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The Mother's Song is perhaps the most unusual piece in The Mehta Boys (2025, Amazon Prime Video) soundtrack — a choral composition performed by the celebrated Shillong Chamber Choir, composed by three musicians from Meghalaya (Ibarisha Lyngdoh, Keviseno Terhuja, Riewbankit Lyndem), with lyrics by Bhargav Purohit. In a film about a father-son relationship defined by the absent mother — who has died before the story begins — this song is the acoustic representation of that absence: performed by a world-renowned choir from Northeast India, it carries a transcendent, non-commercial quality rare in Bollywood soundtracks.

The Shillong Chamber Choir, founded by Neil Nongkynrih, is one of India's finest choral ensembles — known internationally for their crystalline vocal blend and emotional depth. Their contribution to The Mehta Boys soundtrack lends it a gravitas unusual for mainstream Hindi film music. The three composers from Meghalaya bring Northeast India's distinctive musical traditions into the composition, creating a sound that is deeply Indian yet entirely distinct from the Bollywood mainstream.

Bhargav Purohit's lyrics for The Mother's Song are written to serve as a sacred address — words that speak across the boundary between the living and the absent. The choral setting gives the lyrics a communal dimension: this is not one person's grief but a shared mourning.

Boman Irani's choice to bring the Shillong Chamber Choir — musicians from Meghalaya in Northeast India — into a Mumbai family drama reflects the film's ambition to reach beyond Bollywood conventions for its emotional expression. The composers (Lyngdoh, Terhuja, Lyndem) are from the Khasi musical tradition, bringing a quality of devotional seriousness rarely heard in commercial Hindi cinema.

The Mother's Song marks one of the most distinctive uses of Northeast Indian musical talent in a mainstream Bollywood production — a bridge between India's choral traditions and its commercial film music ecosystem.