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Big B turns composer for Baabul
Published on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:23, Updated on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 13:04 in Entertainment section
Tags: Baabul, Amitabh Bachchan , Mumbai
Mumbai: Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan is humming a new tune in his ready-to-release Baabul and says it is a tune from his past that kept playing in his mind. Unfortunately, however, the album has been finally released without the song.
"I just thought I would use it here because it fitted in so well. I played around with the notes and came up with this song for Baabul. In fact, I recorded the song just a couple of days ago."
"In Ravi Chopra's Baghban I had sung four numbers. In Baabul I've recorded two. Earlier, I had recorded a happy number. But the pensive sombre number which I've just recorded is actually composed by me," said Amitabh, who doesn't seem bitter about the song being left out of the album.
Amitabh still insists he isn't much of a singer.
"What I like is to meet up with Aadesh Shrivastava, sit around in his music room and fool around with the notes. In Baabul for the first time I've contributed to a tune. Obviously the orchestral arrangements are Aadesh's but the theme song Kehta hoon babul o mere bitiya in Baabul has been tuned and sung by me.
Amitabh, who recently walked the ramp with his Baabul co-star Hema Malini at the launch of its music release function, feels that marketing plays a critical role in the success of a film.
"The promotion and marketing of a film today is as critical as its making. The competition is gruelling. Look at how films have been marketed in recent times."
"For Baabul we wanted to do something novel. So we devised a fashion show along with the designers of the film... not necessarily the clothes Hema and I wore in Baabul but clothes designed by the film's designers. That evening was extremely emotional and heart warming and the turnout was impressive," he said.
The mega-star is glad that a film stressing Indian values has been made.
"Television is so full of family dramas that this genre is hardly attempted in today's cinema. Baabul is very traditional and close to our hearts. It addresses the sensitive issue of a widow remarriage."
"Why does a young widow become a victim of ridiculous customs, almost an outcast? Like all the films from B.R Films, it addresses itself to a burning social issue."
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