I do regret the fact that our elderly lot or the senior critics
don’t much get to hear their choice of music. But we
have many erstwhile geniuses like Naushadsaab, Ravi,
Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Khayyamsaab, Kalyanji-Anandji, RD
Burman, et al to woo their tastes and preferences, who swear
by the retro era. Enough music has been created for the aged
audiences to enjoy and take a walk down their memory lane.
On the flip side, the current-day critics must also accept
the contemporary idiom and learn that the times they are
changing. It is in a constant flux. See, it’s the rule of the
universe that man’s likes and dislikes alter from decade to
decade. Music is who we are. It bears an authentic reflection
of the socio-political-economic culture we represent. It is a
correct identity, so it cannot be different. If the millennials
and the Gen-Z progeny like their music in a certain way, so
be it.
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How did you guys professionally foray into the
mainstream Bollywood music?
Oh, this goes back a long time. Actually, when we were
working at an FM radio station in our hometown Gwalior,
we used to have a lot of free time in hand while programming
the shows. Hence, we started making songs. In fact, it was
our first-time stint with the song making routine in life.
We realized that we can actually make music. Right from
our colleagues to everybody else at our workstation would
appreciate our songs and would ask us to lend them in
films. So when we finally moved to Mumbai, we just met a
few good people who had genuinely showed a keen interest
in our songs. We perhaps had enough confidence in what
we had created at that point of time. And after garnering
appreciation from whoever we had played our songs to, it
made us somewhat feel that we are on the right path. We
could never ever imagine that our songs like ‘Babydoll’ and