Arijit Singh - Film Companion

5 min

Pagglait Is An Easy-To-Like Film About The Trappings Of Tradition

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021
by Rahul Desai

Sanya Malhotra is a fine actress and it’s all there: the subtle softening of her face when a man claims that he loves her, her conflicted bonding with the husband’s ex, the unfilmable epiphanies

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4 min

Pagglait, On Netflix, Is Well-Intentioned But Lightweight

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021
by Anupama Chopra

The film, starring Sanya Malhotra, doesn’t dazzle because the emotions embedded here don’t land

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4 min

Pagglait Music Review

Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021
by Sankhayan Ghosh

You may not love each and every track, but there’s no denying that this is an uncompromising labour of love.

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7 min

15 Hindi Film Songs To Mend Your Broken Heart

Posted on February 10, 2021February 12, 2021
by Sankhayan Ghosh

From Ja Ja Bewafa to Ja Chudail, a playlist of breakup songs from Hindi cinema

AR Rahman’s 99 Songs is easier to admire than love, but there’s a LOT to admire...

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5 min

My Lockdown Diary With The Album Of 99 Songs: A Gift That Keeps On Giving

Posted on January 5, 2021January 5, 2021
by Soumya Bharathi

There are 14 songs in the album in as many genres (talk about variety!)

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9 min

Benny Dayal's New Single Is a Satirical Take On The Music Industry

Posted on October 12, 2020October 12, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

Dayal talks about why singers from his generation are getting less work and how analytics is ruining Hindi film music.

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3 min

Arijit Singh Is Singer-Composer-Filmmaker In 'Rihaa'

Posted on October 5, 2020October 5, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

It’s only when you see the music video that you get the DIY spirit of the enterprise, as though a bedroom producer with visual ideas collaborated with people remotely and did something for pleasure in his lock(downtime).

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5 min

Why Bollywood Composers Have Started Their Own Music Labels

Posted on October 3, 2020October 5, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

Hindi film music artists are releasing independent, non-film work to express themselves more freely. Is it also a reaction to the tyranny of big music companies?

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5 min

When Arijit Singh Interviewed AR Rahman

Posted on September 5, 2020
by Team FC

What happens when two introverted musicians from two different generations chat for an hour and a half on Zoom Call? Some exchanging of notes, some fanboying, and a lot of nerding out

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3 min

The Many Modes of Arijit Singh: 5 Songs

Posted on April 25, 2020May 9, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

Whether it’s adopting a whole new singing style to inhabit a complex movie character, or letting the cracks of his voice show, a list of songs where the superstar singer sounds different

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6 min

There's A LOT To Admire In AR Rahman’s 99 Songs

Posted on April 2, 2020May 13, 2020
by Baradwaj Rangan

This isn’t just a movie’s soundtrack album. It’s a ‘concept album’, like the whoppers that major rock bands used to make when music was more than just something you listened to while doing the dishes.