How do the songs help move the movie along?
The special factor about these songs is that none of them are in lip synch. Like how it is typically in Hindi movies, you have the actor “singing” the song and all that. So, the full songs are featured in the movie but what is there is like a background score, which is [playing] while the scene is going on. So it features more like a soundtrack, like it is in Hollywood films. The progression of the scene, or stuff, which is happening in a particular moment in the film, the lyrics and the song play as background track to what is actually happening. It is story telling what is happening but without real lip synch. So I feel it works more like a soundtrack, which expresses what the character is feeling at that time, at that moment in the film. The songs are very very specific. They are not like OK, we have to do a song, which is rock, so lets put it there in the movie somehow. It’s absolutely not like that. Onir is a very intelligent filmmaker and he only works with what is going with the
