Loy: Javed saab and Shankar have a great sync. It requires depth in the person to have imagined and shot it that way.

Who has shot a song for a guy standing in a graveyard feeling his solitude? It is almost poetic. To start a song with a word like вЂtanhayeeвЂ™ (loneliness), you have already shot the arrow into the personвЂ™s heart. Plus, Javed saab has a way of putting deep thoughts into the simplest of words. The whole family has a crazy sense of humour. The vibe was correct back then and has continued right through till Toofaan. He was into rock, blues, classical and world music and anything he wanted, we could do it together. We met and found ourselves on the same wavelength musically. How did the collaboration begin?Д®hsaan: Javed saab suggested to Farhan to contact us and see if things work out. You have been working with DCH director Farhan Akhtar and the family ever since. It took time for people to adjust but when they got used to it, it was like an addiction. ThereвЂ™s techno music in Koi Kahe Kehta Rahe, Jaane Kyun Log makes way for African music in between, there is ambient music in Kaisi Hai Yeh Rut and also Celtic music, which has been introduced in Woh Ladki Hai Kahan. DCH came through and it was so different. Others who were popular then were Jatin-Lalit, Nadeem-Shravan and Anand-Milind and there was a particular kind of music that they did. In the late вЂ™90s, AR Rahman had just come out. Synchronicity has a ring to it.Д®hsaan: The album had nothing that was familiar in terms of what was popular then. The music is one way of looking back, putting on your headphones and going into that zone. When you look back on those portions of your life, youвЂ™d love to relive them. Some of you may still be in touch or some may have gone to other parts of the world. It triggers some memories with your buddies. Loy: Whoever is watching the film or listening to the songs, it is a bit of a flashback for them. The music has gone into the audienceвЂ™s system. Like slow poison it grew on peopleвЂ™s minds and our songs are still playing. Anything fresh and pathbreaking is met with resistance at first.

Many of the music companies who were used to hearing a particular type of sound said вЂoh, this does not sound like film music!вЂ™ But that is why we were brought in so that it does not sound like something you have heard before. Shankar: When we came out with the album, initially, the response was very lukewarm. Having composed the music ourselves, we have never been able to live up to that level.

There has been no soundtrack like that since. There has not been a film like DCH since then. It was very new for the time and it still is. ItвЂ™s like twenty years have passed and still no time has passed. It is amazing how fast time flies and still how fresh this film is.Д®hsaan Noorani: Whenever we perform the music it sounds so new. Shankar Mahadevan: We remember everything so distinctly as if it was just yesterday that we composed all this music, the kind of energy we put together and had such a great time. Composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy revisit their вЂbest workвЂ™ which also marked the trioвЂ™s arrival in the industry and share why the songs have grown on people.ДЇirst thoughts on Dil Chahta Hai turning 20. Interestingly, the song album, which is now revered across generations of listeners and for the first time incorporated different elements of world music, received a lukewarm response from labels at the time of release. Years have been kind to Dil Chahta Hai and it still remains one of the most revisited, comfort films of Hindi cinema.

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