Andhadhun

Andhadhun is the soundtrack to the 2018 Indian Hindi-language black comedy crime thriller film of the same name directed by Sriram Raghavan. The album features ten tunes; six songs, three instrumental theme tracks, alternative versions for two of the songs featured in the album. Most of the tracks were composed by Amit Trivedi, excluding one song – the title track of the film was written, composed and recorded by Raftaar and Girish Nakod. Lyrics for Trivedi's compositions were written by Jaideep Sahni and vocals for the songs in the album were provided by Trivedi, Raftaar, Ayushmann Khurrana, Arijit Singh, Abhijeet Srivastava, Aakansha Sharma, Shadab Faridi and Altamash Faridi. The film score was composed by Daniel B. George. The album released on 5 September 2018 through the Zee Music Company record label. Development Amit Trivedi stated that he had admired Sriram Raghavan's works since Ek Hasina Thi (2004), and followed up with Johnny Gaddar (2007) and Badlapur (2015). Since he was assigned to score for Andhadhun, he felt it as "a task to fit his music in his film". He also had struggles with the idea to incorporate songs in a film with a blind pianist as a protagonist. With demands for the protagonist to also be a singer (Ayushmann Khurrana, also crooned and composed for few songs in his previous films), the writer and composer decided to turn him into a singer-pianist. It was initially revealed that Ayushmann will reportedly sing one of the tracks in the film or he may work in a separate indie track. However, he crooned vocals for the reprised versions of one of the tracks. Speaking about Khurrana, Trivedi said that "he is a rare combination of a good actor who also sings well". In an interview with Firstpost-based critic Devansh Sharma during September 2019, Trivedi said that the composition of three romantic tracks "Naina Da Kya Kasoor", "Aap Se Milkar" and "Laila Laila" back-to-back and incorporate in the first half of the film was challenging and was a divided house since "many felt the love between Ayushmann and Radhika's characters was blossoming in those portions". But he felt that "he actual movie starts with the murder scene, and we were taking too long to reach there". Despite being one of his favourite tracks, Trivedi had to remove the track "Aap Se Milkar" from the film as he felt the song was irrelevant and may stretch the narration. Trivedi presented nine tracks for the album, including the theme tracks.