The retro sleekness of the Don remake can be felt in its soundtrack too.
Here’s 20 of their best-excluding non-Hindi and Bandish Bandits-ranked. Their website lists 68 film albums-and that’s excluding Bandish Bandits, which marks their foray into composing for a web series (the critics have described it as an ‘East-meets-West’ soundtrack) and the first of its kind by any major composer. And they have done it their own way, an important entry in the post-AR Rahman, pre-Amit Trivedi narrative of modern day Hindi film music. And yet, despite their band-like anatomy, SEL have done some of the biggest, most mainstream work-“ Kal Ho Na Ho”, “Kajra Re”, “ Dil Chahta Hai”, you name it.
Shankar’s Carnatic and Hindustani classical roots get a counter point from Ehsaan’s indie music credo, with Loy on the keys, who mixes it all up. With a vocalist, a guitarist and a synth player, they are like a band. And therein lies some of the answers to what defines them.
They have been around for more than 20 years and it had never occurred to me that Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy have to be the only trio in the history of Hindi film music composers.
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