The music of this movie has set me thinking. The music is super fuckingly amazing of course. But what got me thinking was not that - it was that the music is a super blend - has amazing guitar, beats, indian instruments, the melody so typical of hindi romantic songs, the drums/beats so to typical of modern (yes i'm prehistoric) trance/club etc. It has blended them all and come out very good. (Rock fans would appreciate the good guitar in places though they - and me - want more of that).
(Hardcore musicians will forgive my amateurish criticim. I played the guitar a wee lil bit long long ago but I really do not know much about music. My taste is music is all "acquired"; acquired from friends.)
And it strikes me that this "blend" thing is so typical of Indian culture - look at the ahoms and the mughals - they came in, they conquered, and became Indian. Indians can both accept and they can copy; they accepted the mughals and the ahoms, imbibed/copied part of their culture and made it their own. And they copy and make it better. Like they are doing with music now.
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