What can I say about Mahabharat? It changed the course of my career such that nothing I did before the Samay and, in fact, after that iconic voice role mattered! I became Samay and, in a manner of speaking, froze in time. And yet they call me the Timeless Voice!
This is an album composed & curated by Shri Ajit Sheth, who was my mentor. He believed in me more than I did in my no-going-back struggle period. He trusted me with two major radio shows, after which there was no looking back. Thank you Ajitbhai, wherever you are. This is definitely one of my landmark recordings. On Spotify:
When I learnt to read & write Urdu – from a schoolmate who had studied the language up to the second grade (!) – little did I imagine that I will imprint my voice on a planetarium show in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca. I think that’s true Karma!
Gayatri mantra. Apart from being, possibly, the most popular mantra, its album is somewhat historic. The music company Times Music was launched with this album. It went on to create a popularity record of sorts – 750,000 copies soon upon being published! It was also my first recording for a major album.
World’s tallest statue – nearly double that of the Statue of Liberty – is the new icon of India. It’s awe-inspiring, breath-taking, unreal… really, it defies adjectives. What a unique privilege to have recorded its light-&-sound show – for posterity!
Siddhartha: Nobel Laureate Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha, is set in ancient India around the time of the Buddha (6th century BC). Although Buddha’s real name was Siddhartha, the protagonist of the novel, also called Siddhartha, is merely influenced by the philosophy of Gautama Buddha in search of enlightenment. This was the first audiobook recorded by an Indian voice artiste for…
देवस्वन: – The Voice of God Watch Video Of my 28,000 (and counting) recordings to date, I would rank this in the first five best rendered scripts – an experimental film in ‘the language of the Gods’ by the celebrated avant-garde German experimental filmmaker Bernd Lützeler for the festival circuit – my second outing with him. It was supervised –…