|
Producer: Ramesh Sippy Director: Milan Luthria Cast: John Abraham, Nana Patekar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sameera Reddy Music: Vishal Shekhar Singers: Shekhar Ravjiani, Shaan, Bappi Lahiri, Merriene, Nisha, Vishal Dadlani, Kay Kay, Sunidhi Chauhan, Adnan Sami, Harshdeep Kaur, Kunal Ganjawala
A Ramesh Sippy production, ‘Taxi No. 9211’ (read Taxi No Nau Do Gyarah) is directed by Milan Luthria of ‘Kachche Dhaage’, ‘Chori Chori’ and ‘Deewaar’ fame. The film has in the lead Nana Patekar and John Abraham playing their wild chase to meet a deadline at the end of the day. Playing their love life are Sonali Kulkarni and Sameera Reddy respectively. The music is by Vishal-Shekhar one of the top composers of today and the lyrics are by Dev Kohli and Vishal. Returning back to scene and singing for the first time is Bappi Lahiri on some else’s composition in the song titled ‘Boom-bai Nagariya’ narrating about his love for Mumbai. The lyrics are by Vishal and he manages quite catchy lyrics for the song. The first version of the track comes up as ‘Living in the City’ that has some dialogue inputs by Nana Patekar and John Abraham. The cadence flows throughout the track with the merge of Indian and western music. As of now the people of Mumbai are going to lap up the track well. Another version of the track is the ‘Club Mix’ a much-loaded track by Guru Sharma to charge you all over again. Get a good dosage of hip-hop and pop music with ‘Ek Nazar Mein Bhi’. With peppy music and good melody, the song also gets the advantage of K.K and Sunidhi Chauhan who are doing very well with their career over the years. The lyrics are pen poured once again by Vishal. Just go jiggy with it! Adnan Sami after some memorable songs for ‘Lucky’ returns back to mike again for ‘Meter Down’. The number is to feature for the publicity of the film, and from what we here with this we can say that the filmmaker is on with his right choice of things. The track is very impressive with the goodness of Adnan’s style and jazz music. Another song penned by Vishal that once again impresses us. There is another version of the track as the ‘Rock'N'Roll Mix’ remixed by Guru Sharma with quality music and top notch beats. The peppy gear of the album stops here with the beginning of some thoughtful numbers penned by Dev Kohli. Begins the situational track ‘Aazmale Aazmale’ sung by composer Shekhar. He does a good job and the song appears good enough.
Starts the soulful track ‘Bekhudi’ by Shaan with a musical piece at the beginning earmarking it. Another situational track that has musical value and will bring pleasure to you. The lyrics, signing and composing everything sounds good. The best of the album! The album comes to a close with the inspiring and lively ‘Udne Do’ sung in the voice of Kunal Ganjawala and a cameo by Harshdeep. He lends the right touch to the track sounding loaded with western feel while Harshdeep sounds dreamy and lovely. Very much like Ramesh Sippy’s last ‘Bluffmaster’ this too tread the unconventional route. And seeing the success that the former film has received we can be pretty optimistic about this too. Throughout you get entertainment and enjoy the outing and this matters the most. In spite of the situational numbers, you don’t miss out on the pep factor!
|