Sidhant Mathur, who has composed music and background score for both seasons of Netflix’s Jamtara – Sabka Number Aayega, talked about his musical process.
Explaining how Jamtara’s music was born, he says, “Since we were short on time, we had made a schedule which was to be strictly followed. Almost every sequence in the series was given a deadline by when it should be composed and completed. There were however a few scenes which took extra long to be cracked. One such scene was in Episode 5 of season 2 which now looks like a very simple piece of music but it emotionally drained us. It set the whole schedule back by 3 days which luckily we were able to catch up on.”
As for the challenging parts, he added, “Both the seasons of Jamtara have been very challenging. The main challenge of Season 1 was to create this new sonic world of Jamtara. We discarded many ideas before we took the approach of scoring emotions. The second season had to be bigger, better and grander in every way. So it brought even more challenges.”
Sharing about the making of Hasot Liye, a song in the series, Sidhant says, “According to the brief, it was supposed to be a fun, peppy and uplifting song in the background of a wedding scene with street style vocals narrating the situation of the entire phishing scam of Jamtara. The song went through many name changes before we finally decided to call it Hasot Liye. There are some songs that we work over time and they evolve into the final versions as we hear them. But Hasot Liye, unlike those kinds of tracks, was born the day it was written.”
Sharing about his personal life and his upbringing, Sidhant says that he took to performing music through high school and college taking part in bands and musicals playing guitar and bass. He went to Toronto in 2003 to study Audio Engineering and Technology which added the key layer of a producer’s perspective to his music. He has been a part of countless independent music albums and productions (Shilpa Rao, Parikrama, Indian Ocean, Mrigya, Faridkot to name a few) as a Producer and Engineer from Quarter Note Studios, New Delhi which he co-founded in 2006.
Apart from indulging in theater, radio, independent artist production, live performance and engineering on international stages, he has composed music for the critically acclaimed Hindi Feature Films: Children of War (2014) (Raima Sen, Farooq Sheikh, Pawan Malhotra), Budhia Singh – Born to Run (2016 and winner of the National Award for Best Children’s Film)(Manoj Bajpai, Gajaraj Rao, Tillotama Shome) and short films: Paroksh (Drishyam Films, Youtube), Bete (Drishyam Films, Youtube) and Madhyantara, Mannat (MX Player).
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