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Udta Punjab
Soundtrack album by
Amit Trivedi
Released16 May 2016 (2016-05-16)
Recorded2015–2016
Studio
  • A T Studios, Mumbai
  • The Click Studio, Mumbai
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length38:53
LabelZee Music Company
ProducerAmit Trivedi
Amit Trivedi chronology
Fitoor
(2016) 		Udta Punjab
(2016) 		Dear Zindagi
(2016)

Udta Punjab is the soundtrack album to the 2016 film of the same name directed by Abhishek Chaubey and produced by Balaji Motion Pictures and Phantom Films starring Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt and Diljit Dosanjh. The film soundtrack is composed by Amit Trivedi and lyrics written by the late Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Shellee and Varun Grover. The film score was composed by Benedict Taylor and Naren Chandavarkar. The soundtrack was released under the Zee Music Company on 16 May 2016.

Production

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Amit Trivedi composed the film's soundtrack in his maiden collaboration with Chaubey; Anurag Kashyap, one of the film's producers, recommended Trivedi to compose the film, replacing Vishal Bhardwaj, who previously worked with Chaubey on Ishqiya (2010) and Dedh Ishqiya (2014).[1] The brief given to Trivedi was to curate a new soundscape for the character Tommy Singh (Kapoor) so it would depict the story through its music. He further opined that "the whole album is Tommy Singh’s expression [...] He is a drug addict. He is high on cocaine everytime. He is loud, edgy and trippy guy. The entire characterisation of Tommy Singh had to be done through music. That’s why the music is trippy, edgy, dark, young and cool."[2]

Trivedi integrated psychedelic trance and hip hop music on curating the film's soundtrack, while also being influenced by Punjabi folk music through its songs.[1] Since Kapoor was not ready for singing, Trivedi and Chaubey tried to sort out several singers who could sing and rap but could not find anyone.[3] This resulted in Shahid Mallya and Banu Pratap Singh to provide the singing vocals for Tommy Singh and Babu Haabi as the rap vocals. Other singers included Diljit Dosanjh, Kanika Kapoor, Vishal Dadlani and Trivedi himself. According to Trivedi, he found composing music as a challenge, as it had to be commercially viable adding "We had to keep everything in mind before recoding a song. It was quite difficult for me."[4]

Trivedi stated that most of his films were "in his druggie headspace" until when Tommy Singh is reformed, the music then shifted to two simplistic and folksy songs, which was like both rehab and gurudwara, being "the two extremes of the album. The final product is a result of a lot of filtering down." Trivedi further added that he had to rewrite the lyrics for the title track, as if those lyrics were retained, would face censorship issues.[5]

The music rights for the film were acquired by Zee Music Company for ₹18 crore (US$2.1 million),[6] making it the then-biggest such deal in Hindi film music scene.[7][8] Initially, T-Series was reported to acquire the film's music rights, but the label's vice president Priya Gupta denied such claims.[9]

Marketing and release

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The soundtrack was preceded by the first song "Chitta Ve" which released on 4 May 2016,[10][11] and the second song "Ikk Kudi", then followed on 11 May.[12][13][14] The soundtrack was released digitally on 16 May.[15]

Critical reception

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Aelina Kapoor of Rediff.com wrote "It is a tough task to put together a theme-based soundtrack for a film and make it interesting and entertaining enough to find an audience. Amit Trivedi and Shellee make it happen with Udta Punjab."[16] Devesh Sharma of Filmfare described it as "a hugely entertaining and original album that pulls all the right strings" making it Trivedi's "best offering in recent times".[17] Sankhayan Ghosh of The Hindu wrote "It’s unfair to form a judgement about an album after a few listens but at the moment Udta Punjab is a good album that has moments of brilliance."[18]

Manish Gaekwad of Scroll.in wrote that "the film’s music coaxes listeners to get hooked to its trippy sounds instead."[19] Suanshu Khurana of The Indian Express wrote "The end of the album got me thinking what its makers were on — they’ve got the drug-soaked sound and the intoxication to a tee. Buy it to enter one of the more versatile worlds Trivedi has created in a while."[20] Swetha Ramakrishnan of Firstpost wrote "Udta Punjab feels like a 30 minute long high, it makes you deliriously happy in parts, really sucks you into its rhythms and then leaves you with a lingering sense of drowning into something."[21] Karthik Srinivasan of Milliblog wrote "Amit offers a welcome diversion from the Honey Singh brand of Punjabi music."[22]

Rohit Mehrotra of The Quint wrote "we expected much more because it is after all the ‘am’ ‘it’ man at work, but the overall album is a tad underwhelming. Pick this one up for Ikk Kudi, Da Da Dasse and of course Ud-daa Punjab and you won’t be disappointed."[23] Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama wrote "Udta Punjab has a shaky start to it but becomes better as it proceeds. Though one waits to see the kind of acceptance that it manages to find in the commercial zone, one has to admit that this experimental score is different and daring for sure."[24]

Controversy

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The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) demanded the removal of the song "Chitta Ve" due to its objectionable lyrics, although it was later included in the film with the lyrics being modified.[25][26] In early June 2016, Sarba Mann from Barnala, Punjab filed a lawsuit against the producers and the music label, accusing them of intellectual property infringement; Mann claimed that he had wrote lyrics for the song "Chitta" and claimed that the producers had sold the song without his consent.[27]

Track listing

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No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Chitta Ve"ShelleeBabu Haabi, Shahid Mallya, Bhanu Pratap Singh4:48
2."Da Da Dasse"ShelleeKanika Kapoor, Babu Haabi4:01
3."Ikk Kudi"Shiv Kumar BatalviShahid Mallya4:02
4."Ud-Daa Punjab"Varun GroverAmit Trivedi, Vishal Dadlani4:35
5."Hass Nache Le"ShelleeShahid Mallya4:30
6."Vadiya"ShelleeAmit Trivedi4:29
7."Ikk Kudi" (Reprised Version)Shiv Kumar BatalviDiljit Dosanjh4:07
8."Ikk Kudi" (Club Mix)Shiv Kumar BatalviAlia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh4:14
9."Ikk Kudi" (Asees Kaur Version)Shiv Kumar BatalviAsees Kaur4:07
Total length:38:53

Accolades

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Award Date of ceremony[a] Category Recipient(s) and Nominee(s) Result Ref.
Stardust Awards 19 December 2016 Best Music Director Amit Trivedi Nominated [28]
Best Music Album Zee Music Company Nominated
Filmfare Awards 14 January 2017 Best Music Director Amit Trivedi Nominated [29]
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Best Lyricist Late Shiv Kumar Batalvi (for the song "Ikk Kudi") Nominated
Best Female Playback Singer Kanika Kapoor (for the song "Da Da Dasse") Nominated
Mirchi Music Awards 18 February 2017 Album of the Year Amit Trivedi, Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Shellee, Varun Grover Nominated [32]
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Music Composer of the Year Amit Trivedi (for the song "Ikk Kudi") Nominated
Raag-Inspired Song of the Year "Ikk Kudi" Nominated
International Indian Film Academy Awards 14–15 July 2017 Best Music Director Amit Trivedi Nominated [34]
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Best Male Playback Singer Diljit Dosanjh (for the song "Ikk Kudi") Nominated
Best Female Playback Singer Kanika Kapoor (for the song "Da Da Dasse") Won

Notes

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  1. ^ Date is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.

References

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