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Baaghi (2016 Film)
Introduction
Plot
Cast
Production
Music
References
External links
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Baaghi (2016 film)
Baaghi (English: Rebel) is a 2016 Indian martial arts film directed by Sabbir Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under his banner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. It features Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor in lead roles, with Sudheer Babu and Sunil Grover in supporting roles. Journalists noted similarities between the film and the 2011 Indonesian film The Raid: Redemption[3] and the 2004 Telugu-language Indian film Varsham.[4]
The film was released worldwide on 29 April 2016. Made on a budget of ₹350 million (US$5.4 million), Baaghi has earned over ₹1.20 billion (US$19 million) worldwide. The film has grossed 100 crores from India.[5]
Plot
The movie starts with martial arts champion Raghav (Sudheer Babu) kidnapping Sia (Shraddha Kapoor) from her film's set and taking her to Bangkok. Sia's father P.P. Khurana (Sunil Grover) goes to government offices and the police for help but no one is ready to assist them since Raghav is an influential man. Khurana then turns to Sia's ex-boyfriend, Ronny (Tiger Shroff).
In a flashback, Ronny and Sia meet on a train. Raghav sees Sia at the train station and starts to like her. He tells his men to get information about her. Ronny visits the school of Guruswamy in Kerala. In a letter to Guruswamy, Ronny's father explains that Ronny is a Baaghi (rebel), and asks him to make Ronny a good human being. Ronny and Sia fall in love, and Sia gives him a ring she got from her father, asking him to always keep it. Raghav asks for Sia's hand from Khurana, and Khurana is so lost by greed when he sees how much money Raghav offers for Sia. He agrees to hand Sia over to Raghav but when he sees that Ronny has Sia's ring, he realizes she is in love with Ronny. He informs Raghav, who decides to kill Ronny.
Ronny beats up Raghav's men when they manhandle Subbu, a mute little boy Ronny is close to, only for Raghav to get him arrested later on. Guruswamy tries to persuade Raghav, his son, to stop pursuing Sia, but Raghav poisons and kills him to get him out of the way. Ronny is heartbroken to hear of Guruswamy's death, since he had seen him as a father figure. Khurana then creates a misunderstanding between Sia and Ronny to separate them, which works, and the two part ways.
In the present, Ronny reaches Bangkok and visits Raghav's fight club, beating the strongest fighter there to get Raghav's attention. The next day, Ronny breaks into the house of Raghav's right-hand man, Viju, and threatens Viju's wife at gunpoint, forcing him to reveal Sia's location. Finding out she was at the hospital, Ronny saves Sia and escapes with her under both of them being disguised as a doctor and nurse. The two stop at an island on their way back to India, where Sia discovers her father's deceit when she sees that Ronny is still wearing her ring. The couple reconciles but Raghav and his men attack them. Viju shoots Ronny, who falls off a cliff.
Raghav takes Sia back to his place. It is then revealed that Ronny is alive. It turns out that Viju had used blank bullets in his gun, sparing him as Ronny had spared his wife's life earlier. Raghav kills Viju when Viju says that he believes Ronny to be right.
Ronny storms Raghav's building and single-handedly fights off all of the killers and swordsmen in Raghav's employ. He reaches Raghav, who initially overpowers him, but when Raghav reveals that he was the one who murdered Guruswamy, Ronny becomes enraged and uses Guruswamy's signature moves to kill Raghav. At the end, Ronny, now happily together with Sia, becomes the new teacher in Guruswamy's school, where a statue of Guruswamy now stands.
Cast
Production
Shroff trained and took up stunt classes for the film.[6][7]Sajid Nadiadwala hired a special team of 50 people to keep Shroff's look under wraps. The makers did not want his look to be revealed because of his role in the film being distinct from his role in Heropanti.[8] Telugu actor Sudheer Babu was signed to play a negative role, making his Bollywood debut. Shooting for Baaghi started on 27 May 2015.[9][10] The shooting of the film completed on 21 February 2016. The film was extensively shot in India and Thailand. Soma Kerala Palace, Kochi was shown in the movie as the KARMA Institute (school of Guruswamy). Song Sab Tera was shot in the exotic Poda Island.[11]
Music
The music of the film is composed by Meet Bros, Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari & Manj Musik while the background score is given by Julius Packiam. Lyrics of the movie are penned by Kumaar, Abhendra Kumar, Sanjeev Chaturvedi & Raftaar. The first song of the movie Sab Tera was released on 18 March 2016 which is sung by Shraddha Kapoor & Armaan Malik.[12] The full music album was released on 29 March 2016.[13]
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length1."Sab Tera"Sanjeev ChaturvediAmaal MallikArmaan Malik, Shraddha Kapoor3:482."Let's Talk About Love"Raftaar, Sabbir KhanManj MusikRaftaar, Neha Kakkar3:213."Cham Cham"KumaarMeet BrosMeet Bros, Monali Thakur4:444."Agar Tu Hota"Abhendra Kumar UpadhyayAnkit TiwariAnkit Tiwari5:285."Girl I Need You"KumaarMeet BrosMeet Bros, Arijit Singh, Roach Killa, Khushboo Grewal4:576."Get Ready To Fight"Rahul B. Seth, Sabbir KhanPranay RijiaBenny Dayal, Siddharth Basrur3:24Total length:25:45References
External links
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Sajid Nadiadwala
Sajid Nadiadwala (born 18 February 1966)[1] is an Indian film producer and director, and owner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment.[2]
Career
Nadiadwala started his career as a production assistant in his uncle's production house before establishing his own production company called "Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt Ltd". In 1992 he produced his first film Zulm Ki Hukumat starring Dharmendra and Govinda. In 1993 he produced Waqt Hamara Hai which marked the first pairing of action stars Akshay Kumar and Sunil Shetty. The production company produced several hit films including Jeet (1996), Judwaa (1997), Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega (2000) and Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004).
Despite being heavily hyped, his 2006 film Jaan-E-Mann failed to do well at the box office.[3] His next release, the 2007 film Heyy Babyy, was one of the year's biggest hit.[4] His 2009 production Kambakkht Ishq included the casting of American actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards and Brandon Routh. His first film of 2010, Housefull starred Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta and Boman Irani. On 30 September 2010, he announced a sequel to Housefull which would again star Akshay Kumar and be directed by Sajid Khan. His film Anjaana Anjaani starring Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra released on 1 October 2010. His film Housefull 2 was released on 5 April 2012. On 23 May 2014, his first movie starring two debutantes in lead roles Heropanti released.[5] The movie stars Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon and has the second highest opening for a movie starring debutantes.[6]
Nadiadwala made his directorial debut with the July 2014 release Kick, a remake Ravi Teja's 2009 Telugu film Kick. The film stars Salman Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez as the leads.[7]
Rangoon, starring Saif Ali Khan, Kangana Ranaut and Shahid Kapoor which released on 24 February 2017,[8].
Upcoming projects
Nadiadwala has got multiple films lined up for release, of which popular ones include Judwaa 2, starring Varun Dhawan, Taapsee Pannu and Jacqueline Fernandez, Baaghi 2, starring Tiger Shroff, and an untitled project, which will be directed by Nitesh Tiwari. Nadiadwala is also working on a big project to launch suneil Shetty's son Ahan shetty. An untitled film directed by Kabir Khan is also in conversations. Speculations are rife that he will soon direct Kick 2 starring Salman Khan. [9][10][11]
Personal life
Nadiadwala married actress Divya Bharti on 10 May 1992.[12] After 10 months of their marriage Divya suddenly died on 5 April 1993, after she slipped and fell from their fifth storey window at their Tulsi residency at age 19. Sajid was devastated.[13] After Divya's sudden death, he met his second wife Warda Khan who was a journalist, who came to interview Sajid on his first wife Divya's first death anniversary on April 1994. Warda immediately fell for him. That time Sajid was dating actress Tabu. In November 18,2000, after Warda proposed to him earlier, he married former journalist Warda Khan,[13] with whom he has two sons.[14]
References
External links
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Varsham (2004 film)
Varsham (English: Rain, Telugu: వర్షం) is a 2004 Tollywoodromanticaction film produced by M.S. Raju on his Sumanth Art Productions banner and directed by Sobhan. Prabhas, Trisha Krishnan, and Gopichand play lead roles, and the music was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Jyothika was offered the role of Trisha but opted out. The film was remade in Tamil as Mazhai starring Jayam Ravi and Shriya Saran and in Odia as Barsa My Darling. It was dubbed in Hindi as Baarish-The season of love. The movie has also been loosely remade into Hindi as Baaghi starring Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor
Plot
Venkat ( Prabhas) meets Shailaja ( Trisha) in a train journey and they immediately get attracted to each other after dancing in a rain shower. At the same time Shailaja catches the eye of Bhadranna ( Gopichand), a gangster who also becomes infatuated with her. Venkat keeps bumping into Sailaja coincidentally every time it rains and they fall in love. Ranga Rao (Prakash Raj), Sailaja's dad, is a typical black sheep with all kinds of bad habits. Bhadranna approaches him with the marriage proposal and Ranga Rao jumps on that and immediately agrees. Later, a film producer approaches him with an offer for Shailaja to act in a movie. Ranga Rao thinks that acting in films would be more lucrative than marrying her off to Bhadranna. He first successfully creates clashes between lovers and convinces Shailaja to act in a movie and leaves with her to the city. Venkat also leaves for Vizag to his uncle's place.
Infuriated Bhadranna kidnaps Shailaja from a shooting spot and tries to change her mind about marrying him. Movie producer gets tensed as shooting was paused and Ranga Rao advises him to approach Venkat as he believes Venkat still loves Shailaja. Venkat agrees and fights with Bhadranna for Shailaja. Gradually Shailaja comes to know that she misunderstood Venkat and apologizes. They reconcile happily and defeat Bhadranna.
Cast
Soundtrack
Music composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Lyrics were written by Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry. All songs are blockbusters. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.
No.TitleSinger(s)Length1."Nuvvosthanante"Chitra, Raqeeb Alam5:322."Mellagaa"S. P. B. Charan, Sumangali5:193."Nizam Pori"Adnan Sami, Suneeta Rao4:124."Langa Voni"Tippu, Usha3:525."Neeti Mullai"Sagar1:206."Kopama"Karthik, Shreya Ghoshal4:507."Joole Joole"Mallikarjun, Kalpana5:02Total length:30:32Allegory
Throughout the movie, there is a strong allusion to the Hindu epic Ramayana. Indeed, the story parallels the Ramayana in many ways, Venkat being an analogous Rama, Sailaja his Sita and Bhadranna being Ravana analog. Towards the beginning of the movie, as Ranga Rao enter's Bhadranna's residence for the first time, he proclaims - "లంక లాగ ఉన్నదే" - "this looks just like Lanka". Later, during a live play of the Ramayana at his house, upon seeing Rama take Sita back from Ravana, Bhadranna stops the actors from continuing the play and demands the script be changed immediately by having Ravana tie the mangalasutra around Sita's neck. Similarly, at the end of the movie, during another live play of the Ramayana, Rama shoots a large Ravana effigy with a burning arrow, and it is this burning collapsing Ravana that ultimately kills Bhadranna, leaving us with the final allegory of Rama killing Ravana and rescuing Sita.
Shooting spots
Venkat ( Prabhas) and Sailaja ( Trisha) confirm their love at a Temple while it's raining. This vital scene was shot at the Nandi statue of Thousand Pillar Temple in Warangal city. "Mellaga" song was shot at the same temple.
Awards and nominations
Box Office
References
http://www.aptalks.com/varsham-film-director-late-shobhans-son-debuts-as-hero/
External links
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Sunil Grover
Sunil Grover (born 9 August 1977) is an Indian actor and stand-up comedian[3]He has acted in many comedy shows but gained popularity on the Comedy nights with Kapil Show, for his portrayal of a character called Gutthi.[4] Other popular characters portrayed by him have been Dr. Mashoor Gulati and Rinku bhabhi on The Kapil Sharma Show[5][6]
Acting career
Sunil was discovered during his college days by the late satirist Jaspal Bhatti.[7] He has also acted in India's first Silent comedy show, SAB TV'sGutur Gu in the initial 26 episodes.
He was with comedian Kapil Sharma in the comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil and became immensely popular playing comical character, Gutthi, Rinku Bhabi and Dr. Mashoor Gulati. [8][9]
Sunil debuted in the Punjab film industry, with Vaisakhi List in 2016 and the same year he portrayed the role of Shraddha Kapoor's father in the Baaghi_(2016_film) movie.
Filmography
References
External links
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Sudheer Babu
Sudheer Babu (born Sudheer Babu Posani; 11 May 1979) is an Indianfilm actor and former professional Badminton player. He primarily works in the Telugu film industry. Sudheer made his debut as hero in the Telugu film industry with the film Shiva Manasulo Shruti. He is the brother-in-law of Telugu actor Mahesh Babu. In 2016, Sudheer made his Bollywood debut with the romantic action Baaghi as the main antagonist. Sudheer was approached to act in Baaghi after Sajid nadiawala team watched his stunts and work out personnel videos in YouTube.
Early life and badminton career
Sudheer Posani was born to Posani Nageswara Rao and Posani Rani on 11 May in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. He has an elder sister Karuna. He did his schooling in Vijayawada in Siddartha public school and attended M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology briefly in Bangalore (dropped out) and later graduated from Maharishi Institute of Management, Hyderabad. Later he generated interest in badminton and took it professionally with a lot of playing he showed his timbre which got him many accolades. Starting with the National School Games runner up and also was a Junior Badminton World Cup probable. He became determined to work a lot harder and eventually achieved the ranking as Andhra Pradesh No.1 player and also Karnataka No.1 player. He also played alongside Pullela Gopichand as a doubles partner.[1]
Personal life
Sudheer got married to Priyadarsini, the youngest daughter of Telugu actor Krishna in the year 2006. The couple has two sons named Charith Maanas and Darshan.
Film career
Sudheer began his acting career with the film Ye Maaya Chesave which was directed by Gautham Menon. The film was produced by his sister-in-law Manjula Ghattamaneni. In the film, he played the role of Samantha's brother.[2] Sudheer made his debut in a leading role with the film SMS (Siva Manasulo Sruthi) directed by Bheemli Kabadi Jattu fame Tatineni Satya.[3] The film was released on 10 February 2012.[4] It was produced by Vikram Raju under the Super Good Films banner.. Actress Regina Cassandra who also made her debut with this film was paired with sudheer. The film was a remake of 2009 Tamil film Siva Manasula Sakthi.[5]
His second film as hero, Prema Katha Chitram was released on 7 June 2013. Nandita acted alongside him. This film directed by J.Prabhakar reddy produced by Director Maruthi, received very positive reviews.[citation needed] Sudheer and Nandita won critical acclaim for their performances.
The film, which is being directed by G. Krishnareddy, also features Asmita Sood and Puunam Kaur.[6]
Filmography
References
External links
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Meet Bros
Meet Bros is a music director duo from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India.[1] The duo consists of Manmeet Singh and Harmeet Singh. They were formerly known as Meet Bros Anjjan with longtime collaborator Anjjan Bhattacharya.[2]
Initially starting out as actors, the duo switched to composing and singing after the success of their first song "Jogi Singh Barnala Singh". They began with composing for Isi Life Mein and Do Dooni Chaar but it was with Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum and OMG – Oh My God! that they got their first recognition as music directors.[3]
Meet Bros' most well-known and critically acclaimed songs are "Baby Doll" from Ragini MMS 2 and "Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan" from Roy. Both songs feature the vocals of Kanika Kapoor and the latter was part of a soundtrack that fetched them multiple awards including the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, the Screen Award for Best Music Director, and the IIFA Award for Best Music Director.[4][5][6]
Early life
Meet Brothers are real brothers. Their family is Punjabi and they lived in Gwalior. Their father's name is Gulzar Singh and mother's name is Nimmi Gulzar. Their mother wanted that both of them go to Mumbai and earn their name but their father wanted them to take care of business after completing their education. That is why they enrolled the two sons - Harmeet and Manmeet in a boarding school. Their early education took place in The Scindia School, fort, Gwalior. After this they went to Mumbai for higher education. They started acting in Bollywood to step in, but after the success of their solo song "Jogi Singh Barnala Singh", they chose music, leaving the acting. And after that they worked as a music director in many films and gave hit music. Both brothers completed their graduation from Sydenham College, Mumbai. Both have not received formal education in music. Both have worked in the TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Shagun.
Personal life
Big brother Manmeet married Karisma Modi in 2002 and currently has one daughter - Sumayra. Karisma works in Hindi TV serials. The younger brother Harmeet was married to Shefali Jariwal, but after a few years both of them got divorced and Harmeet married Sunaina Singh in 2010. They have a son - Aman.
Career
After leaving acting, Meet Brothers worked as a music director in Bollywood. Many years ago, they met Anjan Bhattacharya in a program and the three decided to work together and they named their trio as Meet Bros Anjjan. The three together made music for many songs and gave their voices. But they got big success when they made the song "Baby Doll", which they sang with Kanika Kapoor in the 2014 hit film Ragini MMS 2. This song was filmed on Sunny Leone and it was highly praised. Then they gave hit music several times. In 2015, Anjjan Bhattacharya got separated from the trio and started his own music business. Meet Bros also opened their own recording studio named "Meet Bros Recording Studio".
Their songs "Pink Lips", "Hangover", "Party To Banti Hai", "Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan" were also quite hits and they got fame in the music industry. They both also hold many concerts and take part in the concert. They have received many honors and awards for their music, including Filmfare Awards.
Discography
Film Soundtracks
As Meet Bros Anjjan (2010-2015)
1 A different version of this song is included in the soundtrack.2 One or more remixed version of this song is included in the soundtrack.
As Meet Bros (2015-present)
1 One or more remixed version of this song is included in the soundtrack.
Singles
Awards and nominations
As Meet Bros Anjjan
References
External links
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Ankit Tiwari
Ankit Tiwari is an Indian playback singer and music director. His career began upon to meeting Pradeep Sarkar, where he got a chance to work on jingles and started composing background scores for television programmes. Subsequently he was offered to compose music for Do Dooni Chaar (2010) and Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster (2011), where he started his singing career with the song he composed for the latter.
In 2013, he released his third song, "Sunn Raha Hai" from Aashiqui 2. The song along with its album was nominated for two Filmfare Awards winning the Best Music Director Award for the album along with Mithoon and Jeet Gannguli. In 2014, he again collaborated with Mohit Suri—director of the film Aashiqui 2—for Ek Villain, where he composed and sung the song " Galliyan". For the track he received another two nominations in Filmfare Awards winning Best Male Playback Singer Award. He also recorded song "O Yara" for the Pakistani film, Bin Roye, which top the charts.
Life and career
1986–2007: Early life
Ankit was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.[1] His parents own a music troupe in Kanpur called "Raju Suman and Party" which performs at religious convocations.[2] His mother, is a devotional singer.[3] Though his parents wanted him to complete his studies first, his inclination towards music led them to decide on training him professionally. He trained in classical music from Vinod Kumar Dwivedi before training in piano, Dhrupad and Western vocals.[4] He instituted at and won several local music competitions during the time.[4] He used to work as a production head at a radio station in Gwalior,[5] before he moved to Mumbai in December 2007 along with his brother Ankur Tiwari.[6]
2008–12: Beginnings and early releases
In Mumbai, Tiwari met Pradeep Sarkar who was working on a film at that time. Though the film got shelved, Sarkar gave him, along with other musicians, a chance to work on jingles.[3] It was then he composed a couple of background scores for television programmes.[5] Tiwari met Habib Faisal, who offered him to compose the music for his directorial debut film Do Dooni Chaar which was released in 2010. Later for producer Tigmanshu Dhulia he composed the theme song of Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster (2011).[4] With this film, Tiwari made his singing debut where he rendered the song "Saheb Bada Hathila" along with Vipin Aneja.[7]
2013–present
In 2012, Tiwari narrated the song "Sunn Raha Hai" to Mahesh Bhatt and Mohit Suri, the director of the film Aashiqui 2.[2][8] The song was also recorded in his voice and the female-version was rendered by Shreya Ghoshal.[2] Apart from receiving critical acclaim, the song fetched Tiwari with multiple awards and nominations. He shared his first Filmfare Award as the Best Music Director along with Mithoon and Jeet Gannguli.[9] The team received the Best Music Director Award from other ceremonies including IIFA Awards and Zee Cine Awards.[10][11] Apart from music direction, Tiwari received his second nomination in Filmfare Awards as the Best Male Playback Singer.[12] As his second release of the year, Tiwari collaborated with Sachin Gupta—marking his first song to the tunes of another composer—for the song "Aag Ka Dariya" from Issaq.[13]
2014 began with the film Dee Saturday Night, where two of his songs, "Falsafa Mera Falsafa" and "Jhatak Ke Nacho" went mostly unnoticed with the music listeners. He then performed the track "Kaisa Hai Dard Mera" which is composed by Ismail Darbar for Subhash Ghai's Kaanchi.[14] Tiwari composed two tracks for the film Samrat & Co., titled "Sawaalon Mein" and a party song "Tequila Wakila" where both are rendered by Ghoshal.[15] During the year, he performed three tracks for two of Himesh Reshammiya's films, The Xposé and Action Jackson. His rendition for the song "Sheeshe Ka Samundar" from the former received critical acclaim,[16] while "Punjabi Mast" and "Dhoom Dhaam" from the latter received negative response from critics.[17] In July 2014, a duet with Tulsi Kumar titled "Kuch Toh Hua Hai" was released included in the film Singham Returns.[18] The year ended with "Dil Darbadar" from PK.[19] Apart from all the songs released during the year, the most successful track was " Galliyan" from Ek Villain. The song was a critical and commercial success; Mohar Basu from Koimoi described the song as "the most attractive song of the album" stating "Tiwari's music and voice adds the required finesse in this song and what he has made darn great!".[20] The song fetched him several awards for Best Male Playback Singer including from Filmfare,[21]Star Guild[22] and Stardust Awards.[23] Subsequently he received his fourth nomination in Filmfare as the Best Music Director Award at 60th Britannia Filmfare Awards.[24] In the year, Tiwari made his debut in a Kannada film with the song "Nillu Nillu" from Dil Rangeela composed by Arjun Janya.[25]
Tiwari composed and sung the song "Katra Katra" along with Prakriti Kakar for the film Alone (2015).[26] They again collaborated for the song "Bheegh Loon" from Khamoshiyan. He then composed three tracks for the film Roy, "Tu Hai Ki Nahi", "Yaara Re" which is rendered by KK and "Boond Boond" performed by Tiwari himself.[27] The unplugged version of "Tu Hai Ki Nahi" performed by Tulsi Kumar along with the original received mixed reactions from critics though infusion of the whistle's tune was appreciated.[28]
Artistry
Composition
Tiwari stated that he wants to explore different genres given the right opportunity, though it shouldn't be vulgar and should hold meaning.[29] Satyajit from Glamsham called his second composed song "Saheb Bada Hatila" from Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster a "rock-musical" arrangement.[30] In his next composition "Sunn Raha Hai", the male version features electronic distortion guitar, zitar and drums while the female version is supported by instruments like ghatam, flute, santoor and acoustic guitar.[2] The variance in composition was particularly applauded by critics.[31]
In 2014, Tiwari composed "Tequila Wakila" which lies in Spanish style musical background settings of bass, drums, saxophone, trumpets and guitar while "Sawalon Mein" from the same film has a mysterious type semi-philosophical composition which is decorated with haunting piano notes and bell sounds in the background.[32] Rajiv Vijayakar from Bollywood Hungama mentioned that Tiwari seems to be "evolving into a composer with a decent range".[33] In the composition of the song " Galliyan" it transforms from "being slow-paced, to quickly accelerating into heavy rock music and then settling into soothing traditional Indian-themed sounds",[34] while the unplugged version dominantly uses the acoustic guitar alongside piano.[35] However for his next song "Kuch Toh Hua Hai", Surabhi Redkar for Koimoi commented; "Experimentation wise, the song shows no novelty as the musical arrangements are not peculiarly impressive".[36] According to reviewers, his last song released in 2014, "Dil Darbadar" has a huge "Galliyan" hangover and "doesn't actually fit into the scheme of things".[37] In September 2014, Tiwari said; "People usually call me for love songs or songs of separation, which I love composing. But I don't want to restrict myself to a particular genre".[5]
"Katra Katra" from 2015 had a similar fate with "Dil Darbadar" as the musical arrangements of both the song are similar to his earlier ventures. Redkar noted; "If only Tiwari could come up with something new [...] the only problem is that it all sounds the same".[38] His next was a passionate and intense composition, "Bheegh Loon" which fits with the erotic thriller mood of the film.[39] In "Tu Hai Ki Nahin" from Roy Tiwari used minimal musical arrangements mainly focusing on vocals and incorporate a whistle—first time he has used whistle as an instrument—which according to music listeners "sounds brilliant and has high recall value", while the next two tracks "Boond Boond" and "Yaara Re" were called "experimental" in terms of arrangement.[40][28]
Influences
Tiwari named the singers like KK, Puerto Rican and Ricky Martin as his idols.[3] He picked Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as one of his inspiration and dedicated a song to him from one of his composition at MTV Unplugged 4 – Episode 06.[29] Among the actors, Tiwari expressed his desire to dub for Shah Rukh Khan and Ranbir Kapoor.[1]
Popular singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan mentioned that he likes Tiwari's singing along with Arijit Singh's.[41]
Voice and rendition
Tiwari's early two releases "Sunn Raha Hai" and "Aag Ka Dariya" represent his "young energetic and strong vocals" which was well received by the critics.[42] "Kaisa Hai Dard Mera", despite with the similar pattern has a semi classical touch in his rendition.[43] His one of the most successful venture " Galliyan" provided Tiwari with a high vocal range which was particularly appraised in the song though Bollywood Hungama wrote that he sings the track in a "gimmicky tenor that sounds fake".[44] His voice and rendition was criticised in "Dil Darbadar" where IBNLive wrote; "Tiwari's choice to distort vocals using the Auto-tune software takes away the charm and rawness of a plaintive melody like "Dil Darbadar".[45]
Controversies
On 9 May 2014, Tiwari was arrested for allegedly raping his girlfriend, while his brother was booked on complaint of making threats to her life. Tiwari was apprehended under rape charges after a 28 years old advertising professional approached the Versova police station alleging rape. In her statement, she said that he raped her on many occasions since July 2013, after promising marriage.[46] A week later, he was granted bail by the Sessions Court on the condition that he furbish a bond of Rs 20,000.[47]
