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Sania's Glass Ceiling indiascopeindiascope SEEDHI BAAT ON AAJ TAK FIELD OF VISION SHARDA UGRA “Today people want instant success” Sania’s Glass Ceiling SINGER ALKA YAGNIK SPOKE TO EDITOR PRABHU CHAWLA By the time this appears, Sania Mirza could about her music, the industry and how it has changed have been knocked out of the US Open. Or Q. Why are you fighting with the other judges of Star she could still be in the singles draw at Voice of India? Flushing Meadows, sending India’s collec- A. I’m not fighting; it’s just an argument. Everyone is tive pulse skyrocketing. Either way it emotionally charged in Star Voice of India. doesn’t matter. Mirza’s future is not linked Q. Which was your first song? to either her ranking or to her fate at the last Grand Slam A. In Payal Ki Jhankar I had sung only four lines. My of the year. Her fate is tied to her next step up the ladder. first real song was a duet in Hamari Bahu Alka. But my Well after she made that ladder seem human-scale for first popular song was Kalyanji-Anandji’s Mere angne all Indian girls, it continues to test her. mein. I was just 15 years old then. Mirza’s place in Indian tennis history is safe, sealed. Q. Why did you sing Choli ke peeche? The real worth of what happens next will be understood A. I am a shy person, but Laxmikantji told me that as acutely only by the sassy player and her family. She is an artist I have to forget everything to sing this song. He now playing the kind of tennis where, on a good day, she also said that the song was not for a vamp but Madhuri can beat most women players in the top 20. Most, not all. Dixit would perform on it. To churn up the ‘creamy layer’ that sits atop the women’s Q. Earlier, actors were identified by the voices of game—the Williams’, Maria Sharapova, Justine Henin, singers. Is that missing now? will take everything she owns and then some. A. Yes. Earlier, only four or five actors dominated the Mirza has broken down many doors, but this hap- industry. But now we have many actors and singers. So pens to be the strongest one. Father Imran, who has the work has been divided MANDAR DEODHAR planned her career meticulously and independently, says and distributed. that she is most “capable of Q. People compare a stray win” against the top you with Lata five players but will need to Mangeshkar. improve “quite a bit before A. Please don’t com- she is ready to beat them pare me with Lata regularly”. ‘Regularly’ im- Mangeshkar. She is a plies joining their company. great singer. People com- Mirza has shown enor- pare me with her just to mous will to come back make me happy. from a career-threatening Q. You started your knee injury and surgery. career singing for the She took to a strenuous radio. Then you sang physical regime with a re- bhajans and ghazals. solve that surprised even SAURABH SINGH A. My mother is a her parents. The results were evident on the US hard classical singer. I always wanted to become a playback courts as, leaner and quicker to the ball, she came raging singer. When I was five I started singing bhajans on radio back into India’s consciousness again. With five wins over in Kolkata. In my entire career, I’ve sung ghazals only for top-20 players since the end of July, Mirza has earned J.P. Dutta’s Umraao Jaan. more street cred on road and a seeding into the US Open. Q. What kind of songs do you like? What is under examination now is whether the hard- A. I like melodious, semi-classical and romantic songs. court run has stoked just hunger and ambition, or also However, some of my item songs such as Ek do teen and the appetite for more hard labour. After five fairly fruit- Chamma chamma are very popular. ful years on the pro tour, Lindsay Davenport gave herself Q. Why is the music industry in a mess today? to a tougher fitness routine and went from a good top 10 A. Today people believe in instant success. Music player to a three-time Grand Slam title winner and four- should be eternal but these days it is short-lived. Music time finalist. Even today, Justine Henin puts her 5-ft directors like Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Naushad were our 5-inch, 57-kg frame through punishing physical work to pillars. But we still have good music directors like keep up with the power players. Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin-Lalit, Anu Malik and A.R. For Mirza, the push upward will be tougher than Rehman. Their music and songs are evergreen. anything she has ever attempted before. It will require a Seedhi Baat is telecast on Aaj Tak at 8.30 p.m. Grandmaster’s forward-thinking, a monk’s discipline every Sunday and 3.30 p.m. every Monday and a gambler’s daring. If ever we wanted to know what Full text of the interview at: Sania Mirza was all about, we will find out now. 18 INDIA TODAY N SEPTEMBER 10, 2007.
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