Ek Tara @ Wake Up Sid

Ektara - Wake Up Sid

We all have dreams as a child and as we grow up, few of those dreams either die as they confront real life, while others are given up for more practical and economic considerations. Sad, but true. Wish if life was all about living, loving and following one’s dreams. Karan Johar’s WAKE UP SID, which is all set to release on 2nd October 2009, highlights Siddharth Mehra (Ranbir Kapoor), a lazy, unmotivated slacker from Mumbai whose life undergoes a series of changes after taking his final year college exams. Sid is a cool guy and avoids responsibilities. His life revolves arounds friends, camera, car and his X-box 360. Ranbir (Sid) doesn’t know what to do next and has no plans for his future. He spends his time hanging out with friends, watching TV, eating, sleeping and dreaming. Sid feels people should not be serious about life and take it as it comes. I wish, everyone thinks like this, we would not need any meditation and spiritual gurus.

Anyways, the film, is a Mumbai-based romance about urban relationships and revolves around a good looking young guy (Ranbir Kapoor) who falls for an older and simple woman (Konkona Sen Sharma), a writer from Kolkata.

WAKE UP SID, is directed by Ayan Mukherji and stars Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma in the lead roles. Supporting cast includes Anupam Kher, Supriya Pathak, Namit Das, Shikha Talsania, Rahul Khanna (in a special appearance) and Rahul Pendkalkar. The music of the film has been composed by the celebrated trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and lyrics by Javed Akhtar.

My song Ek Tara is a melody number that explores the wandering nature of human mind, which travels many million miles everyday. The words, ‘Oh re manwa tu to bawra hai, tu kya sochta hai’ are beautifully written (and I hope I have sung them well too)… as they highlight the state of everyone’s mind. Overall the song is very catchy (not because it’s mine song) but because it relates to most of us at some point in our lives…

Wake Up… for life!

Yeh Mera India

Yeh Mera India or YMI movie is hitting the theatres today. It’s a social movie and touches many topics in the societal context. Directed by N Chandra, the film focusses on minority rights, urban migration, reservation, corruption etc. 'Yeh Mera India' tries to explore the reality behind the myriad news reports that we see on the television and read in the newspapers everyday. Most of us tend to take it in a very normal sense, since the happenings are very far away from us. We hardly try to look behind the violence and atrocities that are taking place around us or find their root cause. This is where the movie steps in and tries to make us explore the real truth.

I have provided music, lyrics and sang for three (out of four) songs in the movie. All songs are thematic or situational.

First song of YMI 2009 music is “Bansuri”. The song begins with “Kabhi Socha Hai Ki Bansuri Ki Sur Me Itna Dard Kyoun Hai… Kabhi Socha Hai Ki Surkh Is Sarir Me Itna Ehsas Kyoun Hai…” The song begins with a slow-paced music but soon it turns in a vocal music.

“Dil Mandir” is next song in the movie. It is a purely devotional song and inspired by my Sufi style of singing. The song begins with “Dil Mandir Hai… Dil Mashjid Hai… Dil Mandir Hai… Dil Mashjid Hai… Dil Mandir Hai… Dil Mashjid Hai… Dil Mandir Hai… Dil Mashjid Hai… Dil Hi Rab Ka Ghar Hai…” It is one of my favorite songs and I hope Yeh Mera Audience likes it too…

“Aap Roothe Rahe” is another song which is folk based with slow paced music. The song also begins with a piano music and is a soft catch number…with excellent lyrics..

“More Naina” is last song of YMI. The song style is very much similar to “Aap Roothe Rahe” and is a romantic number.

My hope is that, YMI is liked by audience and moreso, if people enjoy the soft and vocal songs in the movie.

I look forward to your feedback. Do let me know, if you like these songs..

Cheers,

Kavita
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Kavita Seth's tribute to the victims of Mumbai Attacks .This Song was specially made for NDTV Lyrics written by Raaz Urf S.Goel.

Kavita Seth performed at IIT Mood Indigo, Mumbai.

Sufi Singer Kavita Seth performs at IIT Mumbai

Need to finish the Extremism -- Kavita Seth on Mumbai Attacks

After 26/11, I’m numb and I’m very depressed to see all the drama on TV. We see the people of India – so helpless. We don’t know what to do now. This is the mental State of every Mumbaikar.
But few things we have to find – what is the root cause of this kind of Terrorism? What they want? How much we care for our country, city, society, and colony.
It starts from home. People who belongs (specially gunned man) from neighbor country, who also attacked on Mumbai, New York, Lahore are poor, illiterate. The person or groups behind these people have mastermind, these are just like (Pyada) or Mohra. They can do anything for money.
But it is our -: every citizen of India -: individual duty to stand up and take care of his home from outsiders. For this we need honest, anti-corrupted, dedicated citizen, who can’t sell their self respect for some coins.
People are talking about attack on the neighbor country, but revenge is not the solution. We have to make the people alert and spread the message of peace not hatred.

Sufi is above all the religion. It reaches humanity, tolerance. I just want to spread the message of peace by Sufi sangeet to make people connect with love to God.

Sufism - The message of love
Sufism is love and affection. It is the cure for hatred and nothing more. Sufism is the path of faith and affirmation of unity. This is the incorruptible religion.
Sufism is, in it's essence, the way of love. Love is considered to be a spiritual alchemy by means of which the basic quality of a human being are transformed into higher ones.
Try to make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.
THERE IS ONLY ONE RELIGION -- LOVE
THERE IS ONLY ONE LANGUAGE -- OF THE HEART
THERE IS ONLY ONE CAST -- HUMANITY
THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.