Farhan, Shankar Mahadevan began bonding when he, Zoya helmed ‘Breathless’ video
Farhan Akhtar directed movies at all times have one factor as fixed – good music. The broad vary of the songs from earworms, pacy tracks, romantic numbers, the melancholy, the inspirational tracks or the dance numbers, his movies at all times have the whole lot by way of a consolidated soundtrack.
How does he handle to include such brilliance in his soundtracks? Effectively to say that the musical crew of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy are one of many strongest pillars of Akhtar’s movie, received’t be improper.
Be it the brand new age ‘Koi Kahe’ from ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ that exploded on the golf equipment in 2001, the Sonu Nigam crooned ‘Tanhayee’, the phrases of which (written by Farhan Akhtar’s father, the legendary Javed Akhtar) may ship a shiver down your lonesome backbone, ‘Kandhon Se Milte Hain Kandhe’ from ‘Lakshya’ that fills you with satisfaction for our nationwide heroes or ‘Zara Dil Ko Thaam Lo’ from ‘Don 2’ which oozes flamboyance completely in sync with Shah Rukh Khan’s allure, the soundtracks of his movies have one thing for everybody.
When Farhan Akhtar directed the video of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ alongside together with his sister, filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, he didn’t know that he was about to strike a friendship with Mahadevan that may change the face of Hindi movie music.
Farhan Akhtar informed IANS, “Shankar and I first met when Zoya and I directed the music video of ‘Breathless’, this was someplace round 1998 and that’s when a friendship that may go on for many years fashioned”.
Farhan Akhtar teamed up with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for the music of his directorial debut ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, a movie that modified the panorama of Hindi cinema within the early 2000s with its city storytelling, styling and naturally the music which has stood the take a look at of time even after 22 years now.
The director-musician-actor additional talked about, “Shankar and I’ve been working collectively for 23 years now and I have to say that I consider him and his household as an extension of my very own. I’ve a lot respect for him as an individual and as a musical genius that he’s”.
“And with him, it by no means seems like working, it’s enjoyable to jam with him as a result of he brings a lot to the desk”, he added.
Farhan Akhtar, who is thought for lending his voice to tracks similar to ‘Tum Ho Tum’, ‘Picchle Saat Dinon Mein’ and plenty of others, will probably be acting at this 12 months’s VH1 SuperSonic music competition.
When requested about what’s one of the best factor about performing in entrance of a dwell viewers, he mentioned, “There’s nothing higher for an artist than participating with a dwell viewers and performing in entrance of them. There’s a lot lively give and take between the performer and the viewers in that second that it may hardly be put into phrases.”
He added, “It’s an expertise that solely the stage can convey. I like to see the expression of pleasure and happiness on the faces of my viewers at one thing that I dwell to see as an artist. Once I’m on stage I don’t put extreme ideas into my efficiency. I simply drift, I mould my efficiency in keeping with the temper of the viewers and that’s what appeals to me as I mentioned, to gauge the temper of the viewers, their feelings and the area that they’re in.”
Sharing with IANS the set checklist for his gig, he mentioned, “We will probably be enjoying songs from ‘Echoes’ the album that I launched three years in the past. There may also be new tracks as effectively there will probably be different additions to the checklist which will probably be extra spontaneous going by the temper of the gang.”
The director-musician-actor additionally feels that the Web has largely helped the artiste neighborhood although there’s much more that may be executed.
“The Web has helped the music neighborhood to bypass the wrestle of going by way of music labels. You log into any audio streaming platform and you can be stunned to discover such a big pool of expertise who are usually not related to any label however their music has the facility to maneuver the viewers throughout bodily borders. So the Web has actually empowered the artwork and the artistes, extra so the impartial artistes although we nonetheless have a protracted option to go”, he signed off.
Farhan Akhtar will probably be performing dwell on the VH1 SuperSonic music competition together with different skills similar to Anne-Marie, CKay, Prateek Kuhad and others. Vh1 Supersonic 2023 will probably be held at Mahalakshmi Lawns, Pune from February 24 by way of February 26. Followers in Bengaluru can watch two of the headliners from the primary competition on February 24.
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