Tum Hi Ho (You're the one)
Album: Part of the soundtrack of the movie Aashiqui 2
Genre: Hindi (romantic)
Release date: March, 2013
About the song: I've always been an open-minded person, especially about culture and music. I can understand and appreciate differences between them :) I'm not a huge fan of Indian movie, but I don't mind watching them from time to time. How I met this song however, was a different story.
I was flipping through TV channels and lingered for a bit on MBC Bollywood and then this commercial for a movie was played and that was the first time it hooked me.
Later that week I was listening to a song on my cousin's phone and was checking her track list, and there it was! From that point on, and for about three weeks now I've listened to the song multiple times and I'm glad I'm not bored of it yet :D
Tum Hi Ho is a romantic song talking about finding the one! It has a nice soothing melody and the guy's voice is good. Though I haven't seen the movie, but the song makes it more appealing to me, so maybe one day I will.
What interested me more is the fact that I found a couple of Arabic words in it ^_^ such as wajood (وجود meaning existence), naseeb (نصيب meaning destiny), and Aashiqui (عشيقي comes from the word A'shq عشق meaning passionate love). The last one here reminded me of an Arabic movie (طير انت) an Egyptian version of the movie Bedazzled. Anyway, at some part of the movie the guy, Baheeg, uses his final wish to become a mix of bravery, cool, kindness and romance, and he turns out to be an Indian guy :D In that part the actors attempted to make sounds resembling Hindi and the word Aashiqui was used and I never knew it was actually a word XD
Back to the song! The movie didn't have much time for publicity before its release and this song worked like a charm for good luck. It was released three weeks prior the movie and had 5 million views on You Tube within ten days. The song promoted the movie and was loved by many. It received awards like the Filmfare award for best male playback singer, Big star most entertaining song and song of the year in Zee-cine awards.
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