Spryk's New Single Brings The Grandeur Of Retro Bollywood To Electronic Dance Music

The melodrama and decadence of retro Bollywood filled rooms with sweeping strings, grand brass sections, and theatrical choral flourishes. It was a sound designed to heighten emotion and turn even the simplest phrase into a spectacle. The music was called evergreen for a reason — rich orchestration, sitar and harmonium textures, and percussion that could move from tender to thunderous in an instant. The grandeur of cinema back then expressed through sound, and it became a defining feature of films from 60s through 90s on screen.

Spryk’s latest release, 'Angrywalk', taps into that world, reimagining it through the lens of modern electronic music. The track builds on the melodicism of vintage soundtracks and then ruptures into an unexpected beat switch. What begins as cinematic and familiar quickly mutates into something jagged and restless, a fusion of old-world sensibilities with contemporary dancefloor energy.

Tejas Nair, who goes by Spryk, is known for his works acros audio-visual performances, installations and club sets, consistently folding Indian musical textures into a broader electronic framework. His approach feels like reconstruction; staging pieces of India’s sonic heritage inside modern electronic architecture.

In 'Angrywalk', he plays on the nostalgia of Bollywood’s golden years by intersecting it with trap, bass, dubstep and breakbeats. Strings and melodic hooks, once vehicles for romance or tragedy, become reframed as a thematic contrast. He also samples the voice of Amrish Puri, lifting a dialogue from 'Jeet' (1996). Puri, known for his charismatic and antagonistic roles, lends the track a touch of the same menace and theatrics that once dominated cinema screens. The accompanying visualiser by Shishir, evoke the aesthetics of that era; black & white frames, slow motion and vignettes all fold back into the music’s movie-ready impulses while the production remixes those impulses for a modern club context.

In an electronic music landscape often defined by uniformity, Angrywalk stands out with a sound that is unmistakably Indian — cinematic, bold, and rhythmically unpredictable. It nods to the heritage of Hindi cinema while carving out space for a distinct voice in global dance music.

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