Get out of this Jail

The music of Madhur Bhandarkar's latest will leave you feeling cheated.

Jail comes across as an album that lacks imagination, originality and effort. Moreover, there is hardly anything to listen to. A shame, considering Bhandarkar has often managed to get some great songs for his films.

First up, Jail officially marks the point when we should start complaining about an overdose and misuse of rock-guitar, albeit Bollywood style. This musical device first used effectively by Pritam, has been spawning clones, and Jail is one such unhappy example.

Sharib-Toshi, the reality TV finds, have managed to give us crowd pleasing music earlier. But this time, with only two songs to score, they have shamefully fallen back on formulaic music-making, which borrows heavily from both Pritam and Himesh Reshammiya [ Images ].

Saiyan Ve, is a hackneyed composition with distortion guitars and unimaginative lyrics, sung Himesh style and arranged Pritam style, with some electronic loops thrown in for the dance floor.

It even has a rock and a remix version, which features Neil Nitin Mukesh [ Images ] (backing vocals), who obviously fancies his own singing. In all the versions, Saiyan Ve will fool you with a catchy intro and glossy Bollywood-rock polish, but that's it. There is absolutely nothing new or attractive in this song.