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Musical relationships
RISHTAA IS about relationships. What else? When Raghav Chatterjee — a guitarist who switched to singing inspired by his classical-singer mother Sheila Chatterjee — cuts his first album in Hindi, it obviously has to be about relationships.
If `Rishtaa' is about bondage with all sorts of relatives, it is also about man's relationships with his past, with time, with environment and with the Earth. Collectively, the eight songs in the album — a peppy mix of soft melodies — are about his union with humanity.
Raghav sang his numbers at the Music World in Spencer Plaza on Wednesday, attracting a fairly decent crowd — curious at first, lingering a little longer, then staying on some more. Others were just scrolling down the racks, sinking in the soulful numbers and absorbing the lyrics.
Listening to Raghav (the portly cheerful man at the corner, in case you missed him), there is little trace of his `Chatterjee' lineage in his Hindi.
But Raghav is someone who's already cut 10 albums in Bengali. He took to learning classical more than a decade ago and even had a stint with the Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata. Half a decade ago, he won the Golden Talent Contest, and immediately after, released his first album in Bengali.
He's taking his first Hindi album on an India tour; the next stop is Bangalore. Before that, he will be serenading crowds at Landmark in Spencer Plaza on Thursday evening and at Marry Brown in Nungambakkam the evening after. It will be easy to spot him: He should be the man with the mike.
By Feroze Ahmed
Photo: S.R. Raghunathan
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