British mag cites Devdas for best music
- apunkachoice.com
Shahrukh Khan starrer Devdas has found a prominent place in a survey by prestigious British film magazine Sight & Sound on "best music in film". Devdas, which also starred Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai and Jackie Shroff and was directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, has been described by well-known French director Patrice Chereau as his favourite musical of all times.
Giving his reason for selecting Devdas over other international favourites like "The Godfather" and "Psycho", Chereau told Sight & Sound: "My favourite original score is the one in the film Devdas because it is one of extraordinary vitality."
"I can listen to it up to 10 times back to back, with all the images of the film returning to me. I lift up myself from my armchair and dance in my office hoping that the neighbours across the street are not at their window."
Chereau himself has made the haunting period film "Queen Margot" as well as the sexually charged "Intimacy".
The latest triumph for Devdas delights its creator. Says Bhansali: "The music getting recognition out West is a special triumph for me and composer Ismail Durbar, background scorer Monty and my lyricist Nusrat Badr."
"All of us had worked so hard to create that special quality of sound in Devdas which was at once classical and contemporary, Bengali and yet universal. The music of Devdas took two years of my life."
"I flew down alone to Kolkata to research various music pieces. But finally when the soundtrack released, the sales were disappointing. People said the music in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam was better. I accepted that in all humility, though when the 'Hum Dil...' score had come out, lots of people had found that disappointing."
"I feel 10 years down the line the Devdas soundtrack will get its due...For the music of Devdas to get a mention in such a classy poll in Sight & Sound is no mean achievement."
