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 !!