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Mohit Chauhan is excited about Mission Ustaad
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a Different note Mohit Chauhan
Mission Ustaad, on 9X, is touted as a music programme with a social mission. It is expected to be a voice for the United Nations Millennium Campaign and, according to the UN resident coordinator Maxine Olson, “inspire millions” to contrib
ute to the eight “Millenium Development Goals”. Lead vocalist and guitarist of Silk Route and Hindi playback singer Mohit Chauhan, who teams up with Vasundhara Das, says “Mission Ustaad” will have no winners or losers. “In each episode, four pairs, each comprising a male and a female singer, will sing original songs based on a theme taken from the Millenium Development Goals. Altogether, eleven themes have been chosen. The best song from each episode will be one of the eleven in an album to be produced with assistance from the United Nations.”
In a telephonic interview, Chauhan says he is part of Mission Ustaad because of its goals. “I have refused television shows earlier. Not this time.” But then, as a musician, Chauhan has always taken unusual roads. Spending a great part of his childhood in a village in Himachal Pradesh, on the banks of the Beas, Chauhan could try out a novel voice-culturing method. He would sing into the roaring river “because I wanted to sing loud without disturbing others. A riverbank gives you the best chance to really throw your voice. When you do so, you always catch a different note.”
Chauhan composed a tune to go with one of Abdul Kalam’s poems. When Chauhan sang it in his presence, the former president was impressed. Chauhan ended up composing tunes for five of his other poems. As Chauhan is drawn to projects that are out of the ordinary, it is not surprising that he is absolutely thrilled about “Mission Ustaad.”
PRINCE FREDERICK
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