Sam Slater chats with mid-day about the music he composed for The Railway Men, his love for Sikkim’s tomato curry, and how honesty defines his compositions. Slater is known for his background scores in the OTT show Chernobyl and the movie Joker.Ask British composer Sam Slater what composing music for a film or series involves and he introduces us to the concept of a sound world. Slater, a two-time Grammy award winner who’s known for his background scores in the documentary Chernobyl and the movie Joker, says that coming up with a musical theme for a series involves “staying true to its history”.
26 November,2023 01:38 PM ISTSingers, rappers, and music composers Badshah, Amit Trivedi, Armaan Malik, Slow Cheetah, Nikita Gandhi held a press conferece ahead of the launch of the show Boombox. The artists talked about the show to the media.
28 February,2023 05:22 PM ISTMusic Composer Devi Sri Prasad talked about composing music tracks for Drishyam 2. He shared his experiences of working with lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya and many more. DSP has also composed music for Pushpa before
18 November,2022 01:35 PM ISTThe Bollywood composer embarks on a 3,000 km bicycle expedition along the banks of the Ganga and collaborates with musicians at different locations of his journey to produce music alongside the river
03 October,2022 05:21 PM IST | MumbaiThe groovy dance track ‘Ooo Ooo’ featuring Bollywood actress Ileana D'Cruz and singer-composer Qaran, was released on Wednesday. The track, which has flavours of urban and contemporary music, is composed and sung by singer-composer Qaran with lyrics by Qaran and Siddhesh Patole.
07 April,2022 02:42 PM IST | MumbaiAlia Bhatt-starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi marks the Balhara duo Sanchit and Ankit’s third collaboration with Sanjay Leela Bhansali. While talking to Midday the duo shared how SLB romances character more than the story and what they have in mind while composing the score.
07 March,2022 11:40 AM IST | MumbaiThe legendary singer-composer Bappi Lahiri took his last breath on Tuesday night (February 15) at Mumbai's hospital. The pioneer of disco music in Bollywood passed away at the age of 69. The singer was admitted to Criticare Hospital in Mumbai’s Juhu area. The cause of the singer's death was said to be OSA (obstructive sleep apnea).
16 February,2022 01:22 PM ISTIn a candid chat with Radio City's RJ Salil, music maestro AR Rahman opens up about the amalgamation of folk and international music, lockdown and his life as a composer.
06 January,2022 09:02 PM IST | MumbaiKids of top musicians like Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, Salim Merchant, and Sachin Sanghvi talk about the best advice received from their fathers. Watch Shivam Mahadevan, Shubh Mukherjee, Ayesha Merchant, and Tanishkaa Sanghvi talk about a track of their father that they would like to remake, and much more.
29 August,2021 12:00 AM IST | MumbaiBagging a Marvel project like Loki, merely eight years after turning to music composition as a career, Atif Afzal aka A-Zal lists out international films whose scores according to him are noteworthy. The former IT professional, who composed the track, Adhaan Maghribi, for the recently released Tom Hiddleston-starrer web series Loki, was roped in to create a background score set for a space sequence aired in the climax.
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