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"Kisna" is here, Subhash Ghai's all-new offering. But what is "Kisna"? Find out with ANUJ KUMAR
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Photo: Sandeep Saxena.
Subhash Ghai with music director Ismail Darbar, Vivek Oberoi, Isha Sharvani and Javed Akthar at the music release of "Kisna" in New Delhi.
THE SHOWMAN is back, so are his ritzy ways and this time he has God to show for. "I found myself arrested within my own image. With Yaadein I tried a limited budget film revolving around a family but people didn't like it. They expect much more from Subhash Ghai. I have to fulfil their expectations. So I am back with a 25-crore film with epical proportions, Kisna - The warrior poet." Sounds fascinating but a contradiction in terms. "No, at least not in India. This land has seen Krishna, who was a warrior, a philosopher who preached Gita in verse, a friend, a scientist who created sudershan chakra... he has been our greatest hero. I believe there is a Krishna in all of us, and my story sketches one such Kisna, a village boy in the hills of North India in the 1940s. However, what really separates the story from others is that Kisna's story is narrated by a British girl."
Talking about his cast, Ghai says, "Initially I wanted a new face for Kisna, but when I went scouting for two female leads, my search ended at two new faces Antonia Bernath and Isha Sharvani. However, in this tedious selection process, I realised I can't take another fresh face as training three newcomers would have been very difficult. So I opted for a relatively new face Vivek Oberoi, fresh from Company at that time. And he has fit the part perfectly well."
With music always being a high point of a Ghai product, this time he has roped in two greats A.R. Rahman and Ismail Darbar for Kisna. "Rahman was my original choice because it is an international project and I wanted both the festive and soulful element of Indian music. However, he was busy with Lord of Rings and excused that he won't be able to do the whole album. So he has done the theme song and the English song. Then I asked Ismail to do the rest because apart from Rahman if somebody has the knowledge and ability to fuse Western and Indian classical music, it is Ismail. The way he has used Ustad Rashid Khan's voice in `Kahe Ujare Mori Neend' is really captivating."
Ismail asserts the attempt has been to complement each other. "We shared notes with each other. Listeners will find it difficult to distinguish between our compositions." Ghai terms this as success for the album. Javed Akhtar shares that after a long time he has found fresh situations to experiment with his words.
"People ask why we don't have Pyasa kind of songs today. I always say we no longer have those situations. Songs are written according to situations." Javed adds the songs are different from Lagaan, another period film in the sense that in Lagaan, the intellect was not present at a conscious level in the protagonists but in Kisna it is there and this reflects in the music.
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