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Singing with the hipsters
Updated On: 02 September, 2012 10:36 AM IST | | Suhit Kelkar
The music of Gangs of Wasseypur 1 and 2 is not only different ufffd courtesy its brave composers, it also meanders between rustic exhibitionism and crossover cool. Suhit Kelkar decodes the hipster chic tunes of the two films that are making waves
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Hipsterism, with self-conscious irony, is an urban, elite niche in India, that wonderland of in your face, loudspeaker-blaring, exhibitionist earnestness. Most hipsters in entertainment tone down their hipsterism — MTV, for example. But Sneha Khanwalkar is a unicorn, a crossover hipster who has defined a brand new niche.
The songs in Gangs of Wasseypur I and II are shape-shifting in context. Deliberately so — a hipster would treat most of them as tongue-in-cheek, but a conventional audience will take them at face value. No doubt Khanwalkar, who cleaves to the artistic credo of universality, is cool with that. Besides, the universal appeal fits in with the hipster sensibility, which delights in irony.
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