Playback singer Shaan says film songs used to function an escape from actuality for folks however they’ve now misplaced that appeal and within the course of additionally their recall worth. The voice behind numerous hits corresponding to “Tanha Dil”, “Musu Musu Hasi”, “Jab Se Tere Naina” and “Chand Sifarish”, the singer believes the admiration for movie songs is shrinking as a result of sensible cinema that has emerged lately.
“When I was doing movie songs, they had a longer life and there was likeability for those songs. Whenever there was a pure romantic situation in the movie, the hero was lip-syncing. Whether it was realistic or not was another thing. But ever since the songs are becoming more realistic, it is difficult for filmmakers to accept the Shah Rukh (Khan)-kind of songs, which were about spreading arms and singing anywhere. Luckily, I was the one of the last who enjoyed that phase where songs used to be picturized in a big lush way,” Shaan instructed PTI in an interview.
The 49-year-old musician stated ’90s songs nonetheless take pleasure in a fantastic recall worth and it’s as a result of they weren’t peppered with realism.
“Films then had nothing to do with being realistic. There were action films and had a hero, heroine, who would sing songs (in between), and again there was action. There were typical lyrics, romantic songs and those kinds of songs are not being made now. Today, in big films, the songs mostly play in the background. They are not making that impact. Besides, there are quirky songs being made today which have ‘ajeeb’ (weird) words and voices. Even though you listen to these songs from big hit films, you still don’t remember. Film songs are killing themselves because of that,” he stated.
Today, movie songs are getting fewer views than non-film songs, Shaan believes giving the instance of B Praak’s monitor “Filhaal”. The tune, which featured Akshay Kumar, has over 1 billion views on YouTube.
In phrases of movie songs, the singer stated the one monitor that acquired plenty of love from music aficionados in latest occasions was “Tu Kethe Chaliye” from Sidharth Malhotra-led Shershaah.
Shaan most lately launched his Sufi rock monitor “Rang Le”, which he believes is akin to hit songs like “Sayonee” by Pakistan’s widespread band Junoon. It was launched on January 19.
He believes there’s plenty of ‘confusion’ over what precisely is ‘Sufi’ and ‘Sufism’.
“Sufi is basically poetry and philosophy. The philosophy is that humanity is more than religion. There are very few songs that have put in the real essence of Sufi (here in India). Sufism is romance but romance for humanity.”
Shaan stated usually because of non secular variations, folks neglect that humanity is the largest faith.
“The first few lines are about that. It is like God exists within human beings so don’t kill human beings in the name of God. It is the most stupid thing to do. That is basically the preaching of Sufism.”
As an artiste, the singer stated it’s important for him to discover new territories by his work.
“Today so many songs are coming out. For me, either lyrically, musically or thought-wise, if there is nothing new, I don’t like to make a song. I don’t look at creating a song every week. Till I am convinced there is some takeaway then only I will make it,” he added.
