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SNEHA RAMESH
You have given some party hits in Bollywood which
made in to the chart busters. How did that come about?
I used to hear international and bollywood music both, then I try
recreating bollywood music by putting my own music in it. It was my
friend’s birthday so we were all partying, suddenly I got this idea of
composing a song for her, Uski ek baat hoti thi, every Saturday party
karni hai! I used to tease her ki Saturday Saturday karti raheti hai
and then there was no looking back. I made a rough dummy of that
track and my friend encouraged me to release it. Then I met Badshah
bhai and did it professionally. Moreover, Saturday was a tease for a
girlfriend which converted into a huge song. The song was actually
an experiment with the hip-hop style. I am young and wanted to try
out different genres in music. It so happened that the response was
extremely positive after this song.
It was only by chance that Karan Johar was looking for a peppy
number for his movie and he heard my song thus decided to include it
in his movie ‘Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania’
Firstly when I got call from the biggest production house that we want
your song in a bollywood movie, I thought this is someone faking
around but when I got an official mail from Dharma Productions then
was the moment when my dream comes true. This made my passion
as my profession, so whatever I am today is because of Saturday
Saturday and known as Saturday boy Indeep Bakshi.
Kala Chashma Unfortunately, Zee Music and Dharma Productions
missed on giving the song credit to me since they were unaware of the
fact that the Rap was written by me and the rap was earlier used in my
song ‘Don’t Look At Me’ which was done with Badshah itself.
I was at my place when I received a call from my team, saying that my
rap had released in Zee Music’s new song ‘Kala Chashma’. I was really
happy to hear the news because I had sung that portion for them just
a couple of months ago. While the happiness was just building up I
learnt that my name wasn’t mentioned in the credits. This was when
I called up Zee Music to explain what had happened. They realised
the same and added my name in the credits in no time. Everything
happened in 15 minutes and I am really grateful to the team at Zee
Music.
So my journey has been a roller coaster ride but am building up
myself and ready to give many more tracks in Bollywood in the days.
Its just the starting there is more to come and my music is future as it
is FUNJABI.
Your recent music video Bad Wali Feeling has a crazy
4.2M views. Can you tell a little more about what
inspired you to make this song?
It happened all a sudden when I got a call from a production house
and they asked for my track ‘Paheli Bari Ki’ which was to be shot
with one and only Sunny Leone for the movie ‘Tina and Lolo’ so it was
then when I used the phrase in front of my friends that ‘Bhai bad wali
feeling aa rahi hai ab’ so all a sudden I penned it down and started
working on it. After I finished composing and putting music in it, I
met Neha Kakkar in Mumbai there I made her go through this track
and she loved it. We worked together and came out with this track
‘Bad Wali Feeling’ having vocals of Neha Kakkar too in it.
My songs are my baby so as the baby grows you feel happy and when
the baby is a grownup one then you see their success. Similarly my
songs are for me and the track ‘Bad Wali Feeling’ has given immense
response which still being loved by everyone who takes this track as a
stress buster because my music and lyrics are the stress busters what
I produce is based on the daily life.
This song has an adult certificate and the video content is strictly 18+.
This song is in another genre of RNB mix only like Saturday Saturday
was first house music.
For this particular song i have shot the video for 3 times as I was not
satisfied with the kind of video I wanted. At last the final video was
shot in Dubai with a lot of entertainment in it.
What inspires you to write music?
My lyrics are very conversational, and I write them to cater to the
youth and the way that youngsters talk today and my music style is
mostly R&B.
Inspiration is as such my first sad song ‘Tere Liye’ which came in the
movie ‘Delhi wali zalim girlfriend’. This track was not to sale and nor
was meant to be released, the song was one of an incident of my life
which happened out be my bad in a relationship and I wrote this song
when I was in Shimla. At that time I wrote 2 songs one is ‘Tere Liye’
and other one is ‘2 AM’ which soon to be released.
‘Tere Liye’ was bought by T-Series after they heard my track which was
set as my ringtone. Also another song which came was ‘Billionaire‘and
was based out of my real life story which lately Raftaar gifted me at the
launch.
Tell us your best performance so far and why?
CEOL festival was my first live in concert in Delhi which gathered
a good number of crowd. It was a dream performance where I got so
much love from the fans that it took 3 hours for me to get free from the
vanity van because I was busy clicking photos with the fans there. I
was ill that day and was scared that how will I perform but as soon as i
got on the stage my power for performing was doubled as I could hear
the noise ‘Indeep –Indeep’…….. Everyone there was cheering up and
was so excited to see me live.
I was obliged by seeing such a fan love and that made my day which
still gives me goosebumps
Do you think there is a lot of space for Independent
artists in India to get bigger?
Yes, there is and its only because of Honey Singh and I really
appreciate that he is the one who has open the space for independent
artists in the Bollywood industry as well as the singles they come up
with. Its only because of Honey bhai that each independent artist is
being recognized now.
Now days the songs which are coming in Bollywood are of
independent artist only and the demand of such songs is growing
steadily.
What is your message for aspiring musicians?
For them, just trust yourself and keep doing the good work and always
pursue your ambition with full sincerity and honesty. Never take
anything for granted and never make assumptions based on rumours.
Respect everyone who give you respect back.
Also, Well I won’t try to sound preachy, but never give up on your
dream. You need to have confidence in yourself even if others stop
believing in you. Don’t let anyone put you down, and most of all, don’t
put yourself down. Everyone has the potential of becoming a great
musician, but it takes a lot of commitment, honesty and focus to get
there. You have to have passion when you play in order for your
music to truly speak. Don’t be a musician to get famous or rich or a
pin-up model, do it because you look upto the singers of the 80’s and
90’s and aspire to be like them one day. You can never get there if you
don’t keep trying. Lastly don’t let critics get to you and decide whether
you are to make a mark or retire from the industry. Listen to your
inner voice and let your intuition guide you.
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