Abhijeet Bhattacharya reacts to AR Rahman’s ‘unsystematic’ way of working
Abhijeet Bhattacharya reacts to AR Rahman’s ‘unsystematic’ way of working
Renowned Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya reacted to AR Rahman’s ‘unsystematic’ way of working in ‘Recording at 3:33 am in the name of creativity’.
Amid opening up on his collaboration with the Oscar winning musical composer, Singer Abhijeet said that the music composer wasn’t even present amidst the recording session.
The singer said that Rahman kept delaying the recording, and eventually wasn’t even present in the studio. He made a reference to Rahman’s rumoured preference for working at odd hours, and said that not every practice can be forgiven in the name of creativity.
In an interview the singer was asked why he has collaborated only once with Rahman.
He said, amidst that time, he was getting calls from all the major composers. Anu Malik would be on the line, and then Anand-Milind would call, and then Jatin-Lalit would call. He was busy dubbing all the time. And finally went (to meet Rahman) and was left waiting at the hotel.”
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he decided can’t keep waiting, and that we could record in the morning. At 2 am,he receives a call summoning him to the studio. He was sleeping but he went in the morning, but he was not there. They don’t have the habit of working at regular hours. Abhijeet is used to working in a systematic manner. Now, in the name of creativity, if you say that you will record at 3:33 am, he doesn’t get it.
Abhijeet said that on that day, an assistant of Rahman’s was at the studio, and that he was the one in charge. “Because of the air-conditioning in his room, he had a cold. But he insisted that he will sing. He has done a lot of hit songs for super-flop movies, and this was one of them.
Nobody watched the film. The song belongs to Rahman,” he said, giving credit where it’s due. He added, “I kept asking for Rahman, but didn’t get a firm answer.
An artiste doesn’t become big or small by doing these things…Abhijeet was told that he should have waited for him and left later.
Abhijeet also spoke about almost doing playback in the film Rangeela, and said that this was the first time that he saw Rahman working at regular hours. In an earlier interview with Lehren Retro, he had described the process of working with Rahman as ‘unmusical’. “
They called him(Abhjeet) saying the song has been changed, and since Udit Narayan has already sung for the character, his vocals will be used in a different way. Abhijeet realised that this is not a place for music. He was just recording patches.
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