I am a hunter
She want to see my gun
When I pull it out
Woman started run
So the hunter is out there, complaining and singing that ‘she wants his gun.' Don't believe it? Which hunter? He comes from Wasseypur and you can listen to him in Gangs of Wasseypur , the latest from Anuraag Kashyap's kitty.
The movie starring Jaideep Ahlawat, Manoj Bajpai, Nawazzuddin Siddiqui and Richa Chadda will be screened at the 2012 Director's Fortnight an independently-curated, non-competitive event which runs concurrently in Cannes Film festival.
And while most of the team is in Cannes, TV and radio listeners are not getting enough of this song which is being aired in most music channels as the trailer of the movie.
What catches the attention is the style, words and the distinct use of folk and rural instruments. Sang by Vedesh Sookoo, Rajneesh, Shyyamoo and Munna the lyrics of the title have been penned by Varun Grover. Recorded in the Chutney music theme the song has almost become viral.
Music director Anoop Rubens says, “It is a very novel way of introducing music which is less known to people. Besides giving the industry a new theme, it also gives due recognition to the style which might have its origin in either folk or rural.”
Rubens also adds that it is only movies which can make new music genres popular. “Albums usually fail to create the charm that music in movies succeeds in doing.”
While everyone is enjoying the song and discussing it on social media, it's also talk about the theme in which it is recorded. I am a hunter is recorded in the Chutney Music theme which has its roots in the Indo-Carribean. Chutney music is contemporary fusion of genres created by Indo-Carribean people whose ancestors belonged to places like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and South India. Established in the 1940s within temples, wedding houses, and cane fields, Chutney music became popular in 1968.
The Chutney Music is up-tempo song, accompanied by electric guitar, synthesizer, dholak harmonium and dhantal. In the 1980s, Chutney music saw more evolution . The modern chutney artist writes lyrics in either Hindi, Bhojpuri or English and then lays it on top of beats that come from Indian beats from the dholak mixed with the Soca beat.
So is this the new step to introducing folk or rural music in Hindi movies? Singer and composer, Angaraag Papon Mahanta however says, “Folk and rural music have been the base of Hindi movie music since for long—say almost four decades. R.D. Burman used a lot of folk, used Assamese music here and there in his composition. Again Himachali folk music has been widely used. People are talking about it now because of the availability of information and the means to share information. There was probably one decade during the late 80s when folk music was silenced.”
