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NEK
"Mangesh Dhakde's background score exudes "chills" in every literal scene. It goes brutally unnoticed because of all the chaos happening on-screen, but I can still hear those typewriter clicks in my mind." Umesh Punwani - KoiMoi.com, May 2022
"Anek is a film that could have tested your patience had it not been for its stunning original background score which elevates the pace of the narrative even in some conversational films. There is a lot to be admired and learned int the way the score is created and used in the film." Celebstial, May 2022
THAPPAD
"Mangesh Urmila Dhakde's background score is magnificient." - Bollywood Hungama News Network, February 2020
"The triumph of Thappad is also the triumph of tonal perfection. ...the cinematography... as well as Mangesh Dhakde's background score create a distinct mood for each of the women and their episodic excursion from Victim to Survivor to Hero." - Subhash K. Jha, IWM Buzz, February 2020
ARTICLE 15
LET'S BE INDIANS
FIRSTY AND LASTLY
"The background score too will keep you on the edge of your seat." - Shibaji Roychoudhari, Times Now, June 2019
The film is heavy on atmospherics, with the top notch cinematography and background score adding to the mood." - Sreeparna Sengupta, Times Of India, June 2019
"Where Article 15 really kills it with music is in its astounding use of "Vande Mataram". Twice. And both times I had to stifle sobs because the placement of the song in the narrative rips right through the agenda of hate being peddled by extremists currently appropriating "Vande Mataram." - Anna MM Vetticad, Firstpost, June 2019
Lipstick
UNDER MY
BURKHA
"When combined with... Mangesh Dhakde's carefully conceived, supremely entertaining background score, the narrative flows with remarkable ease." - Anna MM Vetticad, Firstpost, July 2017
"...but the background score really holds the movie and supports the visuals perfectly." - Meghana Pawar, BollywoodMDB, July 2017
BHO
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" Mangesh Dhakde's music also finds its apogee in these sequences, as it highlights the sense the director wants to give to each one, with the track included in the scene where Dhavle and Mastur meet being the most memorable, filling the scene with a sense of danger emitting from the latter." - Panos Kotzathanasis, Asian Movie Pulse, September 13, 2018
