Sunidhi Chauhan sings it with just the right cadence, humming the opening lines softly than going full throttle, exercising her vocal cords to the extreme. The album opens with Just go to hell dil, which is basically about picking up the pieces and moving on. And composer Amit Trivedi and lyricist Kausar Munir have been bang on target with the brief. The film required music that reflected both the effervescence of youth as also heartbreak. The film revolves around a young girl’s quest to sort out her life and how a mentor helps her zero in on her choices. “Dear Zindagi” might not be a love letter to life it was intended to be, but Bhatt and Khan make this one worth watching.Amit Trivedi has taken over the reins to create music for the Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt starrer Dear Zindagi. The focus is entirely on her and she doesn’t shy away, facing even tough scenes with a natural confidence and maturity that belies her age. The highlight of the film is Alia Bhatt, who pulls off her second brilliant performance of the year after “Udta Punjab”. The need to explain every moment and articulate every emotion pulls down “Dear Zindagi” even the brilliant chemistry between the two leads cannot salvage the film from this fatal flaw. In a telling scene, Kaira and her friends tell each other “Hamein apni baatein record karni chahiye” (we should record our conversations) because they are so taken with how brilliant their conversations are. Shinde gives us many poignant moments between the two, but she also feels the need to punctuate the narrative with punch lines, which ends up making the whole narrative ring false. Khan is effortlessly charming in his role, channeling his “Chak De” persona – a father figure who is silently rooting for his young charge as she negotiates rough waters. A chance meeting with Jehangir “Jug” Khan, a psychologist who, by his own admission, doesn’t always play by rules, prompts Kaira to seek therapy.
She moves to her parent’s house in Goa and all her pent-up angst comes to the surface again. When her landlord asks her to vacate her apartment, she moans to her friend, “I am going to be homeless in this city” - completely trivialising what being homeless really means. She flits from one relationship to the other, is rude to everyone around her, and can barely look beyond herself. Kaira is a young cinematographer who always seems to be on edge.
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