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.
