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It's a soundtrack to a charming film which you need to have seen. Dance around to the last track.
This movie is great because it is a great dynamic between 3 brothers who are bad at keeping secrets. It has an optional opening movie (short) with Natalie Portman, which is cool. Also, Owen Wilson is great. Plus, its a great way to see India without actually going there. Also, have the soundtrack. Have a Good ONE.
Also for this reason, you may wish to see the film first to see if you gain any meaningful associations with individual tracks before committing to a download. Please don't balk at the ringing cliché-o-meters when I call this soundtrack "evocative" since Wes Anderson's soundtracks are always appropriate to the settings and themes on display. I submit that you likely WILL find at least some connections (yes, a movie plug).It is, unsurprisingly, heavily weighted towards Indian music, particularly the poppy, Bollywood variety. Beautiful and emotional, the eclectic mix seems to intentionally involve music of a bygone era in settings that suggest no time has passed, when indeed much has. This sense is very real in India, and the tale of three neurotic, self-involved materialists gaining a vague sense of this along with a need to take corrective action through self-awareness makes this soundtrack appropriate to both story and setting.For this reason, I think we can forgive the fact that this is less an original soundtrack than an original collection for a theme. This can drag on one's desire to replay the soundtrack in its entirety since not all of these tracks are easily connected in one's memory to a scene in the film. Notable exceptions are "Title.from.Jalshagar" as the soundtrack to Bill Murray's quirky "chase" cameo in the opening scene, and "Praise Him" which evokes mix of familiarity and now-foreign disconnects the characters experience upon finding their mother in a remote Indian orphanage.
Great movie and soundtrack. You should be aware that if you download the single "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) by Peter Sarstedt, from Itunes, for example, you will NOT get the same song as featured in the film. You must buy the soundtrack to get the film's version of the song, which features accordian music, a faster tempo, and a better vocal by Sarstedt. I recommend the soundtrack version.
Wonderful. It is not only a very persuasive soundtrack (of an excellent movie) but a review of some of the best Hindu Movies Music ever made.
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