Where film cannot conjure scent or touch, instruments can often convey to
viewers how a particular place smells and feels. Such an undertaking is
especially important in films set in faraway or unfamiliar places, or that
conjure ethnic cultures and alien landscapes.
For Danny Boyle <javascript:zodInfuser.FillDescriptions('Danny
Boyle');>'s "Slumdog
Millionaire,"<http://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/190486/Slumdog%20Millionaire.html?dataSet=1>composer
A.R.
Rahman<http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/1249107/A.R.%20Rahman.html?dataSet=1>worked
under tight time constraints -- the entire score was conceived,
recorded and mastered in two months -- to bring to life the grit and
vibrancy of modern-day India.
The story follows the main character, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), throughout
his young life with a sort of urgent, unnerving energy. To capture this,
Rahman combined classical Indian instruments like the sitar with
contemporary pop music. "Paper Planes" by M.I.A. is featured prominently
during a scene in which Jamal and his brother are train-hopping through
India.
"The most dominating instrument on the whole soundtrack is the sitar,"
Rahman says. "I've never used the sitar like this before, and it worked
really well. But it's not just classical. ... The crew was very young, we
had the same vision. The energy of the film takes you through a roller
coaster, and that's one of the main inspirations for the whole music."
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