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The web space exploded big time in 2020. While the story, theme, execution and performances played a part, another important factor also contributed to the popularity of a show. And that’s the theme song, played during the opening credits. Almost all shows had the said track but only some of them made us listen to the whole tune and not click on ‘Skip intro’ button. In this special feature,
Bollywood Hungama brings to you a list of our favourite web series theme songs of the year.
1. Scam 1992 (Composed by Achint)
This list will be incomplete if this legendary track is not included in the list, that too at the very beginning! Composed by Achint, this track gave an adrenaline rush each and every time one listens to it. We are not surprised that not just the content of the series, but even the theme song has gone viral and has record views on YouTube.
I wish all my readers a happy Christmas season as far as Covid 19 restrictions allow.
In the midst of so much controversy, fear and menace of the pandemic, I thought it best to divert readers’ attention with a huge success story of an excellent film produced from a superb book – Vikram Seth’s 1993, 1,349 paged ‘A Suitable Boy’ about post-Independence India in the 1950s, set in Calcutta and Lucknow, dealing with inter-religious issues and love between Muslims and Hindus. It is one of the longest English-language novels in print and worldwide reviews placed it as one of the best modern literary classics. The title is because the mother of the chief female protagonist is adamantly and determinedly in search of a suitable boy as husband for her university graduated daughter. I admit I am still to read it, but I so enjoyed Seth’s 1999 ‘An Equal Music’ which he autographed for me at a Galle Lit Festival. It was absorbingly interesting though much about western classical mu
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Nobody throws a wedding party like Mira Nair. Her six-part series, A Suitable Boy, opens at a wedding - piles of flower petals, bright saris twirling, brilliant turbans swirled as a bride and groom, who have spent perhaps an hour together total, under the gaze of a chaperone, are joined for life. At a moment of supreme celebration, a young woman, Lata, tells her mother.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, A SUITABLE BOY )
TANYA MANIKTALA: (As Lata Mehra) I don t think I ever want to get married.
MAHIRA KAKKAR: (As Rupa Mehra) What else are you going to do?
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