Is the withdrawal related to the kind of music being churned out today? He denies that. Of late, however, they have cut down on composing Hindi film music. Shankar along with collaborators Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa created some of the most memorable movie music in 2000s. Once Shankar Mahadevan entered the Indian music industry, there was no looking back.
I got so nervous, I was like what is this? And he said, it is Breathless! That time I used to live in Navi Mumbai, so one day after work, I took a taxi back home, I had my dictaphone, so I took that and started composing the song in the taxi, and by the time I had reached Navi Mumbai, I had composed the song. When I saw it for the first time, it felt like I was reading a long newspaper article.
I gave him a meter to write on, a few notes to write on, and he wrote almost like two full sheets of lyrics, he gave it to me after a week. So I got very excited with the idea and we both decided that we should keep this one breath level, as if it is sung in one breath, you know. But when we are improvising, it doesn’t have a structure, so why can’t we write something like that? A structure-less parabola as it is called in Physics– it goes up, it comes down, it is fast, it is slow, ‘upar ke surr hai, neeche ke surr hai’, so it is a very unstructured kind of a thing, but it has it’s own structure. Revealing how Breathless actually shaped up, the National Award-winning music composer says, “A song has a mukhda then music, antara and then music, that kind of a thing. He said in English classical music, it doesn’t have any structure, as opposed to a song.” But Javed sahab told me that he has this idea in mind for many many years. The regular thing to do would be to do one sad song, one disco song…. We were wondering what should we do in an album together. When I met Javed sahab, the connection was instant. And, when I came to know that I am going to get the opportunity to work with Javed Akhtar, that’s what excited me. Many people told me to consider doing a non-film album. Speaking on the back story of the song, he says, “It was the time when I was still performing, doing advertising work and making jingles.
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