‘Musician not given credit for Boom’s track’

The soundtrack of Boom, the Bollywood flick where underworld meets fashion industry, may have topped charts, but there’s trouble brewing.

Abhijit Pohankar, eminent classical instrumentalist and son of well-known vocalist Pandit Ajay Pohankar, has laid claim to the title track on the film as its co-composer. But his name is nowhere listed among the album credits. The album opens with Boom, with credits to Talvin Singh featuring Ila Arun, and ends with a remix version by Dat Guy.

‘‘I don’t know what happened. Talvinbhai is a great friend of mine,’’ says Pohankar. ‘‘I did the co-composition and played the keys on Boom while Talvin remixed them.’’

Pohankar even rattles off the date and venue of Boom’s birth: April 16 and 17, 2002, at Purple Haze Studio, Bandra. Producer Ayesha Shroff says she isn’t even aware of this. ‘‘All I know is that I commissioned Talvin and he did two tracks for me on the album,’’ she says.