Tune churayi meri, kisne o sanam?
Anu Malik is hit by allegations that Jaan-E-Mann's music has actually been scored by A R Rahman's assistant, G V Prakash
Subhash K Jha
| Whose tunes are we dancing to? A still from Jaan-E-Mann |
| Anu Malik |
| G V Prakash |
Anu Malik seems proud of scores in his two new back-to-back albums Jaan-e-Mann and Umrao Jaan. The question is, are the Jaan-e-Mann tunes actually Anu's? According to a source, "The director Shirish Kunder was completely disappointed by Anu's tunes. Together with A R Rahman's assistant G V Prakash Kumar, Shirish completely re-did the score. Anu has no moral right to take credit for the tunes. In reality, he has not composed even a single note."
Anu, however, vehemently denies the charge. "I swear that all the songs in Jaan-e-Mann are done by me. GV is a production guy. Every tune from Sau dard hai to Ajnabee to Sabko maloom hai, is mine. We took GV for the sound production. Those who are spreading this strange rumour should try to create the same tunes with someone else. You think Shirish Kunder would allow me to take credit for the music if I hadn't done it? My style is easily identifiable in Jaan-e-Mann. Actually the music in Jaan-e-Mann and Umrao Jaan are so good they can't believe I've done it. Actually , G V Prakash left Mumbai before the background music for which he's credited, could be done. So the background was done by Shirish and a guy called Rohit. No one in this industry will give me a chance if I wasn't delivering the goods. Ask Gulzarsaab, who's written the lyrics…"
And, what about his feud with Himesh Reshammiya? "I've no time for all this. I've moved on. I'm doing so many other things. I'm not threatened by any other composer. I've always felt I'm very good provided I've a director like J.P. Dutta or Shirish Kunder to inspire me. I yearn to work with Aditya Chopra and Sanjay Bhansali. These guys know what they want," he says.
Anu's daughter Anmol has sung in Umrao Jaan.But she has no plans of entering the Hindi movie industry. "Anmol has her own ideas. She writes composes and sings tunes. But not in Hindi. …English. She wants to be an international pop star."
So did Anu, at one time.
WHO IS G. V. PRAKASH?
A full-fledged music director at 19, G V Prakash now has big names such as Shankar Mahadevan and Alka Yagnik singing to his tunes.
Well, he is A R Rahman's nephew. But few know that Prakash is also a Grade 8 gold medallist in solo piano from Trinity College, London.
Before, Jaan-E-Mann, Prakash has worked in films like Swades, Kisna, The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, Rang de Basanti with Rahman.
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