Soundtrack Movie Reviews

The film is inspired by the English film It's All Gone Pete Tong which traced the intense highs and lows in the life of musician Frankie Wilde, a legend in the Ibiza club scene, as he battled his hearing disorder. But kudos to both filmmaker Neerav Ghosh and actor Rajeev Khandelwal for creating a completely authentic Indian idiom in Soundtrack which holds up a glitzy, yet dark mirror to the Mumbai rock scene. If Ghosh prefers to tell his story with poise

Hear this. DJ Raunak loses his hearing ability and gets to hear the voice of his conscience. Great premise for an onscreen human drama? Debutant director Neerav Ghosh, with incredible support from his leading man Rajeev Khandelwal, creates an engrossing defence of anti-hedonism. Excessive self-indulgence is dumb. It can also make you deaf. So says the film's well-crafted screenplay. The message is driven home with a refreshing absence of self-importance

There's nothing like watching a guy hit the ebb and then trying to crawl back again. The triumph of the human spirit catches our attention all the while. After all, people love watching a good tragedy. SOUNDTRACK, the official remake of the award winning IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG, narrates one such story. Rajeev Khandelwal is one of the few actors to have made a successful transition from television to cinema. His choice of films, starting with AAMIR

Just imagine what it would have been like for Beethoven who created music while being deaf or artists such as Claude Monet and Benode Behari Mukherjee who painted despite losing their eyesight? Neerav Ghosh's Soundtrack not only explores the dilemma of a creative man in the face of such a loss but also the thin schism between 'fact and fiction.' The 'fact and fiction' theory was put forth by American film critic Roger Ebert in his review

Soundtrack is an official remake of It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) - a Canadian indie; a vivid blur of energy, and excesses - and it remains faithful to the original for most part. A story in two halves, the first is about a small town boy Raunak (Rajeev Khandelwal) with a knack for music who lands up in Mumbai and is quickly put to work in a nightclub. Effortlessly he takes over the club's DJ duties and is an instant success. Almost genius, he quickly becomes

A R Rahman is referred to as the Mozart of Madras, and Soundtrack's protagonist Raunaq Kaul (Khandelwal) is proudly titled the Beethovan of Bandra! Music runs in his blood as he finds melody in everything - from the city's blaring horns to the vibrations from the local trains, and the din created by the roadside vendors. Just when he is about to touch the pinnacle of success, he finds himself hitting a roadblock -- a career-ending physical ailment

SOUNDTRACK can easily be classified as an experiment in creativity. It's a bold move by director Neerav Ghosh who has found willing backers in his generous producers. Not everyone gets a chance to explore the realms of his thoughts and explode on celluloid with such gay abandon as does Neerav and his protagonist Rajeev Khandelwal. With AAMIR, released three years ago, Rajeev stamped his imprint as a quality actor. In SOUNDTRACK, he further endorses that truth

Based on true events, Soundtrack is an official remake of the cult English film ' It's All Gone Pete Tong ' (2004). The film traces the meteoric rise and fall of a DJ, Raunak Kaul (Rajeev Khandelwal) who has the talent to make the world dance to his tunes (quite literally). But an excessive lifestyle of sex and substance abuse, not only makes him lose focus towards work, but also leads to a permanent physical disability. In his world dominated by loud music

He snorts coke, downs tequila shots and smokes like a chimney, all in a day’s work. Raunak Kaul (Rajeev) spins at a club called Tango Charlie and, among other things, mixes electronica with Hindi lyrics – an instant hit among party-goers. Getting Midival Punditz and other independent musicians to do Soundtrack’s score is a smart call – the sound is hatke, and goes well with the mood of the film. Additionally, old film songs like ‘Ruk jaana nahi’

What is it like to be able to hear, and create music, all your life, and suddenly lose the gift? What does it feel like to be hailed as the next best thing one moment, and to be reviled the next? `Soundtrack’ gives us a story (based on a Canadian film, which fact is dutifully part of the end credits) which feels like it is about something : such a relief from the spate of nothing movies that have been infesting our theatres for a while now, even if the result is mixed

These are musicians world-famous, north of Mumbai’s Worli. The front man is the resident DJ at a nightclub called Tango Charlie. When not spinning on the console, his partner’s busy with a groupie going down on him in the greenroom. The hero’s manager (Mohan Kapoor) decodes the gist of their trade: “What’s the best thing about music,” he asks. “Melodies, solo guitars…” says his protégé DJ. “The chicks bro; music is like honey, they're like bees,” enlightens the manager

Slipping further and further into a vortex of drugs, alcohol and meaningless sex, the protagonist of Soundtrack, genius DJ Raunak Kaul (Rajeev Khandelwal), suddenly goes deaf one day. It's an intriguing premise, borrowed legitimately from the Canadian film 'It's All Gone Pete Tong', that itself claimed to be based on a true story. Treated without the requisite pinch of humour or irony, director Neerav Ghosh delivers a boring film that's as indulgent as the character

Soundtrack Review by Komal Nahta. What's Good: The first half; the acting of most of the artistes; the songs.What