Zubeen to act in Chakra
NEW DELHI, Sept 5 After rocking his fans with his peppy foot-tapping numbers
and his sufi renditions, singer Zubeen Garg has now cut his debut pop album,
Zindagi. Having done an award winning film in Assamese, Zubeen is also
preparing to step into the tinsel town with a Hindi film, Chakra. A popular
singer, Zubeen is an actor too. His Assamese film Dinabandhu got the National
Award in 2005.
I love acting but Im choosy about scripts. However, this year I will do a
character in my Hindi venture Chakra. Im also acting in another Assamese film.
This will be my fourth one, he says.
Zubeen, who has a kind of record of singing more than 7000 songs in various
languages like Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Oriya, Marathi, Nepali, etc. is also
planning to bring out a Bengali album, Tumi.
I am doing a Bengali album for HMV. It is ready and will be hitting the stands
this puja, he says. Zubeen who hails from Jorhat, a small town, says his foray
into mainstream Bollywood was relatively smoother as he already had experience
of working in Assam.
It is a long journey, but my sailing into Mumbai was smoother as compared to
other strugglers as I already had a big platform in Northeast and Assam. I
stayed here whenever I wanted and went back to Assam whenever I got bored. I
should say people of Assam has always helped me, says Zubeen.
While his story might be smoother but what about the other singers who are
creating waves in the reality musical TV shows like Sonys Indian Idol, Zees
Saregamapa and Stars Voice of India? Zubeen feels it is more hype than
material.
Music shows will just give them a quick promotion but the struggle is always
there. It really takes time to get a good grip in the industry. Hype can create
a star but not an artist, he says.
Zubeen, who has his hands full with a lot of other projects, is also directing
videos for one of his albums.
I have conceived and directed three videos of one of my forthcoming albums,
Pakeeza. It took three long years to make it but now it is complete and Im
waiting for a proper time to launch it. It has a very strong North East touch
and will definitely sound far different than the rest of the albums in the
country, he says.
An ardent admirer of music director S D Burman, Zubeen has also designed a
special album as a tribute to the legendary composer. Im doing another
special lounge album on the songs sung by the great S D Burman, he says.
Although, Zubeen has sung a number of songs starting from Mere watan in Fiza to
the title song in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, he feels he is restless and the biggest
dreamer.
Im one of the biggest dreamers. I keep dreaming 24 hours. So I am just
chasing them always, he says. PTI
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