[Assam] Zubeen to act in Chakra

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

Zubeen to act in Chakra
 NEW DELHI, Sept 5 – After rocking his fans with his peppy foot-tapping numbers and his sufi renditions, singer Zubeen Garg has now cut his debut pop album, Zindagi. Having done an award winning film in Assamese, Zubeen is also preparing to step into the tinsel town with a Hindi film, Chakra. A popular singer, Zubeen is an actor too. His Assamese film Dinabandhu got the National Award in 2005. 

“I love acting but I’m choosy about scripts. However, this year I will do a character in my Hindi venture Chakra. I’m also acting in another Assamese film. This will be my fourth one,” he says. 

Zubeen, who has a kind of record of singing more than 7000 songs in various languages like Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Oriya, Marathi, Nepali, etc. is also planning to bring out a Bengali album, Tumi. 

“I am doing a Bengali album for HMV. It is ready and will be hitting the stands this puja,” he says. Zubeen who hails from Jorhat, a small town, says his foray into mainstream Bollywood was relatively smoother as he already had experience of working in Assam. 

“It is a long journey, but my sailing into Mumbai was smoother as compared to other strugglers as I already had a big platform in Northeast and Assam. I stayed here whenever I wanted and went back to Assam whenever I got bored. I should say people of Assam has always helped me,” says Zubeen.

While his story might be smoother but what about the other singers who are creating waves in the reality musical TV shows like Sony’s Indian Idol, Zee’s Saregamapa and Star’s Voice of India? Zubeen feels it is more hype than material. 

“Music shows will just give them a quick promotion but the struggle is always there. It really takes time to get a good grip in the industry. Hype can create a star but not an artist,” he says. 

Zubeen, who has his hands full with a lot of other projects, is also directing videos for one of his albums. 

“I have conceived and directed three videos of one of my forthcoming albums, Pakeeza. It took three long years to make it but now it is complete and I’m waiting for a proper time to launch it. It has a very strong North East touch and will definitely sound far different than the rest of the albums in the country,” he says. 

An ardent admirer of music director S D Burman, Zubeen has also designed a special album as a tribute to the legendary composer. “I’m doing another special lounge album on the songs sung by the great S D Burman,” he says. 

Although, Zubeen has sung a number of songs starting from Mere watan in Fiza to the title song in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, he feels he is restless and the biggest dreamer. 

“I’m one of the biggest dreamers. I keep dreaming 24 hours. So I am just chasing them always,” he says. – PTI

       
---------------------------------
Building a website is a piece of cake. 
Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20070906/2f440bd7/attachment.html