Man in the Background

Amar Mohile has just been nominated for Best Background Score at Londons East End Film Festival 2010 for Land Gold Women.

Amar Mohile has just been nominated for Best Background Score at Londons East End Film Festival 2010 for Land Gold Women. The youngster,whos been very prolific in Hindi cinema,on this achievement and career
Amar Mohile was just 15 when he began playing the keyboards for Bappi Lahiri,Nadeem-Shravan,Anand-Milind,Jatin-Lalit,Ismail Darbar and others. The son of veteran composer and musician Anil Mohile,Amar Mohile has played on films like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Devdas.

But thats later, he says. My father helped me when I was young by facilitating my entry into the live recordings that were a norm then,especially those with Kalyanji-Anandji,and I also observed and studied what went into great background scores like Don and Sholay. I was lucky enough to attend live recordings to watch conductors marking scenes of a films background score and to have seen the acoustic along with the electronic eras.

Amars career actually started with some songs and the background score of the 2002 Ram Gopal Varma film Road followed by the 2003-2005 phase when he also composed the songs for Ram Gopal Varmas Naach and Gayab and also Apoorva Lakhias Ek Ajnabee. But the point is that I was always attracted to background scores more than making songs. The technical aspects always fascinated me. Amars most famous background scores among some 50 films include Kucch To Hai,Ek Hasina Thi,Sarkar,Love Story 2050,Phoonk,Luck,Jail and Rann. My work in the Marathi films Kadachit and Vasudev Balwant Phadke was also appreciated, smiles the affable youngster.

Amar has had a significant achievement in his being nominated in the Best Background score for Land Gold Women,a film on an honour killing in UK that has already won several awards including the National Best Film In English 2010. The film is directed by Avantika Hari. I have gone in for simple and soulful music here,especially for the protagonist.
Amar admits to a lot of mechanical qualities in some of his as well as other background scores in current times. The director and his views are very important in any post-production field, he says. We can think of anything,but what results,whether over-the-top or otherwise comes only from this final authority. Mixing tracks is a key element,and I normally prefer a mix of live music too.

On his own Amar would rather underplay his music and make sure that it does not overpower the film and its needs. The emotions should be right and it should support the film and the sequence. A screeching violin that would irritate in the wrong place was perfect in the way it was used in a film like Psycho, he says. Amar has enjoyed his work in Naach,Sarkar and Jail.
Amar is open to doing songs in films if everything fits in. Right now,I am re-creating the song Disco dancer and Yaad aa raha hai from the old classic Disco Dancer for Golmaal 3 besides composing the background score.