Creating a unique sound and music brand especially in today ’ s competitive market is not an easy task at all . With tons of talent around , the unique brand making when it comes to Bollywood and off-beat Indian music needs lot of efforts , brainstorming along with good ear for what clicks and what exactly is happening out in the world of music . The two masterful gentleman Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya have proved their mettle as film music and off beat music composerswho have a different edge altogether . After working as orchestrators for the popular film music composer Pritam Chakraborty , they rose to prominence by being a musical duo that gives a thump as well as striking the heartstrings in the right strokes with their series of successful project . With their close association with impactful filmmakers Raj and DK , Sachin- Jigar made waves with their latest offering even in OTT with a song in Family Man Season 2 . Their music is pleasing as well as scintillating at the same time for the listener- taking unusual , but beautiful roads to bliss .
Here is a candid conversation with them presented by the Score Magazine : Hello Sachin- Jigar , we are pleased to talk to you ! Thanks a lot . The honour is ours !
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We love the Family Man Title track . Shreya Ghosal and Mellow D have lent their voices and Jigar and Mellow D worked on the lyrics too . Tell us about this project and how did this happen ? Sachin : When it comes to Raj and DK , it is never a straightforward path . They love their paradoxes and the name “ The Family Man ” speaks of it all . We always get lot of room to do something perky and funky , because there is such amazing scope . The whole thing in our head was to keep Indian traditions alive through a riff , by making a riff that includes traditional Sitar with Hip- Hop beats . They only gave us a particular line “ Kis Ke Liye Tu Jaan Dega “( Whom would you sacrifice your life for !?). In the first go , it was so different when linked to the lead character of the series- who plays the role of a secret spy .
Jigar : As the song ’ s lyrics say , we live for many things and there is lot of a purpose in the life . The entire thought behind the song is quite crazy . When Shreya Ghoshal ’ s voice comes in , it is all magical . The song is a multitude of many aspects . As we were inching towards finishing the song , Sachin came up with the idea that the song cannot end with-out a high . That idea led us to churn out a semi-symphony part that ’ s like a part contem-porary symphony . We wanted to make a theme with lyrics because we strongly believe that lyric plays an important role in a song and narrating a story .
We are so glad that Raj-DK made us stick to our exploratory side . The rap sounds so beautiful as well . Though they are south Indian at heart , they brought an amalgamation of Indian Music altogether .
From what we know , you both started somewhere in 2006 with the background score for a Marathi film . You both have created some incredible numbers . Has anyone ever asked you both how is it to work with each other ? Why this duo and how did this hap-pen ? Sachin : ( Laughs ) Almost everybody asks us this question ! To be very honest , lot of people think Sachin- Jigar are actually one person . We are not even brothers but partners in crime ! Duos are something that cannot be pre-planned . It just happens- when things click while sharing work load . I was doing lot of Television shows and was working with Amit Trivedi back in 2001 . We compliment each other with natural flow but even then , we never thought of becoming a duo until we started arranging for Rajesh Roshan sir . In one Rajesh Roshan song in Krish , they wanted us to rearrange a song and it gave me great confidence to work as a duo . A strong approval from seniors such as Rajesh Roshan and Rakesh Roshan gave us the confidence .
We even have lot of things in common beyond music such as our love for food , the de-sire to run away from Bombay ! Jigar : Absolutely . We feel the same thing for Cinema and that ’ s what we have been do-ing !
Sachin : The whole idea of sustaining as a duo is that- we are not too overly ambitious in terms of composing . We don ’ t intend to change the world with our music and that ’ s how we got more ese . I haven ’ t met Jigar few times throughout the lockdown , yet he used to know what I needed or where a sample in the studio ’ s computer was located ! We did a whole album for Abhishek Kapoor ’ s next project by reading a script in PDF format ! We have such an amazing sync that we can handle each other is the biggest thing .
Jigar : We never thought dramatically that the sound of India is going to change . We have started at a point where we thought we should just do good music at the end of the day . We always stood for a change , and waited what would come next- so this has given us ample scope
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