Bollywood Sensation Hrithik Rosan debuts as a Singer!

Posted by: Adhika | Posted on: June 22nd, 2012 | No Comments

Kites is a 2010 Indian romantic drama film directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Rakesh Roshan, that stars Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori, Kangna Ranaut, and Kabir Bedi. The film was released in India and in North America on May 21, 2010. Its 208-theater opening in North America made it the largest Bollywood release there to that time. It was also the first Bollywood movie to reach the weekend top ten, though My Name is Khan had a larger first-weekend North American gross.

Bollywood sensation Hrithik Rosan debuts as a singer in the Bollywood cross-over movie ‘Kites’ which was released in 2010, in co-singing the song “Kites in the Sky.”

Here is an in-depth interview on the actor’s musical experience from www.bollywoodmantra.com:

Q: What inspired you to sing?

Hrithik Roshan:  I did not decide to sing, I was forced to do it. My uncle has tunes and Anurag had this ridiculous foresight that I could sing. Somewhere he had thought that I have all the talents: that I can act, dance and I do know music. So he believed that I can sing too for the film and it would be an extra bonus for it.

I obviously was not very gung-ho about it. But then he caught me very cleverly when he informed that it’s going to be lip synched song. In my head we had decided to make a very very honest film. I could not see myself in this film lip synching a song sung by another professional singer. He had me trapped.

When we started making the film, entire grammar of the film was totally out of the normal world of making Indian films. We had decided from the beginning about the kind of songs we will have. There was no lip-synching song per se in the film. I had told him in casual conversation that if I had to sing in the film then it had to be a song in my voice. Somewhere he had remembered that and used that to get his way. He said we have lip-synching song and it had to have your voice and that was that.

Once I said ok fine and I will do it, they gave me 2 weeks to get into the mood of it. And I rehearsed in the most ridicules manner. Early in the morning I would start with my sa re ga ma pa dha ni sa.  Right from the time I would wake up to brushing my teeth to taking the shower, all the time I was singing with hand movements trying to reach highest scale and lowest note.

My niece has learned piano and she has this little Casio player which I had borrowed. And I have the knack of finding any tune on any instrument. So I practiced on that for a week. Then I realized that it won’t work like that and I got a professional trainer. Susan came to help me and she is also the female voice in the song. I requested them if we can rehears now and record the song later once we were back in Mumbai. However, the problem was that they were shooting this song at Las Vegas and we were leaving for Las Vegas immediately. So we had no option but to record. We decided to do a scratch and later record the song properly. But they loved the scratch so much that they did not allow me to improve on it.

I didn’t consider myself singer but to be honest to my character, I went along with everybody. I am extremely happy for the kind of honest film that we have made. Even thought it was not professional singing and its not perfect voice but in film it renders honesty on screen.

Q: Your experience while recording?

Hrithik Roshan:  I thought I will pull it off. I had gotten myself to the point where I was enjoying singing. I am falling in love with the art of shutting your eyes from world and going in meditative state where you just sing. It’s a beautiful feeling. But when I went to studio it was totally different story.

They put you in this little compartment and your are not allowed to move because mike is fixed and my moving your voice will also move away. And while practicing I had been so mobile. I was like you are in training shoot. I was locked up in one place where I can’t even move my legs because the breath shifts in different direction and force change on mike is super sanative. Although I was fixed in one place but still I was enjoying it because I was learning new thing. It’s always nice to have new challenge.

Finally I told them to just switch off all the lights of the studio because I wasn’t being able to get my best out. So they just black out entire studio and I could not even see my mike because it was so dark. This black out worked and helped me to come out of the inhibitions that were in mind. And that’s how I finally worked.  That day we had flight in the night 3.30. I started of at 9 morning, we packed up from studio at 1 in the night. I had not even packed my suitcase but song acme out very natural.

 Q: what was the reaction of your uncle and Anurag when you were recording it in studio?

Hrithik Roshan: I didn’t want anyone to be there in studio, so nobody was there in studio. It was just me and female singer Susan.  And I said let me just go with the flow and allow me to enjoy myself. When they heard they liked it a lot. They kept the scratch only as the song but now I am scared because its going to come out in the audience.

And off course there is whole pressure of knowing from where I am coming. My grandfather to my uncle and the entire musical family background, I couldn’t let them down. So I am happy that it went off just fine.  There is always an extra pressure on you to come out with the best in whatever you are doing.

Q: How much did you enjoy singing and will you be singing more for your films?

Hrithik Roshan: I think yes, I enjoy singing. But then there are so many people who enjoy singing even though they can’t sing. Everyone likes to sing, it’s something natural in all of us. I have been singing myself to sleep whenever I am stressed out. I just sing any song like a broken record and keep going till I feel some relief. Then I go to sleep. After listening to this entire story Anurag Basu has sort of shown in to the world.

Q: What is the reaction of your wife Susan for Singer Hrithik?

Hrithik Roshan: in this she is obvious completely biased. She feels I am best singer in the world she compares me with Elvis Presley. But focuses I don’t believe in that I just feels it all what her love comes out for me.

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