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SOUND MOVE Rabbi Shergill: `There is a lot of genuine rock in my music' Photo: Murali Kumar K.
After scorching music charts with his debut self-titled album, Rabbi Shergill returns, this time to add riffs to the Bollywood. Rabbi takes the new avatar of music director and lyricist for Delhi Heights, the film from Sivaji Ganesan Productions (Chandramukhi fame) directed by Anand Kumar.
The film also marks the return of the production house to Hindi cinema after the Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini starrer Amar Deep (1958).
Set in Delhi, the film 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 would be featuring new artistes. I'd also like to call people I look up to: Asha Bhonsle, Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan and others.The film will be ready in October," says Rabbi, catching a few minutes away from the studio.
On the Indian Idol and similar contests, "all of these are aimed at playback singing. The object is to create playback singers and not pop stars. Thus they are serving a valid purpose. Rock or pop stars cannot be created."
Growing up listening to rock music on AIR and keertans at home, Rabbi eventually churned out 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. About 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," reflects Rabbi.
Rabbi's choice
Artistes he is currently listening to are Dire Straits, U2, Tori Amos and Jimi Hendrix. Will all of these reflect in 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 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 am getting 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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