Re: Query about two ARR songs

Date: 25 Mar 2003 03:24:30 -0800
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The first song happens to be a song called "Wedding Qawwali" from the
Bombay Dreams album. It starts off with Mubaraka and has the chorus,
"Sona Sona mera sona, sona sona maahii sona". the singers happen to be
AR Rahman himself and Sukhwindara Singh. Very peppy track.
The second question: Yes, there are numerous versions of the
"Shakalaka Baby" number. It was composed for the 1999 film
Mudhalvan(tamil)starring Arjun and Manisha Koirala, which was
subsequently dubbed into Telugu as "Oke Okkadu". The song was
originally sung by Vasundhara Das and Pravin Mani, picturised on
Sushmita Sen and Ahmed Khan, and was choreographed by Ahmed Khan
himself. "Mudhalvan" was later remade into Hindi as Nayak, and the
lyrics for the Hindi version of the song was written by Anand Bakshi.
There were minor variations to the song. The video that was used in
Mudhalvan was reused for Nayak.
ARR rebuilt the tune for his Bombay Dreams, with the chorus line
having the same tune, and the rest of the song with a different one.
This was sung in the album by Priya Kalidas.
On the recent tour, Vasundhara Das has been singing the English
version.
Hope this helps.