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Walt Disney Records Releases World’s Best Soundtrack Music By Raashi Kulkarni and Jongnic Botnemps

Walt Disney Records Releases World’s Best Soundtrack
Music By Raashi Kulkarni and Jongnic Botnemps

Walts Disney Records is excited to announce the release of World’s Best Soundtrack with music by Raashi Kulkarni and Jongnic Bontemps.

World's Best Original Soundtrack featuring original songs written by lead actor and co-writer Utkarsh Ambudkar and Charlie Wilder with the score composed by Raashi Kulkarni ('Wedding Season') and Jongnic Bontemps ('Transformers: Rise of the Beasts') is available now.

About World's Best

In the midst of navigating the tumultuous hardships of adolescence, 12-year-old mathematics genius Prem Patel discovers his recently deceased father was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to pursue a career for himself as a rap superstar. While his recent actions may appear reckless and the quickest way for him to lose everything, Prem, empowered by imaginative hip- hop music-fueled fantasies where he performs with his father, is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA. As his father always used to say, “the world’s best never rest.”

'World's Best' is now streaming on Disney+.

About Raashi Kulkarni

Raashi Kulkarni is a composer and pianist based in Los Angeles. She has established a distinct compositional voice that can be heard across a variety of genres including drama, comedy, adventure, animation, and action.
Raashi’s global perspective, study of different music disciplines, and passion for storytelling have been instrumental in the compositions she has developed for a vast spectrum of film and television projects. Kulkarni is one of eight composers and the first person of Indian origin to be selected for the Universal Composers Initiative, developed by NBCUniversal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion group partnered with Universal Global Film Music.
Her latest scoring work includes Netflix’s Wedding Season, the award-winning documentary Barefoot Empress, and the upcoming Disney+ film, World's Best. Raashi, with Blake Neely, composed additional music for over 150 episodes on series such as the CW’s Supergirl,
Arrow, The Flash, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
For DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, she composed and orchestrated the DC Universe’s first Bollywood-inspired musical. In addition to film and television scoring, Raashi is a globally recognized musical artist. Her two independent albums, Raashi (2018) and Afterglow (2020), debuted at #1 and #2, respectively, on the iTunes World Music Charts.

Kulkarni is a voting member of the Television Academy and Recording Academy and currently serves on both the Membership and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committees for the latter. She is also currently serving as Executive Director of the Alliance for Women Film Composers.

In the last decade, Raashi has performed in concert tours across the globe with several prominent artists from the United States and India, including world-renowned Bollywood composers, Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani.
She has performed as a featured pianist at the Shrine Auditorium, Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Museum, Patriot Center, Warner Theatre, Kodak Hall, and more.
Her YouTube piano covers, which are arranged solely by ear, have been discovered and recognized by iHeartRadio, On Air with Ryan Seacrest, Capitol Records (as part of Beck’s successful GRAMMY campaign), YouTube India, and Pharrell Williams’ partnership with The United Nations Foundation.


About Jongnic Bontemps

Jongnic “JB” Bontemps is a uniquely modern film composer tapped by Paramount Pictures to score the blockbuster, sci-fi action movie Transformers: Rise of the Beasts starring Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Michelle Yeoh for director and longtime collaborator Steven Caple Jr.
JB is known for his fusion of contemporary sound with timeless emotion. He became the go-to composer for director Steven Caple Jr. while scoring his coming-of-age drama The Land, for which he also orchestrated the song “This Bitter Land” performed by Nas and Erykah Badu.
The two then went on to collaborate on the acclaimed film Creed II, for which JB provided rousing additional music. JB's music can most recently be heard in the Netflix romantic comedy Wedding Season, the CW sci-fi series 4400, and the dramatic feature Last Night in Rozzie directed by Sean Gannet.
His soon-to-be-released projects include two for Disney+: the feature film World’s Best for director Roshan Sethi and the 6-part series Choir for director Rudy Valdez, as well as the Arkane Studios horror video game Redfall and Jagged Mind for director Kelley Kali.

JB has lent his talents to a number of critically acclaimed documentary projects. He initially became known for his hip-hop infused score for the Tribeca-favorite documentary United Skates and has since gone on to collaborate with multiple award- winning documentarians on their projects, including Julie Cohen and Betsey West’s feature film My Name Is Pauli Murray; his work for which was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award.
His other documentary projects include the CNN special The People vs. The Klan, director Sam Pollard’s films Citizen Ashe and Reopening Night, the Netflix documentary projects Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story and We Are: The Brooklyn Saints, and Shonda Rhimes’ Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker.

JB has scored dozens of features, series and video games in all genres, including the Lifetime biopic Clarke Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, the Toni Braxton-led drama, Faith Under Fire, the Sundance selection Leimert Park produced by Charles King (Mudbound), the BET+ original series Boomerang, and additional music for the Epix series Godfather of Harlem starring Forest Whitaker and the award-winning game Call of Duty WWII.
JB’s scores have echoed at Cannes, the Warsaw Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, and the American Black Film Festival, as well as at home on Netflix, CNN, HBO, BET, Lifetime, NBC, Showtime, Netflix, PBS and Disney XD.

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More info at: Composer Raashi Kulkarni Official Site

More info at: Composer Jongnic Bontemps Official Site

Walt Disney Records presents the soundtrack for the Disney+ movie World’s Best. The album fcontains the songs from the film written by Utkarsh Ambudkar and Charlie Wilder and the score composed by Raashi Kulkarni

Walt Disney Records presents the soundtrack for the Disney+ movie World’s Best. The album fcontains the songs from the film written by Utkarsh Ambudkar and Charlie Wilder and the score composed by Raashi Kulkarni

The soundtrack is available digitally since June 23, 2023.

World’s Best is directed by Roshan Sethi with Utkarsh Ambudkar, Charlie Wilder, Manny Magnus, Punam Patel, Jake Choi, Max Malas, Dorian Giordano, Kayla Njeri, Piper Wallace, Christopher Jackson, Kathryn Greenwood and Doug E. Fresh.

In “World’s Best,” 12-year-old mathematics genius Prem Patel (Magnus), in the midst of navigating the tumultuous hardships of adolescence, discovers his recently deceased father was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to pursue a career for himself as a rap superstar.
While his actions may appear reckless and the quickest way for him to lose everything, Prem, empowered by imaginative hip-hop music-fueled fantasies where he performs with his father (Ambudkar), is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA. As his father always used to say, “the world’s best never rest.”

More info at: Official Web Site Disney +

More info at: Official Web Site Disney +