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Poetic pitch
Rajiv Vijayakar Posted online: Friday , March 07, 2008 at 1227 hrs
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He has had a distinctive but limited record as a lyricist. And he's been specialising in singing classical numbers in films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Khoya Khoya Chand. Chatting up Ajay Jhingran, whose recent work also includes Sonu Niigaam's Classically Mild and songs for Mission Ustaad on 9x
Sonu Niigaam chose you for Classically Mild when he could have gone to any of the biggest names. Why is that?
Smiles) He is better qualified to answer this question. But we have been associated for a long time, since his album Bijuria.
Still, how did it happen?
When a poet comes to Mumbai to make it big, he has dreams of all kinds and not just of success and money. He wants to bloom in his poetic expressions. I speak for most of us when I add that we all want to write timeless songs and get to work with men who respect quality and depth, want elegant language and in short, verse that is not just a mechanical job. Sonuji is like that, and he was also doing something that had depth. He has a great sense of aesthetics in poetry and music. I am told that the music company gave him full freedom to choose the biggest names, but one day he called me up and asked me if I wanted to do something different amidst all the commercial work I was doing. I said, "Mere dil pe thodi dhund zaroor lagi hai but it can be cleared." He immediately called me over. This is the first time that I have written an entire album to tunes. And Sonuji told me to take my time. It took 8 months to prepare 8 songs.
That is a lot of freedom indeed.
Yes, it was. Sonuji said that if it creatively helped I could go literally anywhere. I adopted a very Nomadic way of life, and I went up North. I had to prove my worth in terms of literature and thought. I consider the living legend Neerajji as my guru and it is my mission to revive poetry. We have tackled different aspects of life like Sufi philosophy, a song on naari, a romantic song and so on. There is one track, Sochta hoon main yeh khel kya hai about the purpose of life. I am never fond of conventional cliched writing and this is my way of venting my creativity that was always bottled up. After working on Classically Mild I have become calm - my bhadaas for literary work has been quenched for the moment.
http://www.screenindia.com/news/Poetic-pitch/280182/
Rajiv Vijayakar Posted online: Friday , March 07, 2008 at 1227 hrs
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He has had a distinctive but limited record as a lyricist. And he's been specialising in singing classical numbers in films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Khoya Khoya Chand. Chatting up Ajay Jhingran, whose recent work also includes Sonu Niigaam's Classically Mild and songs for Mission Ustaad on 9x
Sonu Niigaam chose you for Classically Mild when he could have gone to any of the biggest names. Why is that?
Smiles) He is better qualified to answer this question. But we have been associated for a long time, since his album Bijuria.
Still, how did it happen?
When a poet comes to Mumbai to make it big, he has dreams of all kinds and not just of success and money. He wants to bloom in his poetic expressions. I speak for most of us when I add that we all want to write timeless songs and get to work with men who respect quality and depth, want elegant language and in short, verse that is not just a mechanical job. Sonuji is like that, and he was also doing something that had depth. He has a great sense of aesthetics in poetry and music. I am told that the music company gave him full freedom to choose the biggest names, but one day he called me up and asked me if I wanted to do something different amidst all the commercial work I was doing. I said, "Mere dil pe thodi dhund zaroor lagi hai but it can be cleared." He immediately called me over. This is the first time that I have written an entire album to tunes. And Sonuji told me to take my time. It took 8 months to prepare 8 songs.
That is a lot of freedom indeed.
Yes, it was. Sonuji said that if it creatively helped I could go literally anywhere. I adopted a very Nomadic way of life, and I went up North. I had to prove my worth in terms of literature and thought. I consider the living legend Neerajji as my guru and it is my mission to revive poetry. We have tackled different aspects of life like Sufi philosophy, a song on naari, a romantic song and so on. There is one track, Sochta hoon main yeh khel kya hai about the purpose of life. I am never fond of conventional cliched writing and this is my way of venting my creativity that was always bottled up. After working on Classically Mild I have become calm - my bhadaas for literary work has been quenched for the moment.
http://www.screenindia.com/news/Poetic-pitch/280182/
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