When it comes to music lovers all around, the upcoming season of the MTV Unplugged has a lot to offer. This time it will mark the Debut of Filmmaker and music director Vishal Bhardwaj, and musical brother duo of Armaan Malik and Amaal Malik and where the legendary singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan would perform along with his sons -Siddharth and Shivam.
Vishal Bhardwaj is debuting on the show in collaboration with Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. On this auspicious event of show launch here on Wednesday, some of the singers interacted with the media. Shankar Mahadevan while interacting confesses about his emotions that,”I have been composing songs in this industry for last 25 years but this is the biggest high an artist and a father can ever have, singing along with his sons on the same platform.”
Vishal Bhardwaj says that,”I revisited some of the songs that I recorded 25 years ago, so recreating those songs in today’s time, signing them live was a unique experience; quite magical.”
In the interaction, Shankar was aked about on recreating old songs for films which is a trend in bollywood at present, to which he replied,”I have never been approached for that and I think people who worked with us always want us to make original music. So as a music composer I have never rehashed any old songs, except for ‘Pretty Woman’ in ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’.”
In the exclamation to the question asked to Shankar, singer Rekha Bhardwaj said that,”If the new version beautifies the song more, I have no problem to sing it.”
Vishal states that,” He loves to celebrate original songs in all his film as using a recreated version of any song is a film director’s individual choice and that varies from person to person. I personally do not like the idea of using an old song in a new film, rather take pride in creating an original song.”
The 7th season of Royal Stag Barrel Select MTV Unplugged will be telecast from December 9, every Saturday at 8 p.m.
