Shankar Mahadevan’s commanding voice, Ehsaan Noorani’s guitar riffs and Loy Mendonsa’s seamless keys are back together with Rakeysh Ompraka...
Shankar Mahadevan’s commanding voice, Ehsaan Noorani’s guitar riffs and Loy Mendonsa’s seamless keys are back together with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s boxing film Toofan, set for a July 16 release on Amazon Prime Video. In an interview with Scroll.in, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy revisit their 25-year career that began with the unreleased Dus (1997).
What should we look forward to in the ‘Toofan’ soundtrack?
Shankar: The title track has the adrenaline of a sports film song but is also an emotional rollercoaster. You can chart the transformation of the person in the song itself – it has a softness in the beginning and rises to a climax and takes off. Ananya, sung by Arijit Singh, has a very singer-songwriter kind of production. Purvaiya, sung by me, is like a rock qawwali.
You are one of the few composers to use Arijit Singh in interesting ways.
Loy: Shankar always says that when a composer, like say Arijit, sings a song, he has a different take on it. Often, Shankar sings out a tune to the singer, but then they are still struggling with it for three and a half hours. Greats like Shankar and Arijit make it sound easy.
Shankar: Arijit is not just a singer, he has tremendous musical...
