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BOOM Music Review
What happens when the fashion world meets the underworld? What happens when the
ramp queens of the likes of Padma Lakshmi, Madhu Sapre, Katrina Kaif with
veterans Zeenat Aman and, hold on, Bo Derek meet macho men like Big B, Jackie
Shroff, Jaaved Jaaferi and BAD MAN Gulshan Grover? What happens when Kaizad
Gustad, director of whacky Bombay Boys (starring Nasserruddin Shah), joins hands
with producer Ayesha Shroff and plans to put all this on the celluloid.
Whoosh !!! BOOM IS BORN !!!
This slick'n' stylised movie about the fashion world and the underworld has been
making the rounds of international circuit for some time now and soon is about
to be released in India. Music is certainly novel, at least for the Indian
audience as it is mainly a mix of performances from Indian and International
artistes. Though again, like the trend is these days, the musical score is
mainly inspired by the movie and at most, may just be a bit of background pieces
in the movie. Though some of the tracks in the movie are original sound tracks,
the majority are international tracks, which have been popular in the West for
some years. A few of such tracks are the bhangra pop tracks that are already
worldwide hits and are popular in the disc culture. More of this later...!!!
First things first. Boom is meant to be played at high volume. Such is the
intensity of the songs that they will sound best in a state-of-art music system.
Well so what do you like?
Bhangra Pop: It's there in abundance.
If you have ever been to a disc in recent times, you won't have missed 'Mundian
To Bach Ke' by Punjabi MC and 'Nachna Tere Naal' by Jay Sean and Juggy D.
Rocking numbers, they just force you to put on your dancing shoes and jump on
the floor. Ideal for party mood !! Another smashing track, which should be
extremely popular in just a few days from now, is 'I See You Baby' by Groove
Armada. It has to be listened to just once and you know that you are going to
play it more and more. Especially interesting in this Punjabi-Hindi-English
track is the crooning of 'Don't touch me mainu Baby' in a Punjabi accent. Now
this should bring the house down. A very good track.
A Rap and Reggae number: This too is there !!
'Nuttin Happen', a D'Caro number, is a Rap and Reggae track that should go well
with those who have grown with the Apache Indian (remember 'Chok There', a
number that thrilled the nation about 10 years back)
A seductive number: Well do not expect 'Raat Akeli Hai' or 'Aayo Na Paas Aayo'
stuff here. It's different here !!
So what we have is a Sandeep Chowta number, Seduction Savariya) which is sung by
his current favorite Sonu Kakkar (we all know about her 'Babuji Zara Dheere
Chalo') and Sunitha Parthasarthy. But instead of being harsh and on-the-face
kind, it is pretty smooth, especially the initial alaap by Sonu that is simply
mesmerizing. Sunitha impresses with the English part of the song assigned to
her.
A Sufi number: By now you must be thinking that the album is a mix of
everything. Well, hold on !! there is more to come !!
Zindabad, composed by Talvin Singh and sung by Ravi Singh is a song about love
and is sung in a 'sufiana andaaz'. One of those rare numbers in the movie, which
are purely in Hindi.
Instrumentals: Now this is what we call complete paisa-vasool !!
As if the bhangra tracks were not enough as the dance tracks, we also have a few
instrumentals that are enough to rock a late night party. Purely techno and
rocking, tracks like 'Dope the Pope' (composed by Sandeep Chowta and sung -
though just in the background - by Sukhwindra Singh and Sowmya Roah), Punjabi
5-0 (Dum Dum), Ramp-Age (Sandeep Chowta, Sowmya Roah), Two Dons and a Bitch (Sandeep
Chowta), It's Safe (D'Caro) and Bhavani Dayani (Jez Humble) are pretty exciting,
though applicable only when the party is in full swing.
The title track: How can we miss that if it is a Hindi movie?
Boom, the title track by Talvin Singh, is a haunting track by Ila Arun that
features in two versions - Basic and the Day Guy remix. A situational track that
should appear as a background track or when the titles role, it can qualify as
the Indian version of Enigma. A very slow and disturbingly haunting track, it
showcases the versatility of Ila Arun.
A mandatory song'n'dance number around the trees and croons of 'Pyaar, Ishq aur
Mohabbat'
Well, you must be kidding as in a movie like Boom, there cannot be a place for
such a track !!
Boom is mainly centered at the hip-hop crowd, which wants to have some fun at a
pub or a disc and dance to some whacky music. Try playing Boom at home and your
granny may just stare at you annoyingly. But gift it to a 20 something guy and
he may just say a big THANK U.
It is By, Of and For - - - WHO DARE !! |
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