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Movie Review: HAIDER by FENIL SETA
6:17 PM
What a week this has been! Two big films clashed and both turned out to be diverse and as good as the other! Bang Bang was a rocking big-budget entertainer and Haider too turned out to be a very interesting fare. Apart from the fact that Haider boasts of superlative performances, plot, music and cinematography, what’s praiseworthy is that it’s the first mainstream film as far as I remember that boldly touches on the horrible Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) implemented in Kashmir since a long time. While most Hindi films based in Kashmir portray the hero as a brave armyman fighting for the honour of the country, Haider makes a brave attempt by touching upon key facts that are not discussed even in media most of the times. And the execution is too good. In other words, Haider is one of the must-watch films of 2014!
The story of the movie: Haider Meer (Shahid Kapoor) has returned back to his hometown in Kashmir after finishing studies and learns that his father Dr Hilaal Meer (Narendra Jha) has disappeared thanks to the armed forces. As Haider tries to search for his lost father, he gets surprised as he finds the behavior of his mother Ghazala (Tabu) and chacha Khurram (Kay Kay Menon) and their closeness fishy. Haider faces a lot of obstacles as expected. How he unearths the truth and how it transforms him and also his loved ones is what Haider is all about.
Haider is nearly 160 minutes long and moves at a not-so-fast pace. It isn’t a typical entertainer either. And no complaint in that regard as well as the film is extremely engrossing right from the very start! Kashmir has been never depicted in this fashion and that brings about the freshness. As aforementioned, the AFSPA bit is something new as well in mainstream Hindi cinema and that also works in Haider’s advantage. While a few bits are predictable, the film overall follows the ‘expect-the-unexpected’ formula. For most part of the film, one can never guess what’ll happen next. This applies especially in the climax – beautifully shot and immensely impactful!
Having said that, Haider could have been bit shorter, especially in the second half. The Vishal Dadlani version of Aao Na is missed a lot. But then, it’s praiseworthy on Vishal Bhardwaj’s part to not incorporate it for commercial reasons!
The performances take the film to another level. There’s not an iota of doubt that Shahid Kapoor gives his best performance in Haider! Often, the so-called commercial actors have a lot of untapped talent in them but because of the kind of films they do, it’s never exposed. Same happened with Shahid – he proved his versatility in romantic and comic avatars. But with Haider, he proves that he’s an all-rounder. Give him any role, guide him well and he can ROCK big time! Haider is no easy role but Shahid slips into the character effortlessly. He gets better in the second half. And watch out for his ‘Hello…hello…awaaz aa rahi hai’ speech. It’s unbelievable! Hats off to this powerhouse of talent and hope he delivers many such memorable roles!
Tabu has a very significant part to essay and delivers an outstanding performance. Her conversations with Shahid are brilliant to say the least! And it’s always a pleasure to see Tabu in such author-backed roles. In fact, her last memorable performance was almost 7 ½ years back in Cheeni Kum. Here’s hoping Tabu gets more and more interesting and irresistible offers post-Haider so that we can get to see her in a film soon!
Kay Kay Menon was brilliant in the recent Raja Natwarlal but the film was disappointing and hence, his performance went unnoticed. But in Haider, he’s at his best and with the film being so amazing, Kay Kay will surely get recognition and loads of praise. Watch out for him in the entry scene – he’s so awesome! Shraddha Kapoor (Arshiya) is lovely and though she has a supporting role, she leaves a mark. Irrfan Khan (Roohdaar) is the most ‘dhaasu’ character in the film! His heroic entry, with loud background score and all, is too good and performance-wise he is terrific. However, he only has a special appearance in the film. Narendra Jha dominates the beginning and does total justice. Another supporting actor that gives a splendid performance is Lalit Parimoo (as Arshiya’s father). Aamir Bashir (Arshiya’s brother Liyaqat) does well as per the demands of his character. Sumit Kaul and Rajat Bhagat are hilarious as the two Salman’s! Khulbhushan Kharbanda (Dr Hussain) and Anshuman Malhotra (young Haider) leave a huge impact.
Vishal Bhardwaj’s music adds to the beauty. The best without doubt is Bismil for its words, music and execution. Jhelum, Khul Kabhi and So Jao follow next. Background score is subtle and effective. Pankaj Kumar’s cinematography is stunning and one of the best in recent times. The beauty and mysteries of Kashmir are brilliantly captured by the lensman. Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray’s sets are as realistic as possible. Harpal Singh Pali and Ravi Kumar’s action is exciting but never goes overboard. Vishal Bhardwaj’s dialogues are sharp and acidic and enhance impact. Basharat Peer and Vishal Bhardwaj’s screenplay boasts of some excellent situations that are very well directed by latter. The conflict that the characters indulge in with each other is the highpoint of the film. This coupled with unpredictability factor takes the film many notches higher. Vishal showed the same stroke of brilliance in Omkara as well. While Kaminey was terrific, 7 Khoon Maaf and Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola lacked the magic Bhardwaj touch. But it’s great to see that he’s back with a bang (and sans any chutzpah). Hope he comes up with something as good or better in his next film!
Some of the best scenes:
1. The first 10 minutes
2. Haider meets his mother and chacha
3. Haider’s flashback
4. All scenes of Roohdaar
5. Haider finds out the truth
6. Haider’s speech at (what seemed like) Lal Chowk, Srinagar
7. Haider at his mother’s remarriage
8. Haider reveals his wild side to Arshiya
9. The songs Bismil, Aao Na, Jhelum
10. The last 20 minutes
On the whole, Haider is an intense, dark and extremely engaging film that deserves to be seen for it’s award-winning performances, direction, music and also the unpredictability factor and for being the first mainstream film as far as I know that bravely throws light on the horrors of the AFSPA act in Kashmir. Shahid Kapoor is bound to be seen with a lot of respect and in a new light after Haider. The film has been made in low costs and hopefully, it’ll recover its investment. We, the viewers, made Queen a huge hit earlier this year and kudos to us for that. Now let’s do a repeat with Haider. Let’s watch it in theatres, let’s recommend it to as many as possible and let’s make sure it’s seen by as many people as possible. Haider is a great film and it deserves all the success, critical and commercial!
My rating - **** out of 5!
Our films captured Kashmir's geography; in Haider, it is history that Vishal has created-Gulzar
9:24 AM
Priya Gupta (BOMBAY TIMES; September 28, 2014)
Vishal Bhardwaj calls
himself Gulzar sahab's alter ego, Gulzar sahab calls him his extension.
While Vishal has done most of his work with only Gulzar sahab, he
cherishes his working with Vishal as Vishal understands poetry and
allows him to get away with his experimentation. You see them together
and you can make out their love and respect for each other. Ahead of
Vishal Bhardwaj's upcoming film Haider, an adaptation of
Shakespeare's Hamlet, we talk to Vishal and not just his godfather, but
father, Gulzar sahab. Excerpts:
CONVERSATION WITH GULZAR SAHAB:
You have shot many films in Kashmir including Aandhi. What are your memories?
My daughter Bosky (Meghna) always longs to go to Kashmir as she grew up there. We used to go there every year and thus, many of her childhood memories are of Kashmir. In the 60s and the 70s, there was a tradition to picturise songs outdoor and the favourite destination was always Kashmir. At that time, it was a fantasy to shoot there and when we would sign an actor or actress they would always ask, where will the outdoor be picturised, hoping that the answer would be Kashmir. We had a regular driver there and can you imagine, his name was also Gulzar. Of course, the difference was that he was a Kashmiri. His children and grandchildren are still in touch with me. He lived in one of the bastis of Srinagar and we would go to his house to eat a meal even though we always put up in those days at the Oberoi. Many years later, when I was making Hu Tu Tu, I went to Srinagar to meet Amrish Puri ji, who was at that time shooting there, to offer him a role in the film. Kashmir was going through a bad phase at that time and I had gone after a long time. The hospitality industry had taken a beating and thus, Oberoi was operating only with one section. I told people there 'Main Gulzar ko talaash kar raha hoon'. They advised me against going out. Later in the evening, to my surprise, I found Gulzar waiting for me at the hotel lobby. He had come to know somehow that I was there. I had that kind of rapport even with the boatmen and people, who would take us to Char Chinar. On that small little land, there was a bar and a restaurant and we would have a drink there. Our films captured more of the geography of Kashmir; in Haider, it is history that Vishal has created. And that's the most beautiful part. It is for the first time that Kashmir will be shown in this kind of detail, be it of its people, places, mohallas or its journey. He has done everything I did, but in a better way. I have seen Haider. For me, Kashmir was not just a landscape. I also have a special connection with the river Jhelum, as I was born on the other side of it, in Dina in Pakistan. I knew and had a relationship with its people. Our films up till now have only showed the physical side, in Haider, he has shown the life of people that really touched me.
Kashmir has multi-faceted beauty. It is the only place where you will find a village to a hill station to a kasba to a waterfall to a jungle and that's the beauty of it and that is why, rightly so there is the famous proverb, that if there is a paradise on this earth it is here, it is here, it is here.
What does Vishal mean to you personally?
Can you imagine so many years back, I shot Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi Shikwa Toh Nahi song at the very same spot that he has shot Bismil song. In that song, I was looking at the presence of somebody to be there, without whom my life was not complete. So somebody came on that location to shoot on that location after 20 years and that is Vishal. Meri kami poori ho gayi. His shooting at the same location independently shows how souls meet. He is my son, my extension. It isn't easy to define the relationship I share with him. He is like a son, a brother, a disciple, a colleague, and a companion. It's a sharing of souls that is difficult to define. There are few relationships that you can't define. Vishal is the closest in that. It's a bond of belonging. Actually you will reduce it by defining it. It may sound very clichéd. A rose will not be the same if you peel off its petals. A rose will remain a rose only when it is together with all its petals.
Your view on Vishal's work?
As a director, he is in pace with the time and is reflecting it very strongly Thematically, I have said that before and even technically, his films will be treated as text books in film schools after 15 years. That's the big quality of his films. I have a difference of opinion with him, when he says that he has adapted Shakespeare though. I don't feel that they are adaptations. I feel they are original films. They remind me of my times and not of the ancient times. Yes, in his films there is a basic structure of placing of some characters from Shakespeare, that he has taken, but I don't know what else has inspired him. A story is an adaptation only with its characterisation. His adaptation, which I concede as he insists, is that of the common people and common struggle of my times as against in Shakespeare's plays that pertained to the feudal system and the monarchy and therefore, reflected their issues. Shakespeare was a great playwright and writer and I don't mean to take away his greatness, but in our democratic times, talking of the common people like Vishal does, is more closer to Munshi Premchand than Shakespeare.
Your favourite song from Haider?
There are two. The most popular one is Bismil. My favourite one is So Jao, the grave diggers. It has a depth and a philosophy behind it. Vishal and me differ in our expression. While he thinks it is black humour, I call it a philosophy.
The recent floods in Kashmir have done so much damage in reversing the trend of positive tourism...
It's a tragedy that has happened to people. It's actually an international affair, not a national affair. Since this is closer to us, we feel the hurt even physically, though emotionally you feel the same for any such international calamity. In Assam, every year it has been happening. Why should writers only from Assam write about it and not writers from others parts of the country? Military did a lot in Kashmir, but when political people start taking credit for it, it hurts a lot.
CONVERSATION WITH VISHAL BHARDWAJ:
What does Gulzar sahab mean to you?
My existence is because of him. What will you be without your father? Gulzar sahab is very emotional, but we all know that he is also very strict. If we make a mistake he needs to be harsh right? I feel in all these years he has disciplined me. And that's how I have learnt about life. I have learnt the value of time, the habit of coming on time. Delhi se jo bhi aata hai, woh punctual nahi hota hai. We all conveniently give the excuse of traffic when we reach late in Mumbai. But I have never seen him using that excuse and he still reaches early everywhere. We all feel scared if he calls us some where as we all know that he will reach ahead of time, so we need to reach 15 minutes before him. He told me one thing that I want to remind him that he taught me 'Never accept your own mediocrity' and that has become my mantra for life.
You have only worked with him mostly. Any special memories?
We have made so many of our songs in such strange places. We have made so many songs roaming around travelling together. Whenever we are travelling together, a song is made. We were writing antras of Ibn-e-Batuta standing in a line at the airport. We have made songs in a bus. I remember my first meeting with him. The first meeting was very special even though it is far away and looks like a fairy tale for me today. He was to come to a studio to compose an ad jingle and called me from Bengali sweets house in Delhi as he was not able to find the way to the studio. I asked him to wait there and went to pick him up. I remembered his entire collection of poems by heart and was obsessed with his poetry. Nobody has his kind of expression. Subconsciously, my fascination of Shakespeare comes from his film Angoor that to me is loosely based on The Comedy Of Errors. Ijaazat was my most favourite film. You always ape your father. Look at my kurta. I am also wearing white. I wear one more colour, that is black. Someone told me you are his alter ego and that is why you wear black.
Between the both of you, who is more stubborn?
Gulzar sahab said, 'I can give you my last word on that. Mujhe yeh maloom hai ki agar koi mere khilaaf bolega, toh yeh uspe patthar marega. I know he will take care of me. Yeh meri taraf hai.'
CONVERSATION WITH GULZAR SAHAB:
You have shot many films in Kashmir including Aandhi. What are your memories?
My daughter Bosky (Meghna) always longs to go to Kashmir as she grew up there. We used to go there every year and thus, many of her childhood memories are of Kashmir. In the 60s and the 70s, there was a tradition to picturise songs outdoor and the favourite destination was always Kashmir. At that time, it was a fantasy to shoot there and when we would sign an actor or actress they would always ask, where will the outdoor be picturised, hoping that the answer would be Kashmir. We had a regular driver there and can you imagine, his name was also Gulzar. Of course, the difference was that he was a Kashmiri. His children and grandchildren are still in touch with me. He lived in one of the bastis of Srinagar and we would go to his house to eat a meal even though we always put up in those days at the Oberoi. Many years later, when I was making Hu Tu Tu, I went to Srinagar to meet Amrish Puri ji, who was at that time shooting there, to offer him a role in the film. Kashmir was going through a bad phase at that time and I had gone after a long time. The hospitality industry had taken a beating and thus, Oberoi was operating only with one section. I told people there 'Main Gulzar ko talaash kar raha hoon'. They advised me against going out. Later in the evening, to my surprise, I found Gulzar waiting for me at the hotel lobby. He had come to know somehow that I was there. I had that kind of rapport even with the boatmen and people, who would take us to Char Chinar. On that small little land, there was a bar and a restaurant and we would have a drink there. Our films captured more of the geography of Kashmir; in Haider, it is history that Vishal has created. And that's the most beautiful part. It is for the first time that Kashmir will be shown in this kind of detail, be it of its people, places, mohallas or its journey. He has done everything I did, but in a better way. I have seen Haider. For me, Kashmir was not just a landscape. I also have a special connection with the river Jhelum, as I was born on the other side of it, in Dina in Pakistan. I knew and had a relationship with its people. Our films up till now have only showed the physical side, in Haider, he has shown the life of people that really touched me.
Kashmir has multi-faceted beauty. It is the only place where you will find a village to a hill station to a kasba to a waterfall to a jungle and that's the beauty of it and that is why, rightly so there is the famous proverb, that if there is a paradise on this earth it is here, it is here, it is here.
What does Vishal mean to you personally?
Can you imagine so many years back, I shot Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi Shikwa Toh Nahi song at the very same spot that he has shot Bismil song. In that song, I was looking at the presence of somebody to be there, without whom my life was not complete. So somebody came on that location to shoot on that location after 20 years and that is Vishal. Meri kami poori ho gayi. His shooting at the same location independently shows how souls meet. He is my son, my extension. It isn't easy to define the relationship I share with him. He is like a son, a brother, a disciple, a colleague, and a companion. It's a sharing of souls that is difficult to define. There are few relationships that you can't define. Vishal is the closest in that. It's a bond of belonging. Actually you will reduce it by defining it. It may sound very clichéd. A rose will not be the same if you peel off its petals. A rose will remain a rose only when it is together with all its petals.
Your view on Vishal's work?
As a director, he is in pace with the time and is reflecting it very strongly Thematically, I have said that before and even technically, his films will be treated as text books in film schools after 15 years. That's the big quality of his films. I have a difference of opinion with him, when he says that he has adapted Shakespeare though. I don't feel that they are adaptations. I feel they are original films. They remind me of my times and not of the ancient times. Yes, in his films there is a basic structure of placing of some characters from Shakespeare, that he has taken, but I don't know what else has inspired him. A story is an adaptation only with its characterisation. His adaptation, which I concede as he insists, is that of the common people and common struggle of my times as against in Shakespeare's plays that pertained to the feudal system and the monarchy and therefore, reflected their issues. Shakespeare was a great playwright and writer and I don't mean to take away his greatness, but in our democratic times, talking of the common people like Vishal does, is more closer to Munshi Premchand than Shakespeare.
Your favourite song from Haider?
There are two. The most popular one is Bismil. My favourite one is So Jao, the grave diggers. It has a depth and a philosophy behind it. Vishal and me differ in our expression. While he thinks it is black humour, I call it a philosophy.
The recent floods in Kashmir have done so much damage in reversing the trend of positive tourism...
It's a tragedy that has happened to people. It's actually an international affair, not a national affair. Since this is closer to us, we feel the hurt even physically, though emotionally you feel the same for any such international calamity. In Assam, every year it has been happening. Why should writers only from Assam write about it and not writers from others parts of the country? Military did a lot in Kashmir, but when political people start taking credit for it, it hurts a lot.
CONVERSATION WITH VISHAL BHARDWAJ:
What does Gulzar sahab mean to you?
My existence is because of him. What will you be without your father? Gulzar sahab is very emotional, but we all know that he is also very strict. If we make a mistake he needs to be harsh right? I feel in all these years he has disciplined me. And that's how I have learnt about life. I have learnt the value of time, the habit of coming on time. Delhi se jo bhi aata hai, woh punctual nahi hota hai. We all conveniently give the excuse of traffic when we reach late in Mumbai. But I have never seen him using that excuse and he still reaches early everywhere. We all feel scared if he calls us some where as we all know that he will reach ahead of time, so we need to reach 15 minutes before him. He told me one thing that I want to remind him that he taught me 'Never accept your own mediocrity' and that has become my mantra for life.
You have only worked with him mostly. Any special memories?
We have made so many of our songs in such strange places. We have made so many songs roaming around travelling together. Whenever we are travelling together, a song is made. We were writing antras of Ibn-e-Batuta standing in a line at the airport. We have made songs in a bus. I remember my first meeting with him. The first meeting was very special even though it is far away and looks like a fairy tale for me today. He was to come to a studio to compose an ad jingle and called me from Bengali sweets house in Delhi as he was not able to find the way to the studio. I asked him to wait there and went to pick him up. I remembered his entire collection of poems by heart and was obsessed with his poetry. Nobody has his kind of expression. Subconsciously, my fascination of Shakespeare comes from his film Angoor that to me is loosely based on The Comedy Of Errors. Ijaazat was my most favourite film. You always ape your father. Look at my kurta. I am also wearing white. I wear one more colour, that is black. Someone told me you are his alter ego and that is why you wear black.
Between the both of you, who is more stubborn?
Gulzar sahab said, 'I can give you my last word on that. Mujhe yeh maloom hai ki agar koi mere khilaaf bolega, toh yeh uspe patthar marega. I know he will take care of me. Yeh meri taraf hai.'
In 20 years, I've never heard anything like this in Indian cinema-Sukhwinder Singh on Bismil
7:45 AM
Roshmilla Bhattacharya (MUMBAI MIRROR; September 25, 2014)
Vishal Bhardwaj admits that Bismil, the climactic song of his upcoming film, Haider, took him months to compose because it was his expression of the Mousetrap in Hamlet. In William Shakespeare's original play, the Prince of Denmark invites his uncle and stepmother to a play he has created and from their expressions tries to gauge if what the ghost had told him is true.
"It's storytelling through a song, narration of a situation, the kind you see in a musical," points out Vishal who drew from his experience of collaborating on a Broadway musical with Mira Nair.
"Bismil is like a ballet you see on the European stage," seconds Sukwinder Singh who has sung it. "Only this one is set in reel life Kashmir."
Given that its rooted in the Valley, the filmmaker-composer was very clear that he wanted Kashmiri folk music. He hired local musicians to play the sarangi and the rabab and recorded with them in a studio there. While picturising the song, he even invited these musicians to the shoot and they joined Shahid Kapoor on stage.
Vishal blended Kashmiri folk music with western opera music, this time drawing from his experience of directed an English opera, A Flowering Tree. Scored by composer-conductor John Adams and based on a classic Indian folk tale written by Kannada scholar AK Ramnujan, the opera premiered in Paris in May, this year.
Once the tune was composed, he turned to Gulzar for the words. And his 'Kohinoor', as Sukhwinder describes him, didn't disappoint, coming up with the word Bismil which means wounded and is commonly used in the Valley.
"As a child I'd first heard the word Bismil at the dargahs I visited. It was short for Bismillah, the starting point for any successful project, and as a result it had a spiritual significance for me," points out Sukhwinder.
For Vishal, the singer was the obvious choice. "He's the only one who can give expression to such songs. Working with him is like jamming, he gives his inputs," he smiles.
Sukhwinder admits that it took him 20 minutes to get the mukhda right. Crooning the signature lines, Bismil bismil bulbul-e-bismil (bismil..), Mat mil mat mil gul se mat mil (mat mil..), Aye Bismil bismil bulbul-e-bismil, Mat mil, mat mil gul se mat mil, Bismil bismil bulbul-e-bismil, Aye dil-e-bulbul bulbul-e-bismil-Mushkil-e-dil bhi mushkil hoti hain, he points out that Gulzar's intelligent word play initially had everyone in the studio laughing. "Once I got the hang of it, the rest of the song flowed naturally," he reminisces.
Deflecting a query about how long it took them to complete the recording, Sukhwinder retorts, "Why would we watch the clock? We were not trying to set a record, only celebrating music." For him, a high point was when he heard the song playing at a night club in South Africa last week.
After recording Bismil, Sukwinder was surprised by another call from Vishal informing that he wanted to record another version of the song. "When are you free?" he asked. Sukhwinder offered to come along right away. "And there in the studio, right before my eyes, Ek Aur Bismil took shape. In 20 years, I've never heard anything like this in Indian cinema. Some people are congratulating me for singing jazz so well while others are saying I rock with country music," Sukhwinder smiles.
"A big thanks to Vishal and Gulzar saab who in this day and age, when drums are drowning out voices and lyrics are nothing more than a jumble of senseless words, have come up with a song like Bismil, twice over."
Vishal Bhardwaj brings Kashmiri folk music to Bollywood with Haider
7:52 AM
Eepsita Guha (BOMBAY TIMES; September 23, 2014)
When it comes to a Vishal
Bhardwaj film, you can count on good music. And Haider, starring Shahid
Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Tabu and Kay Kay Menon, is no exception. What
makes it special is that it has Vishal teaming up with Gulzar once
again.
Having collaborated on several songs like Chappa Chappa, Beedi Jalai Le, Namak Ishq Ka, Dhan Te Nan, Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji and Darling in the past, the duo has given music lovers many memorable numbers. This time around, staying true to the movie that is set in the Valley, they have created melodies, which have the beauty of Kashmiri folk songs to them.
Talking about the songs of Haider, Vishal says, “It has the flavour of Kashmir as well as the modern interpretation of its folk music. I got a chance to explore different genres of music in this album and that’s an exciting phenomenon for me.” Vishal Dadlani and Sukhwinder Singh have lent their voices to a song each, in the album. Dadlani has added his touch to the grungy rock track, Aao Na, which is climbing the music charts. Meanwhile, Sukhwinder is the voice behind Bismil. In fact, sensing the popularity of the track, the makers have launched a pumpedup version of it with Arabic beats, titled Ek Aur Bismil.
This film also marks Arijit Singh’s first association with Gulzar and Vishal. The singer has crooned two songs — Gulon Mein Rang Bhare, which is a rendition of Mehdi Hassan’s ghazal penned by poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Khul Kabhi Toh, a romantic number. Not to forget, Bhardwaj too, has lent his soulful voice to a song in the movie.
Haider, produced by UTV Motion Pictures, releases October 2.
Having collaborated on several songs like Chappa Chappa, Beedi Jalai Le, Namak Ishq Ka, Dhan Te Nan, Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji and Darling in the past, the duo has given music lovers many memorable numbers. This time around, staying true to the movie that is set in the Valley, they have created melodies, which have the beauty of Kashmiri folk songs to them.
Talking about the songs of Haider, Vishal says, “It has the flavour of Kashmir as well as the modern interpretation of its folk music. I got a chance to explore different genres of music in this album and that’s an exciting phenomenon for me.” Vishal Dadlani and Sukhwinder Singh have lent their voices to a song each, in the album. Dadlani has added his touch to the grungy rock track, Aao Na, which is climbing the music charts. Meanwhile, Sukhwinder is the voice behind Bismil. In fact, sensing the popularity of the track, the makers have launched a pumpedup version of it with Arabic beats, titled Ek Aur Bismil.
This film also marks Arijit Singh’s first association with Gulzar and Vishal. The singer has crooned two songs — Gulon Mein Rang Bhare, which is a rendition of Mehdi Hassan’s ghazal penned by poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Khul Kabhi Toh, a romantic number. Not to forget, Bhardwaj too, has lent his soulful voice to a song in the movie.
Haider, produced by UTV Motion Pictures, releases October 2.
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