KGF 1 & 2 are an amalgamation of visuals and stellar BGM, paired with Neel’s commercial taking. The theme music of KGF is a rage and it played a pivotal role in the cinematic triumph of the two-part franchise. Music director Ravi Barsur excelled at his job and was rightly appreciated for his good work.
But Ravi Barsur has put on a disaster show in Salaar. His background score and sound mixing are shockingly inadequate for a film of Salaar’s scale.
There is no winning theme music for Salaar. Let alone the goosebump-inducing theme of KGF, Salaar doesn’t even have a piqued music that the audience will at least remember after coming out of the theater. The poor mixing didn’t help the cause one bit either.
The disparity in visual and audio is unacceptable for a mass film like Salaar. For instance, when we get to see the full 6’3″ cutout of Prabhas rocking the interval block, the BGM doesn’t have the needed punch. The disparity in visual and BGM is too much to accept.
The BGM gets comparatively better in the second half when needed the most. Ravi’s better work comes here. But perhaps, he needed to concentrate more on a flagship tune to create branding for Salaar, more so given that this is a two-part film and having a winning theme music could’ve worked wonderfully for the second part.
Now this is leading to a comment that KGF is a one-time wonder from the musical standpoint of Ravi after seeing his work for Salaar. A lot was expected of him to deliver punching and ear-splitting BGM for Prabhas but that is not the case.
