Hindi action films rarely have good soundtracks. The song list for the March 6 release Baaghi 3 , starring Tiger Shroff , comprises tunes...
Hindi action films rarely have good soundtracks. The song list for the March 6 release Baaghi 3, starring Tiger Shroff, comprises tunes taken from other sources. One of the songs is Dus Bahane, which was the title track of a 2005 action movie with a most forward-looking soundtrack. For Dus, directed by Anubhav Sinha, composers Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani infuse electronica, rock, and metal across an hour-long record that is a bit like a five-course thaali – there is something for everyone.
Apart from the timeless Dus Bahane, Saamne Aati Ho and Jaaniya Ve make for great cafe and lounge music. At least for this writer, who was a teenager in 2005, Adrenaline Nitrate was a gateway to hard-edged 1990s electronic artists such as The Prodigy, Bjork and The Chemical Brothers.
Dus Bahane was released at a time when electronic sampling and digital production were changing Bollywood music. Some of Vishal-Shekhar’s work in this period had an anything-goes vibe not matched by their peers, including Pritam and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, and is comparable only to Amit Trivedi’s clutter-breaking work in the first half of the 2010s. Door Se Paas from Musafir (2004) and Tinka Tinka from Karam (2005) still sound more fresh than a great deal of current Bollywood music.
Dus Bahane is no different. It’s not just a great tune – its rhythm track, comprising claps, drums, and dholaks, contains Vishal-Shekhar’s ingenuity. Dadlani once aptly described...
