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Audio Review : Mumbai Salsa
Producer: Amita Bishnoi, Surendra Sharma, Bhagwanti Gabrani
Director: Manoj Tyagi
Cast: Linda Arsenio, Indraneel Sengupta, Dilip Thadeshwar, Manjari Phadnis, Vir Das, Neelam Chauhan, Ray Irani, Shahji
Alisha Chinoy
Music: Adnan Sami
Singers: Adnan Sami, Alisha Chinoy, Gayatri Ganjawala, Shaan, Shreya Ghosal, Kunal Ganjawala, Amit Kumar
Today’s film scenario is undergoing an immense modification as many big corporate houses are heading towards Bollywood. With corporate sectors meddling in film affairs there is bound to be some interesting experiment in the film’s content. ‘Mumbai Salsa’ is one such flick that rests on a nightclub or discotheque by the same name. This film is the debut directorial venture of Manoj Tyagi, the brain behind films like ‘Satta’, ‘Page 3’, ‘Apaharan’ and ‘Corporate’. Presented by Vikram Bhatt, this film boasts of a young creed of actors like Linda Arsenio, Indraneel Sengupta, Dilip Thadeshwar, Manjari Phadnis, Vir Das and Neelam Chauhan.Adnan Sami has been hooked in to compose for the soundtrack. Notably, the musician has failed to scale any greater heights as a music director in Bollywood. But he hopes to strike the pot of gold with this enterprise where he collaborates with Sameer for lyrics. But the end result is painful enough.The album unleashes with extremely suave and stylish title track ‘Mumbai Salsa’ or so the creators at least opines it to be. This track definitely vouches to be suave and sleek but falls flat much to the agony of its makers. In its attempt to rise above the ordinary, the song ends up wavering between average and plain bad. Crooned by debonair Alisha Chinoy and Adnan Sami, it neither jives nor electrifies. Even the solo version by Alisha is equally unimpressive.
‘Friday’, the next piece treads on a similar plane of facileness like the previous one. Buzzed out by Gayatri Ganjawala with all passion and poise, it has a good helping of western arrangements, English lyrics and urbanized rendition. But nevertheless it ends up as another run of the mill affair. Even the duet version for which Kunal Ganjawala pops in, meets with the same disastrous fate. A distasteful offering by Adnan Sami indeed!
The soundtrack gushes on with ‘Choti Si’ hummed by Adnan Sami. It moves in a painfully slow pace and unlike the last two tracks it has more humble setting and is devoid of western influence. Adnan is at his best in this poignant melody that will go down well with all who have been disheartened in love.
‘Akeli Zindagi’ is another melancholy number poured in by Shaan. Nevertheless, this soft rock situational number fails to live up to its potential. This is the kind of song that would better find its due as a background score.Next track ‘Pyar Se’ is a piece of retro music crooned out by Amit Kumar. But the song doesn’t have much scope and even an artiste like Amit Kumar cannot add much to it. Moreover while listening to this track we get a feeling that the singer was a bit too high while rendering for it. Another sad musical affair!The only remuneration in the entire soundtrack is the two-minute long 'Salsa' piece that comes in the end. Ingenious use of saxophone and drumbeats pump up its feel. This track is neatly glued to the basics and offers some really interesting music to shake our legs to.‘Mumbai Salsa’ turns out to be a sore affair in the end. With not a single good track to its credit, the music of this flick turns out to be a major turn off.
Director: Manoj Tyagi
Cast: Linda Arsenio, Indraneel Sengupta, Dilip Thadeshwar, Manjari Phadnis, Vir Das, Neelam Chauhan, Ray Irani, Shahji
Alisha Chinoy
Music: Adnan Sami
Singers: Adnan Sami, Alisha Chinoy, Gayatri Ganjawala, Shaan, Shreya Ghosal, Kunal Ganjawala, Amit Kumar
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‘Friday’, the next piece treads on a similar plane of facileness like the previous one. Buzzed out by Gayatri Ganjawala with all passion and poise, it has a good helping of western arrangements, English lyrics and urbanized rendition. But nevertheless it ends up as another run of the mill affair. Even the duet version for which Kunal Ganjawala pops in, meets with the same disastrous fate. A distasteful offering by Adnan Sami indeed!
The soundtrack gushes on with ‘Choti Si’ hummed by Adnan Sami. It moves in a painfully slow pace and unlike the last two tracks it has more humble setting and is devoid of western influence. Adnan is at his best in this poignant melody that will go down well with all who have been disheartened in love.
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