A noteworthy DUO
Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya spill the beans on composing for Abhishek Bachchan's keen awareness of music, and more
RDasvi, enowned music composing duo Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya are presently on cloud nine as they helmed the score for their favourite star Abhishek Bachchan in his latest release Dasvi.
The Free Press Journal caught up with Sachin-Jigar for an exclusive chat.
Opening up about working on the film, Sachin-Jigar explain, “Dasvi was a really fun project for us, especially because we were composing the music for our favourite Abhishek Bachchan. We got complete freedom to create a score which was best suited for the film.”
Sachin shares that they tried to incorporate the feel of Haryana into the songs as well as the background score but made sure to not be too pushy. Jigar chips in, “We wanted the audience to hear the music in a neutral way. Abhishek already speaks with
a Haryanvi touch in the film, and we did not want to further push it with the music as well. But yes, we have not completely detached the songs from the theme and have tried to add bits and pieces of Haryanvi here and there.” The film’s music is also very narrativedriven and it dominates some of its most important moments. “Director Tushar Jalota and producer Dinesh Vijan did not give us a brief which said ‘We want hit songs’, which is rare in today’s time. They instead said that let’s try and do something different, something worthy of a film like Dasvi, and we really loved the process,” Sachin says.
Sachin-Jigar got a first-hand experience of Abhishek’s love for music during the making of the film. “During one of our sessions with Abhishek, he told us that music has been a major aspect of his life right from his childhood. He shared that Amitabh Bachchan sir has a small set-up in the basement of their residence where he still pursues music as a passion. Abhishek made sure to give us honest feedback on the composition throughout the making of the film, and we felt like it’s coming from a person who actually knows and understands music,” Sachin gushes.
Jigar reveals that they even wanted Abhishek to croon a song for the film, but that didn’t come to fruition due to time constraints. “We hope to do an Indie song with him very soon though,” he adds.
The duo now wishes to explore the romantic genre and Indie music. “We want to produce music for love stories now, which we haven’t done much, apart from Shuddh Desi Romance or Meri Pyaari Bindu. We have always helmed music for concept-based films like the zombie drama Go Goa Gone or dance film ABCD: Anybody Can Dance, or the horror-comedy Stree. So we are itching to do an out-and-out romantic album now,” Jigar concludes.