MUSIC REVIEW: RACE is a mishmash
If you ask how the music for Abbas-Mustan's Race is, chances are you may not get a straight answer. Race, which stars Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Anil Kapoor and Sameera Reddy (whew), is set in modern-day South Africa against a horse-racing background. So the music in more ways than one reflects this fast-paced, on-the-edge life portrayed in the film.
Brought out by Tips Music, the album has two CDs, which comprise five randomly arranged songs, their lounge, Latino, disco versions and god knows what else. All in all there are 16 tracks (it took about two full hours to listen to the whole album) and at the end of the 16th, one is still not sure about how to react. Because you don't know what on earth has hit you.
The five originals – Race Saanson Mein, Zara Zara Touch Me, Pehli Nazar Mein, Dekho Nashe Mein, Mujhpe To Jaadu – are nothing much to write home about. But some of the background score sounds quite impressive by itself.
Then again Pakistani singer Atif Aslam delivers in Pehli Nazar Mein. After a lean period, Aslam makes his presence felt.
But eventually, every other track sounds like the previous one. So you are bombarded with a whole lot of techno effects, guitars and all the possible electronic instruments and sounds that somehow tend to put you off rather than draw you into them. Dhoom and Dhoom2 (incidentally both by Pritam) despite everything managed to make you sit up and notice. Race may not necessarily do that.
And the fact that these songs are so haphazardly arranged doesn't help it at all. Dus Kahaniyaan had a separate CDs for the lounge version and club mix version. In retrospect that made a lot of sense as against this one.
As part of academic curriculum, music falls under the realm of humanities. But somehow slowly but steadily contemporary music (film or otherwise) has been slowly moving towards the tech domain. And Race only goes to establish this fact.
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