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Tryst with success
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Singer Rekha Bharadwaj has her hands full
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At the launch Rekha, right, with her husband Vishal (extreme left)
Success comes with a price tag. It may bring loads of laurels and money, but then there’s always a flipside. And in the case of singer Rekha Bharadwaj, the success wasn’t even hers. As wife of music director and filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj
, she confesses that her husband’s achievements had an adverse effect on her career. “Because my husband is successful, no one took me seriously. No one gave me any opportunity to sing. Or they assume that I will sing only for my husband,” says the Delhi-born and bred Rekha.
So while she waited for offers to come her way, she continued to join her husband in his musical ventures. If she assisted Vishal in Maachis, Hu Tu Tu and Godmother; she lent her voice in Makdee and Maqbool.
But it was the release of her solo Sufi album, Ishqa Ishqa, in 2003 with Gulzar that helped her get noticed as a singer. “It took 11 years for Ishqa… to happen because no record company would take my songs. When they finally did, Vishal still had to use his savings to produce it,” she explains.
She agrees that it is “Namak Ishq Ka” from Omkara that finally added some spice to her career. “It’s only after it became a hit that others in the industry took notice of my voice. People started calling to enquire whether I would sing for them.”
And ever since it has been non-stop playback singing for Rekha! “I am very happy with the kind of songs I am singing now. I have just recorded with A.R. Rahman for Dilli 6. There is also one with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Adnan Sami, other than a song in the just released Super Star. You see, I am rocking,” she giggles. “That’s what people tell me these days,” she adds.
MANGALA RAMAMOORTHY
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