Dutt's song too good to be left out of Aladdin
Everyone
who"s
someone
in
the
film
industry
knows
Sanjay
Dutt
loves
to
sing.
He
did
so
in
the
two
Sanjays"-
Chhel
and
Gupta"s
Khubsoorat
and
Zinda,
and
he
even
sang
with
Asha
Bhosle
in
her
album.
But
a
song
in
the
somewhat
delayed
Aladdin
was
just
not
on
the
anvil.
So
how
did
the
over-committed
Dutt
end
up
not
only
singing,
but
also
acting
for
the
song
last
week?
Simple!
Director
Sujoy
Ghosh
made
Sanjay
an
offer
he
couldn"t
resist.
Says Sujoy, “Dutt Saab - that"s what I call him, after his dad"s demise sang the track “Maya" for my film Home Delivery, though he wasn"t a part of the cast. For Aladdin my music composer Vishal created a song “Giri giri re bijuriya", which was supposed to be the signature theme for Dutt Saab"s character named Ringmaster."
The character is apparently a blend of rogue and angel, with a touch of the supernatural. Before they could think of a suitable singer for Dutt, the actor himself was hooked to the beat. Says Sujoy, “Though he didn"t know it, we always intended to get him to sing it. No one else could have. And I was overjoyed when Dutt Saab agreed. It is a very cool song. And he"s done justice to it."
Once the song was recorded, Sujoy convinced Dutt that they must shoot for it. “Why let it go to waste? I convinced Dutt Saab to act in the song. It was too good a song not to shoot, it would"ve amounted to criminal wastage of good pop art."
Now Sujoy is in a dilemma about putting the Sanjay Dutt item into the film. “Aladdin is already complete. I can"t find a place for it! But the way my choreographers Bosco-Caesar have shot the song, it"s too cool to be used only as a promotional video. They"ve chorus dancers somersaulting in the air, foreigner - dancers doing flips…it"s a dream come true for me as a director, how can I leave audiences out of it."
Sujoy now intends to slip the song into the film. “I can"t let it go to waste by using it only as a promotional film. Even if I did, my producers would never allow it." Sujoy plans to either incorporate the Dutt song in the plot, or use it in the end titles.