All tracks of Don will become very popular: Shankar

Don’s music is making waves all over. With the music becoming immensely popular as the day is passing, we chat with Shankar Mahadevan about the music of Don and his views on it.

Your highly awaited Don’s music has released. How are you feeling? Oh yes, we are very excited about this because this is a soundtrack we were really looking forward to and finally it is out in the market. We just hope we get a good response.

So what is the USP of the soundtrack?
Well the film itself is a cult film. So this is kind of a dedicational remake of the original DON. The essence of the film is maintained. It has a packing edge. We have retained two songs – ‘Khaike Paan Banaraswala’ and ‘Yeh Mera Dil’ and we have composed three new tracks, so I hope people like it.

While reworking on the original tracks how much work went into keeping the sound similar to the old tracks but also refreshing it at the same time?
To tell you in simple words, we have retained the melody but we have changed the dressing and we have added some surprise elements especially in Khaike Paan Banaraswala because Sharukh is featured in a particular part where he is singing in the song. So that is very interesting.

Shahrukh sings in Khaike Paan Banaraswala. Tell us about the other singers in the film.
Well there is a song called Morya Morya, which is a Ganpati song, which is sung by me and it’s a beautiful song. It already has got very popular since the Ganesh festival is going on, which is very big in India. Then there is a song called Aaj Ki Raat which is a very interesting, club kind of a song which is sung by Alisha, Mahalakshmi Iyer along with Sonu Nigam. Then there is the new title song, which is sung by Shaan. Khaike Paan Banaraswala is sung by Udit along with Shahrukh. And then there is Yeh Mera Dil which is sung by Sunidhi Chauhan. So that is pretty much the album. There are two soundtracks given. One done by Randolf. He has done a wonderful job of the DON title song. We have also given a dedication to the earlier Don title song. We have incorporated that in this track. Then there is a remix, kind of a club mix for the title song, which is done by the medieval pundits.

Tell us about the young kind of feel to the album.
It’s basically keeping in touch with the kind of film. The film is very stylish, very modern. It is not set twenty years back. It is set in today’s world. So we had to keep that in mind. The way its shot, the way it is cut, the characters of the film. All the characters are very modern, trendy and very stylish. So we had to keep the music also very modern, trendy, cutting edge, modern grooves with modern instrumentation. So basically, this goes with the film.

Let’s talk about the track Aaj ki raat. It’s got a very retro kind of a sound to it. Very young and very vibrant. How did you do that?
It is all a result of jamming and being with a person like Farhan Akhtar, who himself is a musician at heart and understands what new music is all about.

Which track according to you will be the most popular?
All of them. I can put that to you in writing. It has always been in the past that the albums that we do, all the songs become popular, like everyone loved all the songs of Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. Similarly, all tracks of Don will become very popular.

Have you seen the movie yet?
Yes we have seen the film since we have done the background score too.

Tell us something about the film.
All I can say is, It Rocks.

Anything else you want to say about the soundtrack.
All I can say is that, it’s a great soundtrack and I am sure everybody is going to enjoy it.

Audio clip courtesy: Sabras Radio [U.K]

Source: IndiaFM