choose the female version first.

Tags: Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kumar Sanu, Music Review, Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan