All spice
ANUJ KUMAR
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Sunidhi Chauhan on "Mehbooba Mehbooba" and more.
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Photo: Bhagya Prakash k.
THE CHOSEN ONE Sunidhi Chauhan feels at times too much sweetness in the voice debilitates the song.
Long before Himesh Reshammiya happened, a little girl from Delhi took the sugariness out of the playback singing. The film was "Mast", the song was "Main Mast" and the girl was Sunidhi Chauhan. Nobody noticed for she sang the conventional numbers as well. But it was the unpredictable that kept her in the news. Be it "Mehboob Mere", "Main Saat Samunder" or "Dhoom". And as you mention the next in line is "Crazy Kya Re" from "Dhoom-2", she points out that she has just recorded "Mehbooba Mehbooba" for Ram Gopal Varma's remake of "Sholay". "I believe there was an overdose of shakkar when I entered the industry and the list of songs that are on the charts proves that this generation is for variety. Also, I have the tonal quality to suit such songs," says Sunidhi who was in Delhi for a Radio City contest where the winner gets the opportunity to have a celebrity at his/her home.
"The event provided me an opportunity to be in my hometown for a day which I left at an early age." Indeed she was all of 14 when she won "Meri Awaaz Suno", one of the first talent hunt shows on Doordarshan and soon joined Kalyanji's troupe.
Childhood lost?
Didn't she lose out on her childhood? "I did, but then you can't have everything in life. You lose some, you gain some. However, I really missed out on classical training. Everything happened so quickly and nicely." It didn't reflect in her career graph either? "Still, (classical) learning always helps. If I get time and opportunity I would still like to learn."
Coming back to "Mehbooba", of late in some of the television shows, Sunidhi has also shown that like Sonu Nigam, she could mimic anybody. So has she mimicked Asha?
"No, I have sung it my way. I do mimicry when the devil in me comes out," she laughs. "In fact, now I have stopped doing it, for some people didn't take in a healthy way."
But the people love it. For one of the requests of Radhika Bhandari, the Radio City winner, is to make her mimic Lata Mangeshkar!
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