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Going jazzy!
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Sunali is doing what she likes most
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LATENT TALENT Sunali Rathore
Long tresses, silk saris, arm in arm with her husband, she epitomised the common man's version of femininity. That was Sunali Rathore, famous partly for her looks and partly for being the wife of Roop Kumar Rathore, the ghazal singer. That she sang ghazals was just an add-on.
No longer though. The lady has undergone a makeover — not only the looks but the music as well. Gone are the saris, long tresses and ghazals, in comes a hep and happening Sunali who is inspired by jazz and croons pop. Her album "This Is Me" has hit the stands and music video of "Ooh Ooh Aah Aah" is being appreciated.
Trained under Hridaynath Mangeshkar and Ustad Fayyaz Ahmad, she says she always liked jazz and loves the work of the likes of Ray Charles but once she started with a ghazal album "Aaghaz" in the late 1980s, she was stamped as a ghazal singer.
Sunali disagrees that she has taken the step too late in the day. "Unlike the West, we hardly have singers who can perform and sing at the same time. When you think of a singer performing, images of a singer holding a mike with a dozen dancers come to mind. I believe I can fill the gap."
Sunali says she is not a trained dancer but can move with the beat. "It is in the blood. My mother Lina Jhaveri was a classical dancer." She doesn't mind going back to the ghazal days, but for now she is concentrating on "Kahin Bhi Lage Na Ye Jiya Jale".
ANUJ KUMAR
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