November 2016
OCTOBER 2016
Candid
Q&A
Hi this is Shruthi Patak and you are watching me
on museek mag. I was born in Ahmadabad and
that is how I started learning music and non3 of
my family members were into music. So I think I
was the odd man at home. But my father is really
a huge music enthusiast. He introduced me in to
fusion music, ghazal and lot of other things. So
iy was my father who introduced me in to music and that how I started singing and learning
music.
happened. But Marjava always remained
that special.
After Fashion, my very next song was with
Amithravedi which was for the movie
called Devdi. The song which I sang called
payalia was also written by me. So that was
something that I was more invested in than
a part in a song. I was not just the singer of
the song but I was also a lyricist. So obviously I had much more to do in the song.
But it was only post school and college when I
And then there was Vishalin Shekar who I
realized I should pursue singing as a career. So
worked with in the movie called Anjaana
I packed my bags and came to Mumbai. My
Anjaani, Raa-one and lot of other movies. I
first break was much later. It did not happen
have a band along whom, I travel a lot. We
the very next day. It was in 2008 with the movie perform a lot of bollywood music. Apart
called fashion. It was saleem cinemas that have from film music I also do a lot of stuff with
heard me sing somewhere and I happened to
non-film music. I also have a project called
meet them. The movie Fashion was really much Ghazaller. Ghazaller is all about reinventawaited at that point of time. Fashion itself was ing ghazals with a contemporary and a very
such a big hit. It was almost like my visiting card. new sound. So that project is really close to
That sounded so well and lot of songs happened my heart because that’s where I do everyafter that. Movies like Devdi, Kurbhan, Allaak,
thing which I don’t get to do in movies and
Anjana anjaani, Raa one and lot of other movies it is really fun.
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