Click to play videoMumbai: Gone are the days when one music composer used to churn out a whole film album. The latest trend that the film industry is following is gathering different composers as per their strengths to record a song and then fitting them into one film album.
This is exactly what the Bhatts have done in their forthcoming film Awarapan, with not one or two but several different composers from Pakistan contributing to the album.
"I think the time has come where a film need not have music from any one source or one composer. I think if one makes a decent track that fits in, we should pick it up,” said producer Mukesh Bhatt.
In the recently released Shootout at Lokhandwala, each track has been composed by a different pop artist, or a band.
One of the songs, the rap number titled Oye Ganpat has particularly caught on, and it's composer and singer Mika is quick to label usual filmy music as dated.
“The established composers have way too much work from too many producers and therefore, have become incompetent in terms of delivering quality music,” said Mika.
The trend is also true for Anurag Basu's Life in a … Metro, in which the music was composed by a band as opposed to one single music composer.
While it is too early to say that established individual composers are on their way out, the success of innovative music is definitely on an upswing.
(With inputs from Urmi Sahni)
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