The Score Magazine - Archive June 2015 issue! | Page 11

You seem to be modesty personified as you still call
yourself a newcomer and a student of Bollywood…. your voice in every number stem up from your own
personal experiences?
Ha-ha! Whatever you say, but frankly speaking, I’m not in a
hurry to prove my mettle in all forms of music under the sun. I'm
basically a relaxed person by nature and prefer to keep my feet on
the ground, lest I fall in absence of wings (laughs)! Jokes apart, I
take things as and when they come my way and consider myself a
learner on the job. Doesn’t the saying go, 'slow and steady wins the
race'? As a matter of fact, none is alien to a dark chapter in life. Sabhi is
pehlu se waqif hai aur iss dard se guzar te hai. (All are familiar
with the ups and downs of life and have to pass through this
agony). And the harsh fact is, you don’t plan or predict such things
in advance. It just happens. Sometimes it brushes past while on
other occasions, it shockingly punches you in the face.
Do you fear getting typecast as a tunesmith? For,
even if you explore and innovatively experiment
with other genres, you are mostly celebrated for your
love ballads alone.
To be very honest, I’m still at the nascent stage of my career. So I
don’t think I’ve reached a certain position where