Alvida from Life in a…Metro

Time to write about a happening song or better “destined-to-be-happening” from a latest flick. 🙂

Music by Pritam, the track Alvida from Life in a…Metro seems to be composed to match up to the flavor of the season – Rock-based tunes. Considering the hugely popular Gangster from the same team of Anurag Basu and Pritam, this album carries some expectation of delivering good music again (plagiarized or otherwise 😉 )

I feel that Alvida has a slight resemblance to Bheegi Bheegi from Gangster and Chal chale from Woh lamhe. The song has two versions – Alvida and Alvida (reprise) sung by KK and Bangladeshi pop singer, James, respectively. My personal choice is KK’s version. The song starts off softly and builds up gradually. I prefer the beginning as the song gets bit noisy with heavy guitar interlude towards the end. Compared to KK one, James’s version is more vehement right from the beginning.

This song got good reviews; KK too got lotsa praises like this one:

KK shows his finesse once again and maintains his successful teamwork with Pritam in churning out the principal track of the film. The singer’s vocals change its tempo as the depressed feelings are highlighted with fast paced hard rock feel.

This song is about lost love; the unwilling acceptance of a forsaken lover and questions which arise in his mind as to why his beloved left him. Ardent singing by both the singers lives up to the demands of the lyrics by Amitabh Verma, which brings out impressively the pathos of a jilted lover and disbelief that his lover is no longer in his life.

Chupke se kahin, dheeme paaun se
jaane kis tarah, kis ghadi
aage badh gaye, humse raahon mein
par tum toh abhi thi yahin
kuch bhi na suna, kab ka tha gila
kaise keh diya alvida

As of now, I’ve heard this song only properly from the whole album, I’m sure there must be other good numbers worth repeated listening.

Not providing the download link of the song here. I’m quite amazed by the number of blogs with download links, even for the latest song without any concern of copyright issues. You can listen it here or here and decide the album is worth buying or not.

Here’s a short promo video of the song from Youtube (will update when a longer one comes up)

Read on for the full lyrics of Alvida ….

And this is to save time for those who came looking for lyrics 😀

Chupke se kahin, dheeme paaun se
jaane kis tarah, kis ghadi
aage badh gaye, humse raahon mein
par tum toh abhi thi yahin
kuch bhi na suna, kab ka tha gila
kaise keh diya alvida

Jinke darmiya gujri thi abhi
kal tak yeh meri zindagi
dono baahon ko, thandi chaanv ko
hum bhi kar chale alvida

Alvida, alvida, meri raahein alvida
meri saansein kehati hai, alvida
alvida, alvida, ab kehna aur kya
jab tune keh diya, alvida

Sunle bekhabar, yuun aankhein pher kar aaj tu chali jaa
dhundegi nazar humko hi magar har jagah
aisi raaton mein leke karvate, yaad hamein karna
aur phir haar kar kehna kyun magar, keh diya alvida alvida
koi puchhe toh zara, kya socha aur kaha alvida
alvida, alvida, ab kehna aur kya
jab tune keh diya, alvida

Hum the dil jale, phir bhi dil kahe
kaash mere sang aaj hote tum agar, hoti har dagar gulsitaa
tumse hai khafa, hum naaraaz hai, dil hai pareshaan
socha na suna tune kyun bhala keh diya alvida alvida
koi puchhe toh zara, kya socha aur kaha alvida
alvida, alvida, ab kehna aur kya
jab tune keh diya, alvida

kyun socha aur kahan alvida

dono baahon ko, thandi chaanv ko
hum bhi kar chale alvida