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A Suitable Boy - Original Television Soundtrack
 
Based on Vikram Seth’s 1300-page book following the fortunes of four large families, the six-part series is directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) and adapted for screen by Andrew Davies (War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice). The series was created by an almost exclusively all Indian cast and crew and main roles featured Tanya Maniktala (Lata), Ishaan Khattar (Maan), Mahira Kakkar (Mrs Mehra), Danesh Razvi (Kabir), Namit Das (Haresh).

The score was composed by Alex Heffes with Anoushka Shankar, world renowned sitar player. Previously paired on Mira Nair’s 2016 Disney Film Queen Of Katwe, Alex knew how important the music score is to her. Says Alex of his work with Mira “music flows throughout Vikram Seth’s book so we discussed very early on how to tie the original score into the very authentic music world of India that had been captured on screen and how to create a musical language for the score that weaves between the world of Classical Indian music and the world of film music… careful consideration was given to how to integrate orchestra into the Indian musical world, often having to learn to follow the phrasing and bending of the sitar.”

In search of character’s music themes, Alex arranged experimental sessions with some of the UK’s best classical Indian performers, combining tabla, mridangam, kanjeera, ghatam and many other percussion instruments with bansuri (Classical Indian flute), tanbura and the sitar. Early on, the decision was made that the sitar would be Lata’s ‘voice’. For Kabir they used the bansuri, played by acclaimed indian performer Ashwin Srinivasan and for the character of Amit, the solo violinist Philippe Honoré provided the musical voice. For suitor number three, Haresh, a variety of pitched Indian classical percussion such as clay pots, mangeera (hand cymbals), ghungroos and morsing (jaw harp) was employed, played by percussionist Sanket Naik.

Says Mira Nair “The three of us (Mira, Anoushka and Alex) approached several Indian artistes. Ashwin Srinivasan, the great flutist, plays throughout the soundtrack. Namit Das, who also acts as Haresh Khanna in A Suitable Boy, is an extraordinary singer who composed the boatman’s song as the lovers crossed the Ganges. Gagan Dev Riar, who also acts in A Suitable Boy, made a beautiful song of longing for the widow in the village scenes.

We were lucky to get the great maestro, Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan, the son of the legendary Ustad Vilayat Khan, to perform ‘Jhinjhoti’ and ‘Khamaj’ on screen in two concerts. The syncretic nature between traditional Indian sound and the Islamic influences that had arrived through Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan, which was then called India; all of this confluence can be experienced in the music of A Suitable Boy.”

【曲目】
＜Side A＞
01. Prologue
02. Lata’s Theme
03. Your Sister, My Brother
04. You Too Will Marry A Boy I Choose
05. Lutf Woh Ishq Mein – Composed & Sung by Kavita Seth
06. Mehfil Barkhaast Hui – Composed & Sung by Kavita Seth
07. Smitten Kitten (Meenakshi’s Theme)
08. Holi
09. Quegdevelim Sunset – Composed by Rhys D’Szousa / Performed by Bombay Brass
10. No Time, Lover, Or Friend
11. Raag Khamaaj – Composed & Performed by Shujaat Husain Khan

＜Side B＞
01. There Is No Harm In Dawn
02. The Floating Temple – Composed by Alex Heffes, Anoushka Shankar, Namit Das & Yamini Das
03. Pillow Talk
04. Let’s Go Away / I Never Want to See You Again
05. Na-rawa Kahiye – Composed & Sung by Kavita Seth
06. What Happened & Maan Delirium
07. Muddat Hui Hai – Composed & Sung by Kavita Seth
08. Kabir’s Letter
09. Unsuitable Tango
10. The Railway Theme
11. One Loves You
12. Your Parakeet Is Well?

＜Side C＞
01. Are You Making Fun of Me?
02. Farewell to Rasheed
03. Are You A Lipstick Girl?
04. Are We French Now?
05. Dil-e-Nadaan – Composed & Sung by Kavita Seth
06. Make Lata Love Me
07. I Can Make Any Shoe
08. Think Beyond Your Friends
09. Fluke of A Catch
10. Christmas In Prahapore
11. Free India’s First Election
12. Raag Jhinjhoti – Composed & Performed by Shujaat Husain Khan

＜Side D＞
01. Raag Lalit
02. Maan In Turmoil
03. Loss
04. The Fever Bird
05. Maan In Prison
06. An Unfortunate Accident
07. Love Has Run Its Course (Mehfil Barkhaast Hui Duet) – Composed by Kavita Seth / Sung by Kavita Seth & Sharvari Deshpande
08. A Suitable Boy
09. Lata Chooses Her Suitable Boy
10. Monkey Wisdom

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