83

83 is the soundtrack album to the 2021 Hindi-language sports drama film of the same name directed by Kabir Khan, based on the Indian Cricket Team led by Kapil Dev, which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. The soundtrack composed by Pritam, featured 14 tracks with lyrics written by Kausar Munir, Jaideep Sahni, Prashant Ingole and Ashish Pandit. The score is composed by Julius Packiam. The album was released under the Zee Music Company label on 23 December 2021. Background The film's soundtrack is composed by Pritam, who worked with Kabir Khan's previous films including New York (2009), Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Phantom (2015) and Tubelight (2017). In January 2019, during the launch of Pritam's apprentice musical platform JAM8, along with Advait Chandan, Karan Johar and Imtiaz Ali, Khan announced that Pritam will compose the music and score for 83. Speaking about the music of the film, Khan said that "Like every other Hindi films, the music will be definitely important in 83 as well, while also becoming an integral part of the film. It is a sports film, so the music is motivational. There will be obviously, an anthem of motivation and songs of several mood in the film." Khan however added that there would be no lip-syncing songs in the film, as "audience will not accept Kapil Dev singing on the streets of London". On 13 May 2019, Pritam started working on the compositions of the film's soundtrack. Pritam stated that "the film an extremely inspirational story of human triumph with a lot of humour and emotion along the journey and the album will capture all these elements"; adding that the film being more special "due to the memory and the euphoria of the 1983 World Cup victory which is still fresh among the Indians and was a moment for India like no other". While Pritam was assigned to compose the background music, Julius Packiam, however worked on the film's background score. Development Pritam read Kabir Khan's script for 6-7 times saying it as one of the "best scripts he had read in his career". The film did not have a single situation for a song in the film, which resulted Pritam to work around the theme of the film. In an interview with Outlook India-based critic Samarth Goyal, Pritam had stated "He wanted the music to just play in the background of the matches or the events that were happening. Like how it happens in Hollywood films. There is no lip-sync or anything. But it's like an OST version".