{"product_id":"dil-chahta-hai-soundtrack-9781501388668","title":"DIL Chahta Hai Soundtrack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e2001 buddy film \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDil Chahta Hai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (dir. Farhan Akhtar), had \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003earguably 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeaster-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 \u003ci\u003eDil Chahta Hai \u003c\/i\u003esoundtrack 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eDil Chahta Hai\u003c\/i\u003e among the most influential soundtracks in Indian cinematic history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJayson Beaster-Jones \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eBollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), \u003ci\u003eMusic Commodities, Markets, and Values: Music as Merchandise\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMusic in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50867594559762,"sku":"9781501388668","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77803d99-1a66-4137-a0f0-ad1555bf8268.jpg?v=1737699132","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dil-chahta-hai-soundtrack-9781501388668","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}