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What's keeping our very own rapper Baba Saigal busy these days?
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Santa And Banta Unlimited will be a very informal, impromptu show
THE SPUNKY PUNK Baba Saigal
Way back in 1992, he gave us "Thanda Thanda Pani", a clean copy of Vanilla Ice's Grammy winner, "Ice Ice Baby."
The rapper group soon had to part with the Grammy on charges of lipping a canned number sung by somebody else (and that almost finished Vanilla Ice), but it launched Baba Saigal's musical career in the Indi-pop ring.
An electrical engineer from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Baba aka Harjeet Singh Saigal took no time to kick his job at DESU to look punk and sing rap, bhangra, reggae and calypso numbers with a lot of spunk.
Early success
And his numbers, say "Aaja Meri Gadi Mein Beth Ja", "Rukmani Rukmani" (for Mani Ratnam's Bombay), "Baba Deewana", "Jugni Mast Kalander", "Hakuna Matata" (for the Hindi version of the Disney film, The Lion King) and "Pinga Pinga" did circulate well among listeners of Indi-pop scores across a decade and a little more.
Basking in the glory of releasing 21 music albums till date, a fervent Baba, over time, has extended wings to other arenas too — acting, directing film music and hosting shows on the box.
"Though acting in a telly soap and composing for movies are new profiles for me, I had hosted shows on TV before. I did Superhit Muqabala for Zee TV. I did Phillips Top Ten too for close to a year," reminds Baba. Adding to this list of telly shows is yet another show now, he informs.
Santa and Banta
Now, Baba will co-host with radio jockey Siddharth Kannan Santa And Banta Unlimited to be aired on Zoom.
"It will be a chatty show, very conversational, very informal with impromptu lines between me and Siddharth. It's not gossip but banter on a lot of subjects including music, movies, celebrities and sports, done in a humorous and witty manner," explains Baba.
He is the Santa of the piece and Siddharth is Banta and their banter has no script, just pointers.
Moving on to other things that are keeping his professional life active, Baba mentions telly-acting and composing music for a children's film.
SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY
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