Big B croons in Babul

While T-Series prepared for the music release of Ravi Chopra's family drama Babul on Thursday, music composer Aadesh Shrivastava was busy till Wednesday night recording a song with his idol Amitabh Bachchan. "Amitji has sung two songs for Babul. One of them needed technical correction. So, we had to re-do it," Aadesh said.

But then how can the music be released in an incomplete form? Aadesh says, "I suppose it's just the release function. The marketing will happen after I submit the final song... though the decision is entirely of the music company." Aadesh is very excited about the music. He said, "Amitji doesn't sing for any other composer these days. But he'd never say no to me. I'm his Hanuman. In fact, I wanted him to sing one more track. But it's a qawwalli. Amitji wasn't comfortable with it."

Apparently, Amitabh wanted Shankar Mahadevan to sing the qawwalli. And that would've been one more composer using another composer's voice, after A.R. Rahman asking Bappi Lahiri to sing in Guru and Pritam inviting Vishal Dadlani to croon for Dhoom 2.
"I opted for good old Sudesh Bhonsale who does a superb take of Amitji's baritone," he said.

The music composer, who after the stunning score in Dev, is working on Govind Nihalani's new project, has another surprise up his sleeve. "I'm blending classic ragas and bandish into reggae in a new album. This fusion has never been tried before," he says. Regarding the few projects that he is working on, Aadesh blamed it on his lack of diplomacy. "I can't do ji-huzoori with big filmmakers. You can call it my failing. But that's the way I am and I don't want to change," he said.