Is there another Indian director whose films’ songs bear the stamp of his personality as much as Sanjay Leela Bhansali? Grand, personal productions full of baroque details, steeped in the tradition of Hindi film sangeet. Guzaarish (2011) Composer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali Lyricist: Turaz, Vibhu Puri Choosing it over Lootera, the other Vikramaditya Motwane film, wasn’t easy.
Udaan confirmed what Dev D (2009) had signalled: that in Trivedi and Bhattacharya we had found the most original composer-lyricist duo of this era.
The last track is an instrumental: the “Udaan Theme”, with its melancholy piano and violin, which is an example of Trivedi’s talent for theme pieces. And “Motu Master (Isski Maa Agar Isse), ‘the boarding-school song’, a batchmate is subjected to innocent bullying through inventive wordplay, guest starring a shayari by Anurag Kashyap. “Naav (Chadhti Lehre Laang Na Paye)” is exactly the kind of Indian folk-rock song you’d expect K Mohan to sing. Despite the ‘rock-band’ sound, it has an earthiness that’s tied to the immediate world of the protagonist, who grows up in Jamshedpur and writes poems in Hindi. The mint-fresh lyrics of “Geet (Kuchh Naya Toh Zaroor Hai)”, in which Amitabh Bhattacharya turns a song about a night out with friends into something beautiful: Jebo mein hum raatey liye ghooma kare, he writes ( We roam around with nights in our pockets). The overall sound of the album, that resembles that of a promising rock band from first year in college. In “Udaan (Nadi Mein Talab Hai)” and “Aazaadiyan (Pairon Ki Beriyan)” we have the earliest examples of what would become a Trivedi speciality: the indie spirited pop-rock anthem ending with well-earned crescendos, a dazzling sitar here, an electric guitar riff there. There is a term we sometimes like to use to describe a new breed of Hindi films: ‘Hindie’. The opening strains of “Kahaani (Aankhon Ke Pardo Mein)”, even before the guitars and the vocal harmonies have kicked in, sound like the awakening of a consciousness.
TOP 10 HINDI MOVIES 2012 FREE
The smell of youth is spread through the songs of Udaan: the story of a boy who broke free from his abusive father. Udaan (2010) Composer: Amit Trivedi Lyricist: Amitabh Bhattacharya Here are the 10 best albums of the 2010s, in the chronological order of their release.ġ. The Special Mentions at the end don’t include albums which didn’t make it to the main list, but that came up as references. For example, a cap of maximum two entries for Amit Trivedi, who pretty much dominated the first half of the ‘10s.
There were rules that needed to be set up - as all lists must. The list includes soundtracks that adhere to the more traditional idea of the Hindi film album, an approach that is falling out of fashion, or show a new way of doing it. Add to that, a creative bankruptcy in the music industry and a new, corrupted working system that has contributed to it. The gradual digital takeover that has happened in this decade has meant that the way music is produced, distributed and consumed is more singles-driven. Standing here, today, now, at the fag end of 2019, the idea of an album itself seems to be on shaky ground, with an uncertain future. The changing nature of Hindi film music has been one of the big trends of this decade. Or at least undergoing a great change - being redefined. It is about imagining how a song will be picturised in a film, before it has released and after you have seen it it is about lingering in its afterglow. All this is going away. The director’s contribution to a good album is sometimes almost as important as the composer and the lyricist. The singer’s association with the hero’s face. A Hindi film album even more so, where the visceral nature of music meets the visuals, glamour and format of Hindi cinema. An album is larger than the sum of its parts.
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