India, April 24 -- Most of us couldn't name a bass player if our lives depended on it (Flea? Sting? Paul McCartney?). Narrow that down to Indian bass players and you're really in niche-of-a-niche territory. And yet, when the Dhurandhar 1 and 2 soundtracks dropped in 2025 and 2026, music lovers just knew - that has to be Mohini Dey. The minute that dum-dum-dum-da-da-dum-dum kicks in on Ishq Jalakar, you're locked in. It's doing as much heavy lifting as Ranveer Singh on screen.

Bass, as musicians will tell you, is the low, deep, intimate part of a composition. It rumbles, never trills. And while the drums keep the beat, the bass (typically on guitar) forms the foundation of the sound. It's the iconic boom-boom-boom in Queen's Another One B...