Parineeta

Director: Pradeep Sarkar
Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan, Raima Sen
Music Director: Shantanu Moitra
Singers: Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chuahan, Chitra, Rita Ganguly

Fresh talent fails to imbue freshness to the sound in this sweet but finally unproductive soundtrack. Of course it's a blessing to get an album where the sound is tonally textured to serenade softness. The tracks are subdued and shaded to offset the onslaught of noisy over-orchestrated babble-bouncers, which seem to please filmmakers and composers of today. Vinod Chopra's always likes to go for the skill. His music for Parinda, Kareeb and Mission Kashmir was pleasant soothing but not outstanding. Chopra's 1942 - A Love Story was every bit a musical landmark, one of the finest movie soundtracks of the 1990s. If you're searching for that old-world charm in the melodies design which made R.D. Burman's sounds in 1942 so special, then you'd perhaps like to stopover at Parineeta for a pert peep. But if you hope to hear what Arun Kumar Mukherjhee did with the old version of Parineeta or even Kalyanji-Anandji did in Sankoch (again based on Parineeta), then the sound of the music in the newest version of the Sarat Chandra classic seems so Halka, almost weightless in sound. While one could walk the wispy waltz with R.D. Burman's 'Ek Ladki Do Dekha' or 'Kuch Na Kaho' in 1942, efforts to recreate the nostalgia and grace from an era gone-by in Parineeta are largely sterile. Shreya Ghosal, though sweet-toned is no Lata Mangeshkar to carry an entire album on her frail shoulders. She and Sonu Nigam are in filigreed form in 'Piya Bole' (where you also get to hear Saif Ali Khan unbilled, oh lucky listeners!), 'Kasto Mazza' (superb use of the sound of a chugging locomotive) and 'Soona Man Ka Aangan'.

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