His voice is perhaps the most valuable asset in his personality and what better use could Big B make of this voice than record the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ Hindu religious chant and get geared up for a new musical interpretation of his father’s version of the Bhagavad Gita.
Yes, Big B has recorded this divine and heavenly chant in his voice and the trailers of this will be relesed in September. But Amitabh Bachchan is already excited and sure of this work of his. He says,
‘Wherever I’ve played the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ so far people have found it to be a divine experience - hair-raising, goose bumpy, that’s how the endeavour has been described so far. I guess it’s more to do with the nature of the project than the singing. There’s a deep connect with the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ in perhaps every Hindu home. We’ve all grown up reciting it. It still plays an important part in our lives.’
But Big B’s turn to spirituality and devotion doesn’t end here. He has also soemthing for his father, late poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan. ‘Aadesh and I will now be collaborating over a new interpretation of the ‘Bhagavad Gita’. It’s one of my father’s unknown and unacknowledged masterpieces, of immense literary and religious value. We’ll be doing a musical version of my father’s ‘Bhagavad Gita’ that he had translated into the language and meter of the Ramayan. In this, the centenary year of my father’s existence I can think of no better tribute,’ said the proud son.
After doing playbacks for ‘Mr. Natwarlal’, ‘Silsila’ to ‘Nishabd’ and ‘Baabul’ and ‘Bhootnath’, this sure is a welcome step from this Bollywood superstar.
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