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Sunali goes for a hep and happening makeover with her `This Is Me'
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LATENT TALENT Sunali Rathore is a big fan of Ray Charles
Long tresses, silk saris, arm in arm with the 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, incomes 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 '80s, 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 dancing around come to mind. I believe I can fill the gap."
That's why the emphasis is on the video, shot by Kiran Deohans, who shot films like Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham."
ANUJ KUMAR
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