Saturday 19 April 2014

Hitting the Rustic Notes

Ek Hazarachi Note offers music that is rustic in feel yet contemporary in its treatment

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Rustic music with contemporary treatment is how one can describe the music of the upcoming Marathi film Ek Hazarachi Note. The music of the film consisting of five songs composed by National Award winner Shailendra Barve was launched in Pune on April 16.

According to Barve, the music plays supportive role to the script by maintaining mood and the feel of the story that captures the lifestyle of the rural folks. “The compositions have flavors from the tribal and folk music. It helps to represent the rural scenario,” said Barve, who won the national award for Sanhita in 2012.

Music of the film was launched by veteran actor Usha Naik who is also the plays lead character Budhi in the film. Singers Aarti Ankalikar Tikekar, Neha Rajpal, Vivek Naik were also present on the occasion along with debutant director and producer Shrihari Sathe.

The songs are penned by Shrikant Bojewar who has also written the story of the film. Budhi’s theme song, sung by Neha Rajpal, is a fantasy of Budhi which represents happiness and sadness of the character. Song named Krishna teeri is a traditional ovi, veteran classical singer Aarti Ankalikar Tikekar has sung its female version while Amol Bavdekar has lend his voice to the male version.
From Left to RightVivek Naik,Neha Rajpal, Aarti Anklikar-Tikekar,Usha Naik,Shailendra Barve Directer and Producer Shrihari Sathe

“Besides knowing that lyrics of the song are woman specific, we used male version of the ovi just to trigger the emotions through it,” explained Sathe at the music launch.

The story of the film has parallel political track and to describe this scenario song named Dennare-Dennare is added in the movie. It is used as a theme song in the film. Apart from this, a traditional song Dhondi-Dhondi Pani De is also included in the film with new lyrics and different music treatment.     


Ek Hazarachi Note will heat the theatres on May 9 across Maharashtra.  


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1 comments:

I agree with you. The film music does have rustic feel to it. Feel like you in village enjoying the evening breeze far away from sounds of city. Beautiful songs in the film. Great job!

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