Team FC
What tugs at me about Chandni isn't the wedding songs or Switzerland. It was the background score that forms the soul of the film – changing texture as it's interpreted from a saxophone, in happier bubblier times, to the santoor, when love feels pure like rain, and eventually the violin, where the music sounds like what a torn heart must.
The true Yash Chopra sleight of hand was when they took that tune, with all its hopes and tragedies, and set Lamhe's main song to it – 'Kabhi Main Kahoon'.
Even the final scene of the film that brings the couple together is laced with resignation, a kind of broken acceptance that's an unusual mood for the start of a new, long-longed for relationship. By the time we were done with the film, our hearts were heavy in ways we couldn't describe.
This tune, its tragedy, the passage of time, the ever-shifting ever-same desert, the many stories that it's witnessed – as the song says 'yeh mausam chale gaye toh, hum fariyaad karenge'.