It is different - but not different like some tomato ketchup where the difference cannot be described.
The music album of Taare Zameen Par is different because it doesn’t have the usual tired and clichéd duets and solos in which ‘Tera Deewana’ serenades ‘Meri Jaan-e-Mann’.
It doesn’t have that almost mandatory content free “item song” that tries desperately to entertain the public at the cost of coherence.
This album doesn’t have songs with such frantic tempo that it seems the songs are trying to run away from themselves or where the meaning of the words, if any, is crushed under the heavy boots of cacophony.