The Score Magazine - Archive February 2015 issue! | Page 27

Ananya ashok
You both subsequently went into playback singing.
How was the transition like? Were there any
challenges in maintaining a Ghazal Music career and
playback singing?
R: Unfortunately, in India we don’t consider Ghazal singer a
playback singer. When I started my career as a Ghazal singer in
1986-87, filmmaker Shashilal Nair asked me to go and meet the
composer duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal as he was doing a film with
them. Laxmikant ji’s first reaction on seeing me was that you
are a Ghazal singer! I quite didn’t understand what he meant but
later understood that playback singing and Ghazal are different
genres. Ghazal is very personal while playback is singing for the
masses. Because I have grown in the industry with my brother
Shravan Rathod (part of Nadeem-Shravan duo) and seen s