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By Joginder Tuteja, July 5, 2007 - 09:59 IST
Decades back when Amitabh Bachchan starrer Bombay To Goa was made, 'Dekha Na Hae Re Socha Na' became a chartbuster track that is still played on music channels. One doesn't expect anything remotely similar though from the namesake film that arrives this Friday.
With Laughter Challenge Finalists being the main leads of the film and a dozen odd comedy artists (mainly from the past) comprising of the cast, the film is anything but a musical. Still, one checks out this score by Nitin Shankar and Ravi Meet with lyrics by Shabbir Ahmed in hope of at least a tune or two that could be a good enough reason to sit through the album at least once.
There is a surprise in store at the very beginning as one sights the name of Bappi Lahiri on the credits for the opening track 'Bombay To Goa'. Another surprise comes immediately as one is hardly a minute into the song. Reason? 'Mukhda' of the track comes suspiciously close to Bappi's own 'Main Yaar Yaar' from the film Baal Brahmachari that was the launch pad of Puru Rajkumar.
Nevertheless if one leaves this comparison aside, this title song 'Bombay To Goa' turns out to be fairly decent hear and should go with the film's narrative. Another quick observation that one makes is that Bappi Lahiri is far more entertaining here than his 'Ek Lo Ek Muft' which was the only turn off in Rahman's soundtrack of Guru. Later in the album, female version of the song is heard with newcomer Shehla Burney coming behind the mike. She sings the track spiritedly and keeps the fun element intact.
On listening to the other tracks of the album, one realizes that Shehla has been used prominently as she sings a couple of songs more. After 'Ishq' being given names like 'kameena' and 'nikamma' and what not over the years, this time around it is named 'kamjaraf'! With Shabab Sabri as the co-singer, this heard-before-all-experienced sufi/western track fails to cut the ice and finds itself into the list of songs that are heard once, never played again and forgotten quickly.
After a 'lawani' track being heard in Traffic Signal, there is another one in Bombay To Goa that is simply titled 'Lawani'. A track that is obviously soaked in Marathi flavor, 'Lawani' has music by Ravi Meet with Sonu Kakkar behind the mike. For an item song aimed at the front benchers, it makes for a decent hear though its identification is primarily in the Maharashtrian belt. Nevertheless not a bad sounding song as it does offer some fun for its target audience. Sonu is good as she croons the track well and justifies the loud flavor of the track.
Shehla returns to the scene with 'Laaj Sharam' which is so very early 90s that once gets bored of it within 90 seconds of giving it a hear. Belonging to the era of films like 'Aaye Milan Ki Raat', 'Laal Duppatta Malmal Ka' and the likes, one can almost imagine an Anuradha Paudwal crooning it for the umpteenth time. Listless, boring and coming with a label of 'skip me on', one wonders if it's dragging pace would have made the sound recordists and the arrangers fall asleep while working on the song!
Ditto for 'Let's Enjoy' where singer Jubeen seems to be doing everything but enjoy his stint behind the mike! There is an attempt to spice this Nitin Shankar written song with some English lyrics and some supposedly funky background chorus effect but of no avail.
A track that seems to have been featured on the lead protagonists of the film, it hardly has anything to hum around and is yet another easy skip.
The only two numbers in the album that one can at least sit through are the title song and 'Lawani' but they too hardly are the kinds that make one buy the album. You certainly do not want to play it on in the shortest of your journeys, let alone be all the way from Bombay to Goa.
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