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Singer Rabbi Shergill turns a music director and lyricist
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CINEMA CALLING Rabbi Shergill PHOTO: MURALI KUMAR. K
After scorching music charts with his debut self titled album, Rabbi Shergill returns, this time to add riffs to Bollywood. Rabbi dons the avatar of music director and lyricist for Delhi Heights, a film directed by Anand Kumar and produced by Sivaji Productions.
The film marks the return of the production house to Hindi cinema after the Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini starrer Amar Deep (1958).
Set in the Capital, in an apartment called Delhi Heights, the flick stars Jimmy Shergil, Neha Dhupia, Om Puri, Rohit Roy, Simone Singh, Vivek Shauq and Kamini Khanna.
"It is a breezy romance. As for the music, the sounds will be the same as my previous album. The content will be different. We will feature new artistes. I'd also like to call singers I look up to: Asha Bhonsle, Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan and others. The film is expected to be ready in October," says Rabbi.
On Indian Idol and similar contests, he says, "All these are aimed at playback singing. The objective is to spot playback singers and not pop stars. Thus they are serving a purpose. Rock or pop stars cannot be created."
Growing up listening to rock music on AIR and keertans at home, Rabbi eventually created a different blend of music that has Sufi and rock elements in equal proportion.
"Yes, there is a lot of genuine rock in my music. I was a guitar player in a rock band called Kafirs in college. As for the Sufi element, I think I just sang a poem that I liked. That it was penned by a Sufi saint was incidental. I prefer singing to musicology. It is not difficult or easy to do my kind of music, it just `is'. I'm a songwriter, I write songs," says Rabbi.
Artistes he is currently listening to are Dire Straits, U2, Tori Amos and Jimi Hendrix. Will all of these artistes influence the film score?
"The OST is going to be mine. The songs may be for a movie, but they do have resonance from my experiences. Western music component in our music has surged ahead. These days, I find it so hard to say my music is different. There are so many talented music directors in the industry," says the artiste who considers himself "the top-40 kind of material. I am not doing something radically different."
As regards his much-awaited next album, "Yes, I am working on my new album. I will get down to it after I am done with the film. The cover should be ready in the next two months."
SYEDA FARIDA
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