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Shreya Bose
we exit, is usually fantastic. College gigs will hopefully never
change and we’re really happy that we can say we’ve played at
colleges all over the length and breadth of the country and are
looking forward to playing a lot more
What does Agnee have in store for their listeners?
We’ve finished “Mango”, the film directed by Abbas Tyrewala,
as Music Directors, and are expecting the film to come out
shortly. We’ve also finished a 10 song project for Saregama,
where we’ve re-invented 10 of the timeless classics from their
stable. We’ve taken some epic songs like Aayega Aanewala,
Gore Gore Baanke Chhore, Intehaan Ho Gayi Intezaar Ki,
Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Yeh etc and tried to do our spin on them…
and we know it’s seriously risky business (but then that’s what
adds to the thrill of doing it!). We’ve also chosen to collaborate
with some fabulous singers on this, like Kaushiki Chakraborty,
Neeti Mohan, Shruti Pathak, Shalamali Kholgade, and various
others and can’t wait for the album to be out.
What exactly is the "Create with Agnee" venture?
“Create with Agnee” is a series of ventures and covers all our
collaborations. We started the first Create with Agnee initiative
with the MTV Splitsvilla 2 theme song lyrics contest, where
we asked the audience to write lyrics for the song. The lyrics
for Aahatein were written by the winners of the contest,
Neeraj Sharma and Khurram Nissar. Then we did the
Create with Agnee singers’ contest, and then the
composers’ contest. We plan to do a lot more with
the winners of the subsequent two contests and
also plan a lot more collaborations. While all of
these collaborations we just mentioned were
with listeners and through the audience route,
we’ve also done a lot of collaborations with
artistes we know and admire, like Parikrama,
Shilpa Rao, Anushka Manchanda, Indian
Ocean, Raghu Ram, Abbas Tyrewala, and of
course all the artistes on the Saregama album..
all of this comes under Create with Agnee.
It’s our way of being able to interact with our
favourite people in the world: creative people.
A message for the readers of Score,
perhaps?
We first met the Score team when we were doing
Aalaap as music directors, and one of the writers
at Score did a piece after seeing the first teaser to
the film. The film was based on a band comprising a
singer, a guitarist, a keyboardist and a drummer. The
girl who did the piece saw it and wrote an article titled
“Y U no like bass players, Bollywood??”. We read it
and thought it was so hilarious and well written that
we just had to reach out and meet the Score team.
We did, and we invited the team to Yash Raj, where
we were recording, to listen to the film album (every
song had a very prominent bass part ) and had a lot
of fun interacting with the people.. and we’re glad
to say we continue to have fun now! So we really do
mean it when we say to the readers.. “Keep reading
the Score.. we do! And hopefully, keep listening to
Agnee’s music too!”
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