Hindi cinema has always had songs of prostitutes in their movies since forever. The style, lyrics, videos may have changed but they are still pretty much there. Today, they refer to such stuff as item songs but the essence of it remains there.
There are some movies made on prostitutes and Umrao Jaan is the most popular such works. The original one had Rekha playing the character of Umrao Jaan while in the remake Aishwarya Rai played the role. It is a sad story. Both the movies hurt one's soul as we see the life of a girl and how she ends up in a brothel house. Shows how life can be so challenging for some people.
This song Salaam from the Aishwarya version has nice lyrics with soft vocals. Besides, Aishwarya looks nice in the gold attire and she is an ab fab dancer as we all know. I do get bothered by the deep neck line but what the heck she was playing the role of a prostitute at the end of the day so one can ignore that.
Abhishekh Bachchan looked quite awesome in this movie and it is quite visible from his short but strong presence in this song as well. I do wish to see him giving some hits now.
