Shootout at Wadala and Jazbaa, every twitch of the eyebrow or gnash of the teeth appears to have been accompanied by a 100-piece orchestra. Like his contemporary Julius Packiam, Mohile specialises in action dramas and has a recognisable sonic signature comprising stacked orchestras, heavy guitar riffs and blaring horns. Mohile owes his rise to Ram Gopal Varma. Until the 2000s, Varma’s films about gangsters and ghouls had some measure of quietude. But following Sandeep Chowta’s seminal score for Satya (1998), Varma became obsessed with punctuating every scene with an exaggerated soundscape. The baton passed from Chowta to Mohile, and the decibel levels of the background music shot up.