“Punjabi music has been popular ever since cinema started. There is a saying in our country.” Jatinder Shah, Musician

What did you pay special attention to while composing the music for this song?
The tunes of its music are melodious. We composed it keeping in mind the alpha of the song. Look, you must also know that there is a sound in the word itself. I have also made Shreya Ghoshal sing in my films. But this is his first Punjabi song. She herself was very happy when I told her the alphabets of the song. When we planned it, there was a lockdown. It was not possible to meet like this. Shreya Ghoshal has made a studio here. Working in C studio, recording the song in her own voice, Shreya Ghoshal sent it to us. There were some corrections in it, after doing that I informed him, then he again sang it and sent it to us. Then we recorded the song taking all the precautions of Corona. His voice in this song is being praised a lot in the Punjabi music world. I am in touch with many people in Bollywood too. Everyone is saying that Shreya Ghoshal has sung very well. Prateik Babbar is also being liked a lot in Punjab. Prateik Babbar’s father Raj Babbar has a deep and long-standing relationship with Punjab. Our Punjabi industry is running parallel to Bollywood. The Punjabi film industry has been running from Lahore since the time of black and white cinema. In between, when Punjabi films stopped making, Raj Babbar ji felt sad. After leaving NSD, when his film ‘Aaj Ki Awaaz’ became successful, he went to Punjab and asked the filmmakers of Punjab to make a film, and they would help. He acted in many successful Punjabi films like ‘Chan Pardesi’, ‘Marhi Da Diva’, ‘Long The Lashkara’. In today’s date, the people of Punjabi film industry are very excited about Prateik Babbar. People are admirers of Prateek that he does not consider Punjabi films any different.
Why do you give more music for Punjabi albums and Punjabi films?
I have composed music for a few Hindi films including ‘Second Hand Husband’ and still have composed music for some Hindi films. In fact, every person has his own strength. So there it has some good and bad things too. There are some bad things in me too. I am a very stubborn person. I prefer to do films only as a solo musician. I must have done 115 Punjabi films as a solo musician till now. I enjoy soloing an entire album as a musician. Even while living in Mumbai, I give music for Punjabi films.
These days Punjabi music is more popular than Hindi. Any particular reason for this?
I think Punjabi music has been popular ever since cinema started. There is a saying in our country – “Music is born in Rajasthan, youth is born in Punjab and old age is spent in Bengal.” You see in Bengal, every human being is given basic education in music. In Punjab we learn less, but being young means a beautiful era. When a person is born, there are so many problems in him. All children look alike. But we are fortunate that Punjabi music has been popular since the sixties. Many Punjabi musicians, including OP Nayyar, have dominated Bollywood as well. Laxmikant Pyarelal may have been from Goa, but Anand Bakshi was from Punjab, so Laxmikant Pyarelal also composed a lot of Punjabi music. But what Bollywood means is that Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bhojpuri can present all the colors in it.

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