© 2006-2017 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. -Nihar Hitesh [email protected] - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU MUMBAI FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2018 SHOWCASE 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE INTERVIEW | RAHAT FATEH ALI KHAN Tuning in with <> All compositions of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan are spellbinding. I was very young when I rst sang it Rahat Fateh with Khansaab. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Ali Khan Singer wood due to their professional­ ism. Bollywood has a global reach The singer’s latest Bollywood ballad hence the promotion of Bolly­ ‘Ishtehaar’ in the lm, Welcome To New York wood songs is more. There are al­ so a great number of NRIs who is a detour from how his voice is being consume Bollywood content. A utilised in trendy versions few Pakistani songs I have sung are also very popular amongst Manish Gaekwad How did your latest song, them as well. ‘Ishtehaar’ in the lm Welcome To New York, come about? Which Bollywood song would Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has been I Music director Shamir Tandon you say has been your most singing in Bollywood since 2003, brought the song to me. The lyr­ memorable till date? when actor­producer Pooja Bhatt ics are dierent and the song is es­ I The song ‘Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji’ introduced him to the Indian au­ pecially written according to the from the lm Ishqiya (2010). It is dience by including two tracks in plot of the lm and depicts the in­ dierent and unique in every as­ perormed by Khan in the sound­ tensity of the situation. My co­sin­ pect. It is still a hot favourite in track of Paap. ger Dhvani Bhanushali compli­ my concerts across the globe. A veteran who has performed ments the track with her voice. over a 100 Hindi lm songs, last Is there any song of yours that year his voice was used in a remix Last year you had a very big hit you feel didn’t get the popularity Mere Rashq­E­Qamar (Baadsha­ in India, ‘Mere Rashk-e-Qamar’ in it deserved? ho) that became a sensation . The Baadshaho. I The song ‘Aye Khuda’ in Rocky the lm Do you Heartfelt music: ‘Mann Ki Lagan’ from Paap (2003) was the singer’s foray into Bollywood. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT craze for remixes extends to re­ remember the rst time you Handsome (2015). It is a great packaging old qawwalis into new sang the qawwali with Nusrat song, the feeling, the range and melodies, as can be heard inSanu Fateh Ali Khan? Did music director Tanishk singer in Hindi lm music for 15 position was done by Ustad Nus­ most importantly the audiences the energy is just brilliant but it Ek Pal Chaen (Raid, 2018), also I All compositions of Ustad Nus­ Baghchi ask you to sing it for years. Can you recall how it rat Fateh Ali Khan. for accepting it in Bollywood. didn’t get the recognition. sung by him. rat Fateh Ali Khan are spellbind­ Baadshaho, or did he remix it ? started with the songs of Paap? The track was initially record­ In an email interview with The ing. I was very young when I rst I No, I did not [lend my voice to] I In the lm Paap, the song ed in Pakistan for an album that Is there any dierence you nd What are you working on next? Hindu, Khan discussed his latest sang it with Khansaab. Yes, he the remixed version. ‘Mann Ki Lagan’ was my intro­ was stalled due to the sudden in working in Bollywood and in I A qawwali album with Su poe­ song, and the hits and misses that trained me on this song as well. I duction into Bollywood. Pooja death of the producer. I am grate­ Lollywood? try. We have dedicated this year have made an impact on his ca­ have sweet memories of those Looking back, you have had a Bhatt heard the track and includ­ ful to the producers, music direc­ I Not really, but it is easier to to qawwali and are doing a world reer in Bollywood. days with him. steady career as a playback ed this song in her lm. The com­ tors, composers, the actors and work in Bollywood than Lolly­ tour with qawwali performances. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Mercifully free of remixes A Jamaican cowboy in Mumbai HOT SPOTS Welcome to New York’s soundtrack has multiple composers churning He may have been mostly mediocre fare with just two exceptions MIA since 2015, but Omi resurfaces to spread some good cheer in the city this Shooting for the sky: weekend The multi­composer AUSTRALIAN CUISINE Deborah Cornelious soundtrack leaves Artisan listeners wanting more Chef Jed Gerrard from Perth * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT As the rst rst cowboy over the will be serving Western hill — his words not ours — it’s Omi’s Australia’s delicacies such as job to inform his Jamaican brethren Jerusalem artichoke, salt bush, #1 6 7 3 9 whether uncharted terrains appear set sheep’s yogurt, carrot to be safe or otherwise. Before that dressing; Salt baked pork, inevitable head­scratching com­ white onion, cherry, Davidson mences, the 31­year­old singer, plumb and mustard; white born Omar Pasley, is referring to asparagus, celeriac, black music in his chat with The Hindu. garlic, olive oil poached hen’s You see, usually a musical export yolk, parmesan cream; and from the Caribbean island brings more. 7,500 all inclusive. with them their people’s music: Time: 8 p.m. reggae, dancehall, dub. It’s rare to Venue: Artisan, Bandra hear bubblegum Americana pop Kurla Complex Phone: 9820698883 Vipin Nair songs he mostly gets in Hindi from a Jamaican artiste. “It’s a lms. Despite the tedium though, Top Recos: ‘Nain Phisal Gaye’, chance you take when you try to be What appears to be yet another Khan’s ‘ Ishtehaar’ is one of the ‘Ishtehaar’ dierent or try to introduce so­ run­of­the­mill brainless Bolly­ better songs from this soundtrack. mething new,” says Pasley. “There’s wood comedy ick, Welcome to Composed by Shamir Tandon and always that risk of a colossal failure New York does not oer much written by Charanjeet Charan, the dable. The other song called, or a major success. The musician promise going by its trailer — and song renders the standard melan­ ‘Pant Mein Gun’, is a pretty good blasted onto everyone’s radar in given the multi­composer line­up, cholic motions (the only notable indicator as to how the song is, 2015 with the single ‘Cheerleader’ not on the musical front either. aspect being the use of ute), deli­ lyrically (written by Sajid Khan and then released one album, Me 4 Nevertheless, it is the music of the vered by Khan and Dhvani Bha­ and Danish Sabri). Musically there U in the same year. Since then, it’s lm that has been making the nushali. Tandon’s second compo­ isn’t much going on given that the been radio silence from him … that news this week, after singer­ sition is called ‘Smiley Song’, sung song is almost entirely built on a is until now. “I have been spending turned­politician Babul Supriyo by Dhvani with the composer and rather derivative refrain. Khan a lot of time with family, and also Right notes: Omi’s makes happy, frothy music. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT STREET FOOD honing my craft,” he explains. reignited the Pakistani artist ban Boman Irani and is made up large­ joins the movie’s main man Diljit The Bombay Bronx Growing up in Jamaica, Pasley topics never really change if you seem frothy and feel­good, but it debate by asking for Rahat Fateh ly of laughs in leading Bollywood Dosanjh on vocals for this one. The restaurant is putting a rst started recording music when notice,” he points out, “We’re not comes from place where Pasley Ali Khan’s song from this movie to actors’ voices. Good of the makers The Meet Bros present the nal spin on classic Mumbai street be re­recorded in somebody else’s to include a line in there that says track, ‘ Meher Hai Rab Di ’ ren­ he was 16 in a friend’s bedroom: “It singing about anything that some­ wants to uplift spirits. He’s current­ food with dishes such as voice. Well personally, I would “man oh man I love this song” — I dered by Mika Singh and Khush­ was more like an underground body else has not sung about.” In­ ly working on his sophomore untit­ baked goat cheese, street prefer to hear a bit less of Khan in found it excruciating. boo Grewal is once again built on [thing] , wasn’t anything profes­ stead, it’s about individual articula­ led album which he promises will kebabs, vada pao, dhokla lms too, but that has nothing to Two more songs come from Sa­ a Punjabi folk tune that’s made sional. But it was still my voice be­ tion that counts, after all, even an reveal the progress he’s made over pakoda, kheema pao, anda do with his nationality (have al­ jid Wajid, and their rst one titled multiple past appearances in Bol­ ing played back to me.” It was im­ o­key note though undesirable, the last three years. And yes, it also bhurji, kadi chawal bowl, and ways considered a ban on those ‘Nain Phisal Gaye ’ is another lywood. The track becomes unin­ possible not to be inuenced by the has the power to resonate with pe­ will focus on love and relationships the Indianised version of grounds to be an exercise in silli­ hummable number.