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| Sound Box Magazine - December 30th, 2013 Issue E- Magazine 30th Dec Issue |
Saturday, 4 January 2014
Sound Box loves The Sound of Sholay
Friday, 3 January 2014
Paying a tribute to Pancham Da
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| Team Sholay pays tribute to the God of Music RD Burman From L to R Yogesh Pradhan, Shehzaad Sippy, Raju Singh, Shaan Uttamsingh, Parikshit Lalvani and KJ Singh with RD Buran's car on his death anniversary |
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| RD Burman's favourite car at his home in Mumbai |
Raju Singh pays tribute to RD Burman
The Magic of Sholay
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| Cafe Sholay: Our movie is truly the peoples' movie |
Cafe Sholay... thank you for your love!
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Nothing says dance till you drop like, "Jab tak hai jaan, jaan-e-jahaan, main nachungi". The iconic climax song from Sholay has inspired movie titles, but nothing matches up to the desperation of young love, battling all odds, attempting to keep one's love alive even if it means dancing on broken glass!
When Sholay was being remastered in Dolby Atmos, the sound team had a huge challenge. "Dolby Atmos is to sound what 3D is to visual images. We were redoing the entire sound of Sholay in Dolby Atmos to add
something special, something extra to cater to a whole new generation of Sholay viewers. So when you see Basanti dance on broken glass, we had to ensure you could hear the sound so as to feel the character's
pain," says Parikshit Lalvani of the famous Kunal-Parikshit duo that designed the sound of Sholay 3D.
The entire foley was done at Aradhana Recording studio in Mumbai. The sound of breaking, had not been added initially. But when the team was putting everything together at the Media Artists's studio in Chennai,
they felt that something was amiss. So foley artist Iqbal was roped in to recreate the sound of glass being crushed under feet at Mumbai's Sunny Super Sound studio.
Elaborates Kunal, "We tried many different sounds and even got a foley artist to break glass in a sound studio. But everytime we could hear the sound of Iqbal's shoes on the glass. After several attempts the
brave man volunteered to break glass with his bare feet!"
Such was the dedication of each member of the team, that they shed both sweat and blood for this once in a lifetime project.
When Sholay was being remastered in Dolby Atmos, the sound team had a huge challenge. "Dolby Atmos is to sound what 3D is to visual images. We were redoing the entire sound of Sholay in Dolby Atmos to add
something special, something extra to cater to a whole new generation of Sholay viewers. So when you see Basanti dance on broken glass, we had to ensure you could hear the sound so as to feel the character's
pain," says Parikshit Lalvani of the famous Kunal-Parikshit duo that designed the sound of Sholay 3D.
The entire foley was done at Aradhana Recording studio in Mumbai. The sound of breaking, had not been added initially. But when the team was putting everything together at the Media Artists's studio in Chennai,
they felt that something was amiss. So foley artist Iqbal was roped in to recreate the sound of glass being crushed under feet at Mumbai's Sunny Super Sound studio.
Elaborates Kunal, "We tried many different sounds and even got a foley artist to break glass in a sound studio. But everytime we could hear the sound of Iqbal's shoes on the glass. After several attempts the
brave man volunteered to break glass with his bare feet!"
Such was the dedication of each member of the team, that they shed both sweat and blood for this once in a lifetime project.
The Unique Sound of Sholay
Remember the scene in Sholay when Thakur returns home to find that his entire family has been killed. Their is a haunting sound in the background, played on an unidentifiable instrument. "There is this water phone kind of a sound playing which I could not figure out how to replicate. My friend Sameer actually helped me source out this musician who had made this particular instrument for Pancham da. Unfortunately the gentleman had passed away. So we requested his son, Pradeep, to take us to the store room to source out that instrument. Eureka ! We found it !!! We requested him to come to the studio n play for us and he agreed. This instrument is made from a part we see under a truck... a round big ball with a pipe protruding from one end... A few metal rods had been welded around the pipe... Water was filled in the round ball... Then came the sarangi bow rubbed with solid rosin and this bow would create the magical sound by bowing it on the metal rods," explains music composer Raju Singh Panesar, who was faced with the challenge of recreating Sholay's music including background music from the scratch.
"It wouldn't be Sholay without its characteristic sounds. Given that the original sound track had burned and many of the original sound team people had passed away, we are really grateful to the family of the inventor for sharing their secret with us," says Parikshit Lalvani of the famous Kunal-Parikshit duo that has designed sound for many
acclaimed movies including the recent Ram Leela.
"We couldn't compromise. There are three types of movies... Hits, flops and Sholay. Sholay 3D had to retain the soul of the original and sound and music were almost like characters. Even silence spoke in Sholay," sums up Kunal Mehta who co-designed the sound of Sholay 3D.
"It wouldn't be Sholay without its characteristic sounds. Given that the original sound track had burned and many of the original sound team people had passed away, we are really grateful to the family of the inventor for sharing their secret with us," says Parikshit Lalvani of the famous Kunal-Parikshit duo that has designed sound for many
acclaimed movies including the recent Ram Leela.
"We couldn't compromise. There are three types of movies... Hits, flops and Sholay. Sholay 3D had to retain the soul of the original and sound and music were almost like characters. Even silence spoke in Sholay," sums up Kunal Mehta who co-designed the sound of Sholay 3D.
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