After profiling seedy bars (in
Chandni Bar), scheming politics (
Satta), high society parties (
Page 3) and the business circus (
Corporate), Madhur Bhandarkar now eyes the
Traffic Signal.
With an eclectic cast of Kunal Khemu, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neetu Chandra, Ranvir Shorey, the drama is about the criminal underbelly that thrives on the streets of Mumbai.
Music director Shamir Tandon, who worked with Bhandarkar on
Page 3 and
Corporate, strikes again.
The soundtrack begins with a thematic piece by Raju Singh, titled
The Spirit of Traffic Signal. Here's what happens. Instead of sounding sinister and thrilling, it starts out as a lame inspiration of A R Rahman's zesty instrumental,
Spirit of Rangeela and then breaks into a jarring jig of electronic instruments.
Lazily rendered by Hariharan and Sangeet Haldipur and indifferently composed,
Yeh zindagi hai to kya zindagi hai tries to adopt the abstract way. Now that's a genre director-composer
Vishal Bhardwaj is a master of, but Tandon doesn't quite get it right. Another version of the song in
the voice of Bhupinder (good to hear him) doesn't lift