The slick action thriller features fresh takes on classic tracks

There are a couple of things that distinguish music director Shashwat Sachdev’s soundtrack for Dhurandhar from the standard Hindi film OST. There’s the astute use of English-language Indian rappers Hanumankind and Reble to fire up the anthemic numbers. Plus, it takes classic Bollywood and Punjabi folk tunes and does more than just slap on electronic beats and new verses to ‘recreate’ them. Sachdev digs into record label Saregama’s vast catalogue to sample songs from the 1960s through to the ’90s into bilingual electro and hip-hop bangers that are as stylish as the film’s slick action sequences.