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.
