The new music directors in movie town are young, ready to experiment and breaking into the big league
When director Anurag Kashyap wanted the rawness of a brass band in a song in Dev.D, 29-year-old composer Amit Trivedi got one straight into the studio and the result is the cult track, Emosanal atyachar. “The band had no idea about recordings or studios. We started at 6 pm and left at 3-4am the next day. I had to try different ways of getting my point across to them—writing notes, humming the tune, jamming with them just so they would feel the vibe. It was not the usual session,” he says. Suffice to say, Trivedi’s also not your usual musician. If youngsters pocketed Emosanal atyachar as their pop anthem and bonded over it on Facebook, the 17 other songs in the film showed a masterful command over a range of musical genres and announced the arrival of a rare talent. Kashyap calls the edgy, powerful soundtrack the “Bachchan” of his film; we are happy to second that.

We’re happier still to find that Trivedi is not the only young musician belting out a different sound in movie town. Listen to the rambunctious tracks of Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye and you’ll know how 25-year-old Sneha Khanwalkar gives folk music a contemporary, rakish energy in her soundtrack. Atif Aslam fans tripping on Doorie could get themselves acquainted with 27-year-old Sachin Gupta, who created the “Pakistani sound” for the album and also went on to make music for the popular Dil Kabaddi.

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