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By Joginder Tuteja, January 8, 2004 - 15:29 IST
Manisha Koirala joins the brigade of Bollywood stars plunging into film production. Her first maiden venture doesn't fall back on any male heroes and instead ropes in Sushmita Sen to play the other lead role. Paisa Vasool is written and directed by d?tante Srnivas Bhashyam. Apart from Manisha and Sushmita, there is no other big name in Paisa Vasool that has music by Bapi-Tutul and lyrics by Sandeep Nath. A comedy thriller, it is expected to hit the theatres early next year.
Paisa Vasool is the burning example of the sorry state of the Hindi music industry! If churning out remixes after remixes for private albums was not enough, now even certain Hindi films too are resorting to including the oldies remixes in the music albums just to cash in on to their popularity! So after music album of recently released 'Samay' included remix of 'Jab Andhera Hota Hai', Paisa Vasool too has such remixes. One is the 'Helen Dance Mix' that has 2-3 old goldies packaged and remixed in a single track. Swastika, who has been the voice behind all the popular remixes this year (Kaanta Laga, Chadti Jawani and more) croons for this track in company of Vivek Mushran (?) and Pandit Sukhdev Chaturvedi. Credits are also given to Jayanta Pathak who 'produces and remixes' this one. Nothing great about this mix'n'mismatch! Give us the golden classics any time!
Yet another remix which is not a part of the movie but is still a part of the music album is 'Sabse Bada Rupaiyya' sung by Jojo and remixed by DJ Na'Ryan Beck. Nope, it is loud, it is unimpressive and we are just not interested! Also in the fray is Leslie Lewis' remixed 'Hai Re Hai Tera Goonghta'. Sung by Kunal Ganjawala and Sowmya Raoh, it makes up for some other unexciting tracks that form the major part of 'Paisa Vasool'. In fact, it turns out to be the best part about 'Paisa Vasool'.
'Saiyan Se Ki Demand' marks the re-entry of Ila Arun in the Bollywood music scene. Yes, the number is typically Ila Arun with her trademark rugged vocals and the lyrics sticking to the roots. But would you be really interested in singing yourself or hearing your toddler singing to the deadly trio of 'khatiya, takiya, and saiyaan'? Don't think so.
Title song is a possible follow up to 'Hai Paisa Ye Paisa' from the musical 'Karz'. Don't even think of comparing the goldie to some inane cries of 'I Hate Paisa, I Love Paisa, Ye Kaisa Kaisa....!', you may just faint. Sunidhi Chauhan, who recently shone bright in Chameli does her best but then lyrics that start with 'Bhaagte Bhoot Ki Langoti Nahi Maangta' (Yes, you heard it right. Even we couldn't believe when we heard this first !!) do not help her cause much. New find Hamza Faruqui does the male version of this track and does a decent job.
Vasundhara Das shines in 'Bindaas', a number picturised on the lead 'heroes' of the movie - Manisha and Sushmita. A foot tapping number, it is set to good tunes by Bapi-Tutul but may just not be heard much due to poor publicity so far. Shankar Mahadevan does well as a singer in 'Rukte Chalte', a sad and slow number in this otherwise noisy album. 'Yaadon Mein' is the sole romantic track in this album and is sung by Shreya Goshal and Shaan. It is surprising to see that in spite of the presence of two talented singers at the helm, the song just fails to rise and doesn't go anywhere!
Barring a number or two, which are fair, there is not much element of 'paisa vasooli' in this uninspiring album which doesn't stand much chance in any circuit. Poor publicity of the music doesn't help its cause much either.
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