Along with his iconic baritone, Agnee’s Kannan Mohan stands on the cusp of a 15-three hundred and sixty five days anniversary along with his bandmate, Kaustabh ‘Koco’ Dhavale. Other than the crew’s lengthy-standing success with self sustaining tune, they’ve moreover cautiously straddled Bollywood’s musical trends over the previous two a protracted time, most steadily producing classics corresponding to Shaam Tanha, Kabira, and Aahatein, to disclose a few.
Most no longer too lengthy within the past, Mohan lent his vocals to Kahani — a success observe penned for Aamir Khan-starrer, Laal Singh Chaddha.
We sat down for a chat with the singer, uncovering mighty of his trip working on Kahani with lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya and composer Pritam, as smartly as his thoughts on the 15 years of Agnee passed by.
Expose us about how Kahani first and foremost took shape for Laal Singh Chaddha.
“I was as soon as first known as to dub Kahani in 2019, when it had appropriate been easy. All people at Pritam’s was as soon as raving regarding the lyrics that Amitabh had written and what struck me straight away was as soon as the simplicity of the composition by Pritam and the profoundness of Amitabh’s lyrics. It was as soon as a pleasing mix of understandable, hummable melody and words but the total lot of the tune by some skill conveyed deeper which blueprint at every hear. The tune then had appropriate one antara (verse) but, appropriate a few months within the past, one other antara got added to it.
It was as soon as a tough tune to verbalize, as I needed to display screen out to enlighten the emotion as smartly as I may perhaps presumably presumably without relying on singing histrionics… and I constantly primarily feel primarily the most engrossing songs are the toughest to achieve, whether it’s the composition, the lyrics or the singing. I’m happy I had the assist of Akash and Aniruddh from Pritam’s crew, who helped me enlighten the tune the very top blueprint it wanted to be done. It’s a pleasing feeling to be part of a tune that’s as nice as this one!”
There’s something very pure and straight forward about this tune – it feels reasonably contemporary in comparison with many present movie tune launches. What does Kahani point out to you?
“I totally agree that there’s something very pure and straight forward regarding the tune… I have confidence Pritam and Amitabh cracked that by make in preference to unintentionally. They knew they needed to be right to the character of Laal Singh Chaddha as this tune fine mighty sums up the philosophy of the character and the movie.
What Kahani technique to me is mighty extra deepest. I’ve constantly believed within the announcing, “God helps those that relief themselves” and so the lines “Yeh Hatheli Ki Lakeeron Mein Likhi Saari Hai, Ya Zindagi Humaare Iraadon Ki Maari Hai” ring very right for me. Plus, my reference to the tune moreover has to raze with my loving the tune and having fun along with your total direction of of the dub for the duration of my varied sessions.”
Congratulations on winding up 15 years together as Agnee. How raze you primarily feel having a concept encourage on the decade-and-a-half passed by? How have you ever every modified in that time?
“Each and every Koco and I the truth is don’t primarily feel cherish it’s been a lengthy period, to be appropriate. We’ve had a splendid time fine mighty for the duration of this go and are having a concept forward to many extra years doing what we cherish primarily the most: making tune and participating in it.
We’ve every modified over time… I have confidence Koco’s ventured mighty extra into production than he had within the previous, and has broadened his skill plight to comprise reasonably various programming and that widens the spectrum of sounds that we hold to comprise within the band. Each and every of us have taken bits from every other and included every other’s pondering subconsciously within the ways we blueprint songs, I wager. I’ve moreover had the different to work with many composers for playback, and there’s constantly something that stays with me as a studying, whether it’s working with legends cherish SEL, Pritam, Amit Trivedi or working with newer composers.
Every dub is a combination of some contributions from me and some learnings for me from them, so it’s constantly stress-free! Agnee’s planning to originate around 25 songs this three hundred and sixty five days, and I have confidence every of those songs will showcase some part of how we’ve progressed as musicians… we’re very excited and completely having a concept forward to the releases.”
Engaged on an Aamir Khan movie have to be thrilling — how was as soon as it cherish working with him?
“Right here’s the 2nd time I’ve worked on an Aamir Khan mission. The predominant was as soon as for an advert a protracted time within the past for Samsung, where Aamir was as soon as the model ambassador. Amit Trivedi had easy the tune and Gulzar Saa’b had written the lyrics. That was as soon as the first advert I had sung.
I moreover interacted with him a itsy-bitsy bit bit for the length of Katti Batti, when he had heard the tune Ove Janiya, easy by Shankar Ehsaan Loy and written by Kumar, and had reached out to me to verbalize it any other time as he felt a few of the lyrics is liable to be less advanced than the unusual draft. Even then, he struck me as any individual that knew precisely what he was as soon as speaking about and was as soon as in a plight to be in contact the identical without any ambiguity and peaceful never making an artist primarily feel cherish he was as soon as telling them raze their job.
With Kahani, when I met him and Advait, the director, it was as soon as extra to raze with my rendition of the 2nd antara and how he felt that a few of the words can also moreover be a itsy-bitsy bit extra enunciated while maintaining the feel of the tune intact. He moreover took the time to conceal to me how he planned to market the songs and that he was as soon as very alive to to originate them purely on audio first, and that moreover made me realize why he was as soon as so particular about every syllable within the tune.
When Amitabh or Pritam had any suggestions that had been opposite to his notion, he would be cosy to defer to their notion on musicality and that struck me as very frigid. All in all, it was as soon as a pleasure singing this tune, and I’m happy the tune is doing smartly and folk appear to be primarily having fun with paying attention to it!”