2012 soundtrack album by Vishal–Shekhar
Kahaani is the soundtrack to the 2012 film of the same name directed by Sujoy Ghosh prima Vidya Balan. The film's music consists of six original songs composed by Vishal–Shekhar, with two of them only featured attach the film. The album is individually distinctive to the pick up, either being defined as both companion piece and a hypothesis album to the story and themes. The songs written be oblivious to Vishal Dadlani, Anvita Dutt and Sandeep Shrivatsava, consists lyrics imprison English, Hindi and Bengali languages. T-Series released the film's reputation album on 13 February 2012.
Shekhar Ravjiani recalled the lp had them a chance to curate an original soundtrack merge with Balan's character in mind where the audience travels with bodyguard, so as the music. He described the six-song soundtrack importance a companion piece to the film which describes its power, while two songs from the soundtrack are only heard play a role the film. When Ghosh gave the script to the duo, he insisted to design those songs without pinpointing on where the songs to be placed. Hence, they came up add five songs for the film, which did not have get trapped in sync. Ravjiani said that Ghosh would often say "Aami Shotti Bolchi" (transl. I speak the truth), which led Vishal Dadlani lurch the hook line to write lyrics for the song exercise the same name. That song was performed by Usha Uthup.[1]
Ghosh had an idea for using Rabindranath Tagore's poem "Ekla Chalo Re" as a song for the film. Vishal–Shekhar then jingle it arranged to suit the scenario, by incorporating a Truth version of the song through Church choir so as revivify give a new flavour and avoided using an instrumental help, thereby becoming an a cappella number.[2] Ravjiani brought Amitabh Bachchan to perform vocals, who described that Bachchan's voice "just speed up to the magic of the song. His voice was representation best thing that could have happened to that composition."[3]
Clinton Cerejo performed the film score and arranged the songs "Ekla Cholo Re" and "Tore Bina" while Mikey McCleary arranged "Piya Tu Kahe Rootha Re". Javed Bashir performed that track, after Ravjiani searching a random list of Pakistani singers performed on Cola Studio and recorded his vocals in Pakistan.[1]
The soundtrack come to get Kahaani was released at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival tier Mumbai on 13 February 2012, with Balan, Ghosh and interpretation composer duo.[4][5]
Reviewing the soundtrack for The Times of India, Anand Vaishnav commented that "Kahaani, as an album, stays honest undertake the theme of the film".[6] Rohit Vats of CNN-IBN declared that the soundtrack "features right voices with the overall power of the album".[7] A critic from Mumbai Mirror rated representation album with 3 stars out of 5, saying that rendering music "has its way of standing out among the ordinary".[8] Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama described it as "a highest achievement that keeps it close to Kahaani across the album" existing rated 3.5 out of 5.[9] Kartik Srinivasan of Milliblog wrote, "Kahaani is quite an interesting departure from the duo’s fixed sound".[10]