🎵 Put the Barfi songs on during a drive and had to slow down

Put the Barfi soundtrack on during a long drive last week. I hadn't heard the whole thing in years. Somewhere around the 3rd track I realised I'd slowed down to 50 on a road meant for 70. A car behind me honked and I didn't even mind. The music had me. I first saw that film in a theatre, and I remember not wanting to leave my seat after. Lots of the film has no dialogue. The music has to do the talking, and it does. Pritam wrote the songs, but what I keep coming back to is the quiet parts in between. A few notes and you know exactly what the scene needs from you. Compare that with a lot of new films, where the background music sounds like a screensaver. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic, I know that. I was in a different place in life when I watched it. But last month my cousin, 19 years old, heard a track on a random playlist. She asked me what film it was from. She'd never seen it, never heard of the story. So it's not only me, I think. Or she has good taste. Both are possible. Which film score still gets you years later? Doesn't have to be a famous one. Mine for the drive is now a playlist of 12 songs, and the same 3 keep repeating. I'll listen to the full thing again on the way to work tomorrow, with the windows up. Might slow down again on that road. Sorry in advance to whoever is behind me.

I'd push back a little. Some of this might be memory. We watched Barfi at an age when everything felt bigger. Play it for someone who first heard it last week and see if they sit still for it. The tunes are good, I'm not arguing that. I just can't separate them from my old college bus rides. Your cousin story is the best evidence in the thread, I'll give you that.

I did the same test once. Played a Barfi track in the car for a coworker who'd never seen the film.

Barfi gets all the love, but my pick from the same composer is the Jab We Met album.

I tried watching it once on a long flight with the dialogue turned right down. I still followed every scene, which says a lot about how much the music carries. Most new films hand me a humming background and call it a score. I can't hum a single tune from the last 3 I watched, but I can hum 5 from this one.