Gehraiyaan: OAFF’s Bollywood debut in Deepika Padukone’s Gehraiyaan has given India reason to celebrate local music talent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “At some point, someone paid me to produce music for them, so I was like, ‘Wow I get paid to do this’,” he says, adding that was probably when his transition to OAFF began. I can have fun with it.” “Doobey”, from recent Bollywood film Gehraiyaan, was performed, composed and written by Kathpalia, his music partner Savera, celebrated sound director Ankur Tewari and upcoming singer Lothika. “They’ve been doing some really exciting work in the independent scene in India.” Tewari revealed that he and Gehraiyaan director Shakun Batra “headhunted” Kathpalia and Savera for the Deepika Padukone-starring film. It didn’t feel like they were working on their first feature, it felt like they had done this many times before.” open image in gallery Kabeer Kathpalia aka OAFF In the last couple of years, an increasing number of independent music artists have created scores for big budget Bollywood films.