‘Tell Guy Ritchie I want to sing the next Bond song’
20 April 2013 5:30 AM IST
She’s dabbled with the media, she’s had her time behind the TV cameras and life seems to have come full circle for Malini Banerjee as she steps back in to the world of music.
A complete Delhi girl, Malini seems to have morphed easily from a world where her first love, singing (writing comes a close second) took a reluctant back seat. ‘Till last summer I was with the media,’ says Malini as we ask her about her foray in to the other side. ‘I am an Economics graduate, I did my mass communication from Symbiosis and I have had my stint as a sports journalist and a producer,’ she adds. Phew!
So what happened between heading the music society in Miranda and hearing her voice on the speakers again for a cover of Adele’s Skyfall? Heartbreak, comes the reply, albiet with a smile. Sounds like Adele’s story we add – and she couldn’t agree more. She totally adores the singer.
So what about the next Bond track, would she sing it? ‘If you know Guy Ritchie, put in a good word for me,’ laughs Malini.
‘My father had a lot of role to play in my return to music,’ explains Malini. With her mother as her first teacher, she has learnt classical music for seven years and is now training with Hemanta Kumar’s son-in-law (‘The same guy who trained Shaan,’ she interjects). But despite such a strong base, Malini took her time to give it all up and return to what she does best. Sing.
‘I love singing,’ she says all excited. ‘I could sing anything, anywhere, streets of Austria, in Indianna, I don’t care!’ While she has experimented with sufi, country, rock and roll, soul, jazz and even commercial item songs, secretly this girl dreams of being on stage in a heavy brocade and a gajra singing a thumri.
Malini admits that 2013 will make or break it for her, but she is finally ready to go full throttle with what she needs to do to hit the right notes. Literally. But the lady has not stopped her other forays. She is also writing a story for a potential Bengali movie script.
She had not taken on the music scene because she was not ready to struggle, she accepts, but now it is a whole different ballgame. Though she says she is in no hurry for Mumbai, she is in talks with quite a few known names in the industry.
‘I did not think singing was cool in India, nor was writing or film-making, but with time my perspectives altered,’ says Malini and she is glad that she is back living her life the way she wants it.
Malini is back in Delhi for her second performance at the Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre on 23 April. Head over. You would not want to miss this.
A complete Delhi girl, Malini seems to have morphed easily from a world where her first love, singing (writing comes a close second) took a reluctant back seat. ‘Till last summer I was with the media,’ says Malini as we ask her about her foray in to the other side. ‘I am an Economics graduate, I did my mass communication from Symbiosis and I have had my stint as a sports journalist and a producer,’ she adds. Phew!
So what happened between heading the music society in Miranda and hearing her voice on the speakers again for a cover of Adele’s Skyfall? Heartbreak, comes the reply, albiet with a smile. Sounds like Adele’s story we add – and she couldn’t agree more. She totally adores the singer.
So what about the next Bond track, would she sing it? ‘If you know Guy Ritchie, put in a good word for me,’ laughs Malini.
‘My father had a lot of role to play in my return to music,’ explains Malini. With her mother as her first teacher, she has learnt classical music for seven years and is now training with Hemanta Kumar’s son-in-law (‘The same guy who trained Shaan,’ she interjects). But despite such a strong base, Malini took her time to give it all up and return to what she does best. Sing.
‘I love singing,’ she says all excited. ‘I could sing anything, anywhere, streets of Austria, in Indianna, I don’t care!’ While she has experimented with sufi, country, rock and roll, soul, jazz and even commercial item songs, secretly this girl dreams of being on stage in a heavy brocade and a gajra singing a thumri.
Malini admits that 2013 will make or break it for her, but she is finally ready to go full throttle with what she needs to do to hit the right notes. Literally. But the lady has not stopped her other forays. She is also writing a story for a potential Bengali movie script.
She had not taken on the music scene because she was not ready to struggle, she accepts, but now it is a whole different ballgame. Though she says she is in no hurry for Mumbai, she is in talks with quite a few known names in the industry.
‘I did not think singing was cool in India, nor was writing or film-making, but with time my perspectives altered,’ says Malini and she is glad that she is back living her life the way she wants it.
Malini is back in Delhi for her second performance at the Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre on 23 April. Head over. You would not want to miss this.
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