The offline for Bad Boy Billionaires spanned a year and I was involved writing music for the whole series throughout this process, working with 4 directors and editors who each wanted a totally different score for their films !

In the end, the Vijay Mallya film set the tone musically and stylistically for the other films and I ended up writing a much more cohesive thematic score that worked across the series, but still had differences to illustrate the individual personalities of each billionaire.
With Mallya, the arc of the first third of the film is full of optimism. Musically, we veered towards a more modern minimalism style to reflect the industrious young business man and his early days.

I utilised plucked stringed instruments and electric guitars for the vibrant energetic build of the business.
I also wrote vibrant ethnic influenced cues with contemporary beats and orchestral undertones to bring a sense of modernity and energy to his journey.

The second act of the film is when it all starts going wrong for Mallya and the music had to reflect this shift in tone.
I injected dynamic tension that had a sense of drive to keep the narrative and momentum going
but everything starts becoming twisted so I brought in textured orchestral elements.

The final act is when the story spirals out of control and so does the music. When the Kingfisher airline starts to collapse the music has a serious gravitas to it.

The music becomes more symphonic and orchestral, almost operatic to illustrate the epic downfall and fall from grace of this larger than life character.

"Yes, the footage and information shown in the docu-series are available around, but how many of us still have really gone through all of them. Isn’t it good to have them compiled with Nainita Desai’s controlled-yet-thumping background score, making it feel like you’re watching a feature film?"

Koimoi.com Review

“a dramatic background musical score”

the print.in Review