Dhurandhar music review: Ranveer Singh may play edgy undercover agent, this album is a hardworking deskie at best | Music News
Dhurandhar music review: Few movies get such a big countdown to release day, with all the pomp and circumstance, as Aditya Dhar’s directorial Dhurandhar has received. Ever since the first look was revealed, which had Ranveer Singh smoking like Thomas Shelby of Birmingham, Dhurandhar is all anyone has talked about. The first look also gave the fans a chance to eavesdrop on the music for the film, as it featured the title track. Furthermore, everyone was beyond excited that composer Shashwat Sachdev had revisited the classic qawwali ‘Yeh Ishq Ishq Hai’ from the film Barsaat Ki Raat (1960). But once you listen to the whole soundtrack, nostalgia starts feeling more like the easy way out rather than innovation. Bollywood composers are nefariously known for picking up entire tracks and their compositions for their own songs, as inspiration, of course. But some composers have proved that it can be done with some kind of subtlety and grace, like Shantanu Moitra displayed with the song ‘Kaisi Paheli Zindagani’ from Parineeta. The track was sampled from Louis Armstrong’s …

