POOJA SIR Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

 

POOJA SIR

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Director Deepak Rauniyar

Music Vivek Maddala

Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd

                                                         Selection Mostra Venezia

When two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case. But when she arrives, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, and she is forced to seek help from Mamata, a local Madhesi policewoman. By putting aside systemic discrimination and pushing through everyday misogyny, the women solve the case - but at what personal cost? Inspired by real events which took place in Southern Nepal during the 2015 race protests.

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Pooja, Sir is a political thriller inspired by actual events that took place in Southern Nepal in 2015.  While the film engages universal themes like class struggle and gender inequality, its characters and dialog are geographically specific.  When first approaching the film’s music score, I recognized that a key role for the music should be to help global audiences (and Western ones in particular) relate to the film, since its locale, culture, and language may be unfamiliar to them.  Working closely with director Deepak Rauniyar, I crafted a palette of musical colors that alludes to South Asian traditions but is, nonetheless, geographically broad.  I wanted the music to partner with the story without interfering—to draw the audience into the situations the characters are experiencing without necessarily calling attention to the fact that the music was performing this task.   The score describes the motivations and emotional unrest of the film’s protagonist—reflecting what’s going on inside her head—in contrast to portraying the perspective of a third-party observer. This character’s façade appears steely and calm, while the music helps guide the audience to understand there is brooding turbulence underneath, driven in part by the story’s inherent urgency.  When listening to the score, you hear tactile instruments, like plucked and bowed strings and percussion, which assist in grounding the story.  You also hear electronic textures, sculpted to “play against picture,” subverting audience expectations, producing surprising moments of aural and visual poetry.  The musical themes carry asymmetrical motifs, like odd meters and unusual harmonic structures—which keep everything feeling a bit off balance.  Throughout the movie, there is a sense of unease—of deception and secrecy—highlighted by these musical properties.   We hope you find this soundtrack stimulating—both as functional score that serves the film and as evocative and deeply satisfying music.

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