Music Review: Thugs of Hindostan (Hindi)
Composer(s): Ajay-Atul
Listen to the songs online here: Saavn
With Thugs of Hindostan (and the upcoming Zero), Gogavale brothers Ajay and Atul are finally getting the mainstream attention they deserve. Yet for all the wizardry in arrangements that they seem to possess in abundance, Thugs... fails to produce a single standout. Nor does it seem to evoke a genuine sense of time and place. (The film is set in the early 19th century.) If the Balochi-inspired Vashmalle is appositely celebratory, Suraiyya, a jazz-laced folk fusion, is an upgraded Chikni Chameli sung with verve by Shreya Ghoshal and Vishal Dadlani. Manzoor-e-Khuda wraps the short three-track soundtrack on a rousing note, the strings-heavy number culminating in a frenzied percussive crescendo of sorts. Thugs of Hindostan, its orchestral grandeur aside, has little else going for it. But as an album designed to mark key moments in the narrative, reflecting the movie's themes, it does its job fairly well.
Listen to the songs online here: Saavn
With Thugs of Hindostan (and the upcoming Zero), Gogavale brothers Ajay and Atul are finally getting the mainstream attention they deserve. Yet for all the wizardry in arrangements that they seem to possess in abundance, Thugs... fails to produce a single standout. Nor does it seem to evoke a genuine sense of time and place. (The film is set in the early 19th century.) If the Balochi-inspired Vashmalle is appositely celebratory, Suraiyya, a jazz-laced folk fusion, is an upgraded Chikni Chameli sung with verve by Shreya Ghoshal and Vishal Dadlani. Manzoor-e-Khuda wraps the short three-track soundtrack on a rousing note, the strings-heavy number culminating in a frenzied percussive crescendo of sorts. Thugs of Hindostan, its orchestral grandeur aside, has little else going for it. But as an album designed to mark key moments in the narrative, reflecting the movie's themes, it does its job fairly well.
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