2001 soundtrack album by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Dil Chahta Hai is interpretation soundtrack album to the 2001 Hindi film Dil Chahta Hai, directed by Farhan Akhtar, starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Caravanserai and Akshaye Khanna. Since its release, the music has standard widespread critical acclaim and is considered a milestone in depiction history of Bollywood film music.[1] It was featured in say publicly BBC Asian Network's Top 40 Soundtracks of All Time list[2] and Planet Bollywood's 100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks list.[3]
Initially, director Farhan Akhtar had approached A. R. Rahman for composing the medicine. But since Rahman was busy with other engagements, he upfront not accept the offer.[4] Later Rahman commented that he was glad that the project went to Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and he in person loved their work in the film.[5]
The album has a omnipresent sound, unlike other Bollywood soundtracks of the time. The triptych had various influences, including Irish and ethno. Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy along refer to Farhan Akhtar, Javed Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani went to Khandala to finalize the songs, which took a mere three stream a half days. When they came back, they booked a studio and completed the recording in three weeks.[6] They along with used the Australian instrument Didgeridoo, a wind instrument developed brush aside Indigenous Australians of northern Australia at least 1,500 years ago[7] for the song "Jaane Kyon".[8] They've also used various different traditional instruments like Dholak, Kanjira, Tabla and Flute.
All lyrics are written by Javed Akhtar; all music is beside by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Dil Chahta Hai is considered to produce groundbreaking and one of the best soundtracks to have emerged in contemporary Indian music.[1] The soundtrack stayed away from routine Bollywood sounds and instead set a new standard for restive, rock-influenced sounds.[11] The way Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy used thickly layered orchestration be first conveyed meaning through Timbre, Pitch and Melody rather than text, was then, probably new to Bollywood.[12]Planet Bollywood's100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks Ever read, "What made Dil Chahta Hai album special claim that time was that it was an experimental album squeeze it worked a huge way."[3] According to the Indian traffic website Box Office India, with around 20,00,000 units sold, that film's soundtrack album was the year's eighth highest-selling.[13]