| Amitabh
Bachchan now records ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ for youngsters
July
11, 2008. The Big B describes “Hanuman Chalisa” as “divine and heavenly”.
“A
new youth-oriented rendition has been on my mind for a very long time.
Finally, Aadesh Shrivastava, with whom I’ve done a lot of singing, has
done it. I’d call it his great creative effort,” the Big B told IANS.
Trailers
of “Hanuman Chalisa” will be released in September, but Amitabh says those
who have heard it are giving a positive response.
“Wherever
I’ve played the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ so far people have found it to be a divine
experience - hair-raising, goose bumpy, that’s how the endeavour has been
described so far.
“I
guess it’s more to do with the nature of the project than the singing.
There’s a deep connect with the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ in perhaps every Hindu
home. We’ve all grown up reciting it. It still plays an important part
in our lives.”
But
if you think this is as far as the Big B tryst with divine singing goes,
then think again. He will now go into an even more ambitious spiritual
project.
This
one is for his father, late poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan.
“Aadesh
and I will now be collaborating over a new interpretation of the ‘Bhagavad
Gita’. It’s one of my father’s unknown and unacknowledged masterpieces,
of immense literary and religious value.
“We’ll
be doing a musical version of my father’s ‘Bhagavad Gita’ that he had translated
into the language and meter of the Ramayan. In this, the centenary year
of my father’s existence I can think of no better tribute,” said the proud
son.
As
a singer Amitabh has been actively doing his own playback from “Mr. Natwarlal”,
“Silsila” to “Nishabd” and “Baabul” and “Bhootnath”.
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