Naseer-Roopa Ganguly team up for Usha Uthup's music video

Naseer-Roopa Ganguly team up for Usha Uthup's music video
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:01 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Rabindra Sangeet in English? Who but Usha Uthup would ever imagine such a thing! The indefatigable Uthup has pulled it off. What's more, she has even roped in a very uncoventional pair of Naseeruddin Shah and Roopa Ganguly to emote to a whole Rabindra song in angrezi for a music video.

Naseer who has lately discovered a penchant for having a ball on screen, apparently let himself go completely to the moment.

Bengali actress Roopa Ganguly is in seventh heaven. "It's a very well-known Rabindra song ‘Koto baar bhebechhinu'. It's been translated into English for Usha Didi's song as ‘Drink To Only Me'. We had a ball shooting it.

It was my dream to work with Naseer. Somehow we kept missing working with each other for decades. When I was told Naseer was going to be part of this music video I just jumped at it. "

This the first time that either Naseer or Roopa would be seen in a music video.

Says Rupa, "It was like shooting a whole film. There was complete story in the music video. Naseer plays a photographer and I play the woman he once shot and never forgot. "

We now hear that Naseer enjoyed his brief stint with Rupa so much that he is ready to do a full-fledged feature film with her. Apparently Rituparno Ghosh plans to cast Naseer and Rupa together in a film based on novel by Rabindranath Tagore.

Interestingly Rupa and Rabindra Sangeet seem closely affiliated. She has sung some Rabindra Sangeet in her latest release Chaurahen. She has also won the National award this year for best female playback singer.

Laughing throatily she says, "People don't think I'm much of an actress. They took pity on me and gave me one for singing instead. "

About the music video Usha Uthup says, "It was such an honour and pleasure working with Naseer. He's a dear friend, and a sport. He agreed to do the music video in a jiffy.

Actually I've done a whole album of Rabindra Sangeet in English. But I could only afford one music video. Why an album of Rabindra Sangeet? Well, it's a long story. 42 years ago when I sang my first song on a public stage I chose an Irish song. I didn't know it had its roots in a Rabindra song.

When people pointed out the kinship between my Irish song and Rabindra Sangeet I was hooked. So you could say, global music began to exist my mind that day when I sang my first song on stage.

This album is a culmination of that process of globalization which began 42 years ago. "
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