'Naav'-Udaan

I heard this song from Udaan very recently and am writing on it because a friend of mine requested me to. First of all, kudos! to Amit Trivedi for having grabbed the national award for music this year. He definitely deserved it. If one observes Amit Trivedi's style, he would realise when I say that Amit may use 'n' number of instruments in a song but his magic in bringing an Indian touch in every work of his because of the choice of vocalists. His vocalists are almost like they are picked from a flok group and thus he maintains what one calls the 'Indianness' in a song. 'Naav' is a very beautiful song which starts off in a very strange manner i.e, with a Harmonica( Mouth Organ). Then there's a very rhythmic groove that goes on upon which the lyrics are put. Hats off to the lyricist for having written such impeccable lyrics. One definitely sinks into this song primarily because of the lyrics. I consider myself nobody to be saying this but since it is my blog and it is an analysis, I want to play the role of a critic here. The aalaps that are sung in this song I feel have not been upto the mark. I think they can be sung much more melodiously. An example of an actual flaw in the aalaap is before the song pumps up i.e, during the groove, after the line 'Behti behti'...the aalaap doesnt even sound complete and its almost like its been fitted there with a great deal of difficulty. That aalaap was a major turn-off for me in this song. Otherwise, this song caters to the minds of the common multitude, in the sense, when it picks up tempo, there is still a very simple groove to it and there is not much complications in this song thus allowing everybody to appreciate it. The drumming is also very simple and this is probably the beauty of this song,SIMPLICITY'.Another turn off that I experienced in the song is the use of random piano notes in between lines which dont even fall in scale. I think it kills the beauty of the song to an extent. The intelligence of this man is proven at the end of the song. Naav, because of its very simple tune can have a lot of harmonics and seconds and fifths added to it in the vocals and one would expect to hear it at some point or the other in the song. But Amit keeps the audience waiting and introduces the harmonics at the absolute last line of the song and ends it there leaving the audience asking for more. That I felt was extremely innovative on his part. All in all, I love listening to this song because of the very groovy touch it has and the beautiful lyrics i get to listen to. Not to forget, the folk like voice which I totally adore.