Last year, when filmmaker Anurag Kashyap approached Rachita Arora to compose the music for the Netflix series, Sacred Games, the only brief was to binge on Bappi Lahiri. "I listened to his disco tracks on loop to get a sense of the infectious rhythm that defined his music," she says. After that, it was about whipping up tunes that were not just groovy, but had "depth." "Anurag wanted the songs to have an intriguing, haunting quality about them," she says. By adding a good dose of dance floor beats and 80s-styled synth sounds, Arora was ready with two tracks, Disco Capital and Labon Se Chhukar, within a week. Needless to say, Kashyap liked what he heard, and so did the rest of the country.

Foray into web series
But it's not just Sacred Games that had Arora, who is in her thirties, shuffling in and out of recording studios on an everyday basis. The Delhi-born musician, who moved to the city two years ago, has also composed the theme song of Sunny Leone's biographical web series Karenjit Kaur: The Untold Story of Sunny Leone. Unlike Sacred Games, for this one Arora had to rely on heavy orchestration, brass instruments, drums and electric guitars. "We had to create the kind of music which was emotional and powerful at the same, because the story delves into delicate aspects of her life. Therefore, the music had to reflect Sunny's personality but not the way it is portrayed in mainstream media," she explains.