Shahrukh Khan's "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" Movie

The soundtrack of Jab Tak Hai Jaan starts with Challa, a song that has elicited an array of reactions ever since its video released online two weeks ago.

Keeping aside the jarring visuals of Shah Rukh Khan clumsily strumming your guitar, the song - a simplistic acoustic rock track - doesn’t disappoint. It might not come across as a typical, grand AR Rahman production, but singer Rabbi nails it together with his distinctive vocals.

Saans doesn’t fit in with this era at all. Save for that grand orchestral instrumentation, the tardy love ballad, which still appears to be stuck in the ’90s, doesn’t hold its very own.

Shreya Ghoshal’s extreme lilts on ‘saans mein teri..saaaaaans mili toh’ and also the obsolete dafli might get underneath the skin of the most patient listeners.

Thankfully, Saans (reprise) doesn’t torture just as much; the two-minute number features minimal instrumentation (the dafli remains though). Ishq Shava, sung by Canadian pop singer Raghav with Shilpa Rao, has fine percussions, Middle-Eastern style. Singer Harshdeep Kaur’s voice befits Heer, a melancholic Punjabi ballad.

Rahman experiments beautifully in Jiya Re, a song where singer Neeti Mohan makes her debut. The chorus cascades to some crescendo-like build-up, making the song probably the most memorable ones within the album.

The title track Jab Tak Hai Jaan might have been more hummable. Sung by Javed Ali and Shakthisree Gopalan, it alternates from a dreamy verse as well as an upbeat chorus. Individuals with a thing for percussions will love Ishq dance a catchy instrumental track. The soundtrack concludes having a sparse track featuring SRK reciting Jab Tak Hai Jaan, the poem.