Others who were popular then were Jatin-Lalit, Nadeem-Shravan and Anand-Milind and there was a particular kind of music that they did. In the late ’90s, AR Rahman had just come out. Synchronicity has a ring to it.Įhsaan: The album had nothing that was familiar in terms of what was popular then. The music is one way of looking back, putting on your headphones and going into that zone. When you look back on those portions of your life, you’d love to relive them. Some of you may still be in touch or some may have gone to other parts of the world. It triggers some memories with your buddies. Loy: Whoever is watching the film or listening to the songs, it is a bit of a flashback for them. The music has gone into the audience’s system. Like slow poison it grew on people’s minds and our songs are still playing.
Anything fresh and pathbreaking is met with resistance at first. Many of the music companies who were used to hearing a particular type of sound said ‘oh, this does not sound like film music!’ But that is why we were brought in so that it does not sound like something you have heard before. Shankar: When we came out with the album, initially, the response was very lukewarm. Having composed the music ourselves, we have never been able to live up to that level. There has been no soundtrack like that since. There has not been a film like DCH since then. It was very new for the time and it still is. It’s like twenty years have passed and still no time has passed. It is amazing how fast time flies and still how fresh this film is.Įhsaan Noorani: Whenever we perform the music it sounds so new. Shankar Mahadevan: We remember everything so distinctly as if it was just yesterday that we composed all this music, the kind of energy we put together and had such a great time. Composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy revisit their ‘best work’ which also marked the trio’s arrival in the industry and share why the songs have grown on people.įirst thoughts on Dil Chahta Hai turning 20. Interestingly, the song album, which is now revered across generations of listeners and for the first time incorporated different elements of world music, received a lukewarm response from labels at the time of release. It was this song – which had the singer seemingly on a non-stop rendition of a nearly three-minute-long piece – that launched Shankar Mahadevan to singing stardom.Years have been kind to Dil Chahta Hai and it still remains one of the most revisited, comfort films of Hindi cinema. The title song of Shankar’s album Breathless (written by Javed Akhtar) came with a music video that was directed by Farhan and Zoya Akhtar. On a related note: Though Shankar Ehsaan Loy first worked with Farhan Akhtar for this movie, Shankar Mahadevan’s association with the director goes back to 1998. SEL complement the desolation with their melody and arrangement that sees a beautiful interplay of violins and flute (latter played by the brilliant Naveen Kumar).
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Like with Farhan Akhtar’s subsequent movies, Javed Akhtar penned the lyrics for this movie too, and the melancholy in this song situation is incredibly palpable through his words. Shankar Ehsaan Loy have made exceptional use of this skill on more than one occasion, and Tanhayee was one of the most memorable songs born thus. Dil Chahta Hai marked the start of a long association for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, not just with Farhan Akhtar (who debuted with this movie), but with the Akhtar family in general – the composers handled music for Farhan’s mother Honey Irani’s directorial debut Armaan, and for most of the movies directed by his sister Zoya Akhtar.īest Song Of Dil Chahta Hai: Few singers have the gift of delivering sad songs to such heart-rending effect as Sonu Nigam does. In addition to SEL’s songs, the movie also had a beautiful orchestral theme piece by Australian musician Mike Harvey. The trio’s refreshing music, while sticking to the movie’s youthful theme, incorporated a lot of world music elements. Apart from becoming the gold standard for urban films in Bollywood, Dil Chahta Hai also marked the true arrival of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy into the film composing scene. It is a testimony to the 2001 film’s cult status that this particular scene was the one that evoked loudest audience response where I was watching it. In the recent movie Chef, leading man Saif Ali Khan makes a brief reference to Dil Chahta Hai at one point.
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