Hate the pronunciations. Review on Water Songs

Others have praised the album. The music is definitely good quality. But I am here to write about something that I totally hated about it.

This refers to the song Vsiahnav Jan To. Some of you might know there are two'N's in Gujarati, as there are in Marathi. The first the usual N, pronounced with the tip of the tounge towards the front of the palate, as in Naina, etc. The other - let is write it as N: - is spoken with the tip of the tounge towards the end of the palate, near the throat.  There are no words that start with this letter. The Gujarati word for Three, tran:, has this letter at the end.

You have probably guessed where I am going with this. The pronunciations in the bhajan are totally wrong. The correct words are Vaishn:ava Jan To Tene Kahiye.

The male starts with pronouncing the fancy N everywhere. What is worse, Ten:e is a completely different word in Gujarati, and it does not gramatically fit with the rest of sentance. Then, he goes on to say "Peer Paraayee Jaan:e Re". It should be peed, not peer. Peed means pain. Peer has the same meaning in Gujarati as in Urdu, Saint(?).

The female then repeats. She spares us the wrong N in the first word, pronouncing Vaishn:ava Jan. But then decides she too needs anothe fancy N, saying Ten:e for Tene. She too says Peer for Peed and finally wraps up with saying Jaane Re instead of Jaan:e Re. What's the matter, you got tired of the fancy N?

And then the corus kicks in, saying Vaishnav Jan instead of Vaishnav Jan. And thats when I stop the song.

I haven't seen the film. Maybe the film justifies the wrong pronunciations. Maybe there are a bunch of Banarasis trying to learn Gandhiji's favorite bhajan. More likely, it is just an error. But it puts me off for sure.