Friday, September 17, 2010

Rahman launches Delhi 2010 theme song

After much delay, composer A R Rahman unveiled the theme song for the upcoming Commonwealth Games on September 11.

The music director performed the song O yaaro, India bula liya last Saturday. The song has been composed and sung by Rahman.

The launch of the song got delayed after the Group of Ministers (GoM) overseeing the October 3-14 mega-event asked Rahman for some modifications to the composition.

Music release of For Real

Vishal Bhardwaj launched the music of the film For Real, composed by Ustad Zakir Hussain, at a Mumbai multiplex last week. Sudhir Mishra, actress Sarita Choudhury and director Sona Jain were present.

The film tells a story of an urban Indian family through the eyes of a six year-old child and releases across India on September 17 through PVR Pictures. Zakir Hussain has given music for a film after a gap of eight years. He agreed to compose because the script reminded him of his childhood.

Sarita Choudhury, the lead actress, says, “The character I play in the film is a singer, who gives up her singing career in London to get married and moves to India to be a mother. I agreed to do an Indian film after so many years because I was so impressed with the level of the writing in the script. And Zakir’s music is just beautiful.”

Sona Jain added that she needed the flavour of world music for her songs and it was a dream come true when Zakir Hussain agreed to compose the songs. “He put a condition that I would need to write the lyrics since I had written the script as well. That was something I had never done before, but I am grateful to him for pushing me, supporting a debutant director and have learnt so much from him.”

PTI

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