Masala is a culinary term meaning mixture or spice but is also used to describe the multifaceted plot structures of Bollywood films. Masala typically refers to the juxtaposition of elements from comedy, drama, thriller, and fantasy genres, leading to complex plotlines and wide viewership. Scholarship on Bollywood films tends to focus on music and dance elements as meaning making mechanisms while placing less emphasis on technical processes such as audio recording. This article proposes that the audio mixing in the film Sholay is just as multifaceted as the plot-line and is integral to the masala aesthetic. An introduction to Sholay and literature discussing technological processes within the Bollywood film industry will be used to situate the analysis of panning, reverb, and distortion in the film’s soundtrack. The term “masala mixing” will be presented to refer to the ways in which the storyline is enhanced through the use of varying audio effects. This study allows for the film to be viewed more as a complete entity rather than through its constituent parts and redirects value to the hidden labor of recording studios.