Qala (Music from the Netflix Film) is the soundtrack accompanying the 2022 film of the same name released on 11 November 2022 by Sony Music India. The album featured six tracks — five of them being composed by Amit Trivedi and the sixth song guest composed by Sagar Desai, who also scored the film's background music. Lyrics for the songs were written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Swanand Kirkire, Varun Grover, Kausar Munir, Anvitaa Dutt and excerpts from Sant Kabir's poems being included. Since the film is set in the 1940s, Dutt and Trivedi had to use ethnic classical instrumentation entirely to reflect that period. The album received rave response from music critics and listeners. Background Qala is set in the 1940s, which was the early days of the Hindi film industry. Trivedi had challenged to create melodies that feels true to the vintage Hindi film music, but not old-fashioned to the contemporary music listeners. Hence, to prepare for the score, he listened to the musical works of C. Ramchandra, S. D. Burman and Naushad, though he had not inspired a particular composer or an album. His focus is mainly, how he was going to do justice to the story, that Dutt had written, as "it is a mother-daughter story, and there’s a real haunting quality to it". In an interview to Swati Chopra of The Quint, when asked about the soundtrack being inspired from the music of Guru Dutt's filmography, Dutt denied the same as "We never specifically talked about any particular director or composer while working on the songs because we didn't want anybody to be influenced. We only spoke about the character and the story." The songs were composed within three days when Trivedi was on a staycation in Goa, with Dutt and lyricist Swanand Kirkire. Though in an interview, Trivedi admitting on how it was hard to compose for retro-classical style of music, he completed scoring for the album in a short span of time. Initially, the narration of the script went for a day, whereas the scoring process took place within two days. Trivedi, while launching his debut studio album Jadu Salona in Spotify, Trivedi admitted that he almost gave up on scoring the film, but turned back and composed the score for the film. To match the story and setting of early 1940s, the soundtrack was devoid of electronic instruments and Trivedi mostly used accordion, tabla,