Shashwat Sachdev wants to take his film scores off the screen and onto a stage, literally. According to Bollywood Hungama, the composer is developing a large-scale live music production that reimagines his work from Phillauri, Uri: The Surgical Strike, The Ba***Ds Of Bollywood and Dhurandhar as a full theatrical musical, the first time any of these scores would be presented in that format.

Nothing here is confirmed by Sachdev or his team yet. Bollywood Hungama is running this as an exclusive built on sources, and its own report notes that representatives for the composer have not commented. So treat the specifics as a tease rather than an announcement, at least for now.

What's being described, per those sources, is ambitious. A production insider quoted in the report called it "a complete re-engineering of how live Indian music is presented on the world stage," describing a setup with more than 100 musicians, an orchestra and a full choir building live wall-of-sound arrangements. The same source pitched it as somewhere between a theatrical musical and an EDM festival, visually and sonically. Whether that translates into ticket-buying reality is a separate question, but the pitch is big.

The report says the show is scheduled to premiere at an international venue first, with an India leg to follow. No city, no date, no promoter has been named.

The Dhurandhar numbers doing the talking

There's a reason a live IP built around Sachdev's catalogue makes commercial sense right now. Bollywood Hungama's report cites figures putting the Dhurandhar soundtrack's streaming ecosystem value at ₹325 crore, and says the album became the first Indian film soundtrack to chart its entire tracklist simultaneously on Spotify's Global Top 200. It reportedly hit No. 1 on Billboard India and No. 2 on Spotify's Top Global Debut chart, with the wider franchise crossing 93 billion YouTube views and 1.3 billion Spotify streams within six months, per the same figures, enough to put Sachdev among the five most-streamed artists in India on the platform.

Sachdev isn't short of other work either. He's on board for Mohanlal's Operation Ganga, continues to be tied to Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar duology, and is coming off a second National Film Award for Article 370 after winning his first for Uri. He's also co-composed on the British series Virdee alongside Hans Zimmer and James Everingham, and picked up international recognition at the ASCAP Screen Awards.

Before any of that musical stage business plays out, there's a nearer date on the calendar. Sachdev is reportedly set to perform at China's Wuxi Arts Music Festival later this year, where he'll present what's being called a special set, separate from the touring musical project.

For now, the live IP remains a tease with no venue, no timeline and no word from Sachdev himself. Whether it turns into an actual production, and whether Bollywood's biggest recent soundtrack can survive being staged live in front of an audience expecting festival-scale spectacle, is the thing to watch for next.