“Unlike the film which is bound by a common theme, the music of the film doesn’t need to conform to any such thing. Since the songs express various emotions, it was interesting to experiment with different types of sounds,” says Jeet Ganguly, who has composed two songs, the opening and the closing track, for the film. “While Tere Bina is a soulful sufi-folk tune with a very baul feel to it, Aa Laut Aa is a rock track that is written on a very high scale,” says Ganguly, who entered as a duo with music director Pritam in 2000 before starting off alone three years later. He has blended a variety of instruments including the ektara with live percussions for the tracks.

Besides Ganguly, artists like Ali Azmat, Shafqat Amanat Ali and band 'Fuzon' from Pakistan have joined forces with Indian musicians that include bands like the 'Indian Ocean' and 'Euphoria', besides new composers like Papon and Amartya Sen.

Delhi-based Papon aka Angaraag Mahanta, who debuts into mainstream Bollywood with Mumbai Cutting is otherwise a lead vocalist of 'East India Company', a folktronic (Folk meets electronica) outfit and already has two Assamese album to his credit. He is currently working on his first Hindi album besides other Bollywood projects. While he has sung for Ganguly, he has also composed a track, Madhoshi in the movie. Even Ali Azmat, former lead vocalist of Pakistani group 'Junoon' too has composed a hard rock number for Rahul Dholakia’s film besides singing one number.

Featuring all the songs in a movie that has 11 stories to tell, has not been possible. For instance, the melancholic track Laage Na Jiya composed by Pakistani band 'Fuzon' only comes as a promotional item. “It took us two days to compose it and it’s a very soulful number,” says Imran Momina, who plays the keyboard for the band.

But in certain films, the music fills up as dialogue. Manish Jha’s film And It Rained... has a nine-minute track, Jiya Jaye Na by 'Euphoria' that replaces dialogues and becomes the idiom of the film. Sung by Palash Sen and Shreya Ghoshal, the track effortlessly moves between a folk ballad and a qawwali with overtones of rock. Tune in and indulge!