Dil Chahta Hai Soundtrack

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Jayson Beaster-Jones (Professor of Music, University of California, Merced, USA) Associate Professor Natalie Sarrazin (Suny Brockport USA)

Dil Chahta Hai Soundtrack

Jayson Beaster-Jones (Professor of Music, University of California, Merced, USA), Associate Professor Natalie Sarrazin (Suny Brockport USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
12 December 2024

Musicals; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: 33 1/3 South Asia

The 2001 buddy film Dil Chahta Hai (dir. Farhan Akhtar), had arguably the first rock soundtrack in Bollywood. The award-winning soundtrack is an entry point into the relationship between Bollywood film songs, Hindi language music, and the Indi-pop movement of the '80s and '90s.

Beaster-Jones draws from reviews by music critics and fans, industry interviews, and his own close analysis of the music and the film to trace the role of the Dil Chahta Hai soundtrack in transforming both the sound and production practices of Bollywood cinema in the new millennium. These songs emerged from the rock band and live performance aesthetic of writing trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Their collaborative compositional approach for this soundtracks and later soundtracks reveals the changing tastes of India’s urban youth audiences and how that taste fueled the rise of the rockstar narrative in Hindi films.

The music for this soundtrack was the second Bollywood soundtrack composed by the superstar trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (i.e. Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonsa), with lyrics penned by the inimitable Javed Akhtar. The songs from this soundtrack paved the way for the rock and EDM-oriented compositions of Hindi-language cinema that came to dominate the first decades of the 21st century, making Dil Chahta Hai among the most influential soundtracks in Indian cinematic history.

By: Jayson Beaster-Jones (Professor of Music University of California Merced USA)
Edited by: Associate Professor Natalie Sarrazin (Suny Brockport USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501388651
ISBN 10: 1501388657
Series: 33 1/3 South Asia
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 12 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Note about Translation and Transliteration Acknowledgements Part I: The Soundtrack 1. Dil Chahta Hai Contexts 2. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s Rock Band Aesthetic 3. The Rock Band Aesthetic in Dil Chahta Hai 4. Dil Chahta Hai’s Reception and Influence Part II: Interviews 5. Interview – Ehsaan Noorani (Composer, Musician) 6. Interview – Loy Mendonsa (Composer, Musician) 7. Interview – Vijay Benegal (Lead Mixing Engineer) 8. Interview – Michael Harvey (Composer) Personnel Works Cited Index

Jayson Beaster-Jones is Professor of Music in the Department of Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies at the University of California, Merced, USA. He is the author of Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song (2015), Music Commodities, Markets, and Values: Music as Merchandise (2016), and co-editor of Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity (2017).