Hello Delhi,
I will be performing live at the ITPO Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan on 20th November 2009 (Friday). So if you are a Sufi Music fan and have loved my song – ‘Goonja Sa Hai Koi Ek Tara’ from Wake Up Sid movie, watch out for more of Sufi experience on 20th November 2009 (6:00pm).
Block your calendars; see you there :)
We all have dreams as a child and as we grow up, few of those dreams either die as they confront real life, while others are given up for more practical and economic considerations. Sad, but true. Wish if life was all about living, loving and following one’s dreams. Karan Johar’s WAKE UP SID, which is all set to release on 2nd October 2009, highlights Siddharth Mehra (Ranbir Kapoor), a lazy, unmotivated slacker from Mumbai whose life undergoes a series of changes after taking his final year college exams. Sid is a cool guy and avoids responsibilities. His life revolves arounds friends, camera, car and his X-box 360. Ranbir (Sid) doesn’t know what to do next and has no plans for his future. He spends his time hanging out with friends, watching TV, eating, sleeping and dreaming. Sid feels people should not be serious about life and take it as it comes. I wish, everyone thinks like this, we would not need any meditation and spiritual gurus. Anyways, the film, is a Mumbai-based romance about urban relationships and revolves around a good looking young guy (Ranbir Kapoor) who falls for an older and simple woman (Konkona Sen Sharma), a writer from Kolkata.
WAKE UP SID, is directed by Ayan Mukherji and stars Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma in the lead roles. Supporting cast includes Anupam Kher, Supriya Pathak, Namit Das, Shikha Talsania, Rahul Khanna (in a special appearance) and Rahul Pendkalkar. The music of the film has been composed by the celebrated trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and lyrics by Javed Akhtar.
My song Ek Tara is a melody number that explores the wandering nature of human mind, which travels many million miles everyday. The words, ‘Oh re manwa tu to bawra hai, tu kya sochta hai’ are beautifully written (and I hope I have sung them well too)… as they highlight the state of everyone’s mind. Overall the song is very catchy (not because it’s mine song) but because it relates to most of us at some point in our lives…
Wake Up… for life!
Yeh Mera India or YMI movie is hitting the theatres today. It’s a social movie and touches many topics in the societal context. Directed by N Chandra, the film focusses on minority rights, urban migration, reservation, corruption etc. 'Yeh Mera India' tries to explore the reality behind the myriad news reports that we see on the television and read in the newspapers everyday. Most of us tend to take it in a very normal sense, since the happenings are very far away from us. We hardly try to look behind the violence and atrocities that are taking place around us or find their root cause. This is where the movie steps in and tries to make us explore the real truth.
