The film's choreography required performer Aamir Khan to spin about 60 times in a minute[10][20] at an elevation of 80 feet.[10][20] As a result, Khan suffered from nausea during the filming and had to be put on medication to combat the sensation.[10][20][21] Los Angeles based airbrush artist Adam Tenenbaum applied Khan's intricate, tattoo-like body paint for the shoot.[22][23] Katrina Kaif's part was choreographed by Shampa Gopikrishna; her sequences took 11 days to shoot.[24]
The music video starts with a picture of Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif. The shot then moves to center around the logo of the song in front of a platform in the shape of Star of David or Star of Goloka[26] decorated with lights. Credits then display the names of the singers, Siddharth Mahadevan and Shilpa, that of the composer, Pritam, and lastly those of the contributing lyricist Sameer Anjaan.
The performance stage is lighted with small green, yellow and crimson coloured spotlights dotting the black background both horizontally and above the platform. The front of the stage is occupied by a water-body,[clarification needed] semi-circular structures on two sides flanking the star shaped one in the middle, which holds the performers. An acrobat and a gymnast are at the front of the stage, along with others who are sitting on both sides of the water-body.[clarification needed] While Sahir (portrayed by Aamir Khan in the film and music video) is shirtless and in black, Aliya (portrayed on screen by actress Katrina Kaif) wears a white outfit. Sahir enters the stage performing a front somersault while the stage lights up with pyrotechnics. Taking hold of an aerial silk, he glides once over the top of the audience whilst holding a torch with his free hand. Aliya enters the stage from above sitting on an aerial hoop while Sahir dances below, followed by both of them dancing together as well as performing aerobatic stunts in mid air with the support of aerial hoops and aerial silk rigged above. The rest of the video consists of pictures of Sahir and Aliya with the lyrics below, interspersed with a few scenes from the film. The video ends with Sahir throwing his bowler hat towards the screen, which leads to the logo of the film along with the film's release date.[b]
Critical reception
Both the film's soundtrack and the Malang single received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Critic Rajiv Vijayakar, reviewing the single for Bollywood Hungama, praised the song's Sufi influences and the "full-throated" singing.[31] Joginder Tuteja, reviewing for Rediff.com, described the song as a "love track with a good rhythm" but criticised it for having an uncanny resemblance to another track, titled Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, from a 2007 film of the same name that was also produced by Yash Raj Films.[32] Mohar Basu, reviewing for Koimoi.com, stated "this one is a Thumbs up!" acknowledging Rao's vocals, the grandeur of the music video, the lyrics, and the "sprinkling of Pre-modern Balkan music" that he detected in it.[33]
FIR filing
A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed against Yash Raj Films by the Madariyya Sufi community on grounds of "hurting their religious sentiments and defaming their tradition."[6][34]
^Nastaliq: ملنگ, MalaṉgIPA:[mələ̃ŋɡ]; The word Malang has several meaning, in several different regions, which are at times even contradictory to each other. Persia is considered the region of origin, while in Afghanistan it can be used to refer to magicians, beggars, sorcerers, and even holy men. Author Jonathan L. Lees book, The "Ancient Supremacy": Bukhara, Afghanistan and the Battle for Balkh, 1731-1901 describes malang as "a religious mystic, often with heterodox or extreme sufi tendencies; a shrine attendant".[1] The word's usage in the song is associated with the love of a nomadic nature, and thus "vagrant" has been used here.[2]
^The synopsis here is for the 4:46-long YouTube video[27] released by Yash Raj Films, featuring mostly lyrics. The makers of the film have decided against releasing the full video online, instead releasing only a 30-second promo with the promise that the full song is available only in theatres.[28][29] Due to similar footage the part-lyrical video has been used.[30]
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