Tanishk Bagchi on Table For Two: Music Composer Opens Up on Saiyaara Story and Global Charts Success

From wanting to become a pilot to becoming one of India’s most celebrated music composers — Tanishk Bagchi’s journey is a story of loss, resilience, and chart-topping hits.

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction and Welcome
2:14 - Origins of Saiyaan: Creation process and emotional journey
5:43 - Production Details: Month-long journey with extensive collaborations
8:17 - Industry Support: Reactions from Varun Dhawan and others
12:31 - Remix Discussion: Views on being called the "Remix King"
15:45 - Musical Background: Personal story about sister and career shift
19:22 - Collaborations: Work with Zara and connection with Salma Agha
22:08 - Views on Trolling: Approach to criticism and social media
25:39 - Studio Game: Collab or Cancel with various artists
28:15 - Studio Confessions: Personal stories and experiences
31:47 - Closing Remarks

This is Tanishk Bagchi like you’ve never seen him before — unfiltered, passionate, and proud of his musical journey.
Watch now and step inside the mind of one of Bollywood’s most versatile composers.

Credits:
Host: Shizaa Arshad Khan
Direction & Production: Gouri Prabhakar
Cinematography: PK Photography
HMU: Ankita Ingale
Editor: Arjun Nair
Editorial Head: Sunita Iyer

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Transcript

00:00Sayara, was it born out of a heartbreak?

00:04It's a product of pain.

00:06Pain?

00:07Yeah, it's a product of pain because it's not about me, it's about the entire system that was there.

00:13They were all going through heartbreaks.

00:15Creatively, the song, how long did it take to sort of like create all the songs for the movie?

00:21It was a long journey for me, whether it's music, but constructing the entire Sayara track and everything

00:29was itself a magic for me.

00:31When it was done, I couldn't believe that we made such kind of music.

00:36One line of feedback from a producer that didn't sit well with you.

00:41What did they say?

00:44I felt that they actually don't understand my music a lot.

00:49Wait, I'll tell you the name only. It's from this film.

00:52The session where you thought that, oh my God, this is going to be a disaster. I already know it.

01:01Who's mine?

01:03How difficult was it for you to, was it like sort of some sort of like a pressure to carry on forward a legacy?

01:11Initially, I didn't want to do music.

01:14What did it do then?

01:15I wanted to play a plane. I wanted to fly.

01:18And my mind was that I lost my sister in the family.

01:24And after that, because she was classically trained and she was the person like my mom and dad actually thought that

01:32that's what it is, that's what it is. So I left everything and then I started doing it.

01:36Welcome to Table for Dubai Asia Met, Tanish Bhakji.

01:41Thank you so much.

01:42How are you, first of all?

01:44Not been sleeping, tired, but at the same time happy.

01:50And I think it's time to rest a bit.

01:53Rest a bit, yeah.

01:54I think so, but I can't.

01:56A lot on the plate still.

01:58Lots.

01:59Still basking in the glory of the success.

02:01Not exactly, but for the other glories that are going to come.

02:05Okay.

02:06Okay.

02:07No, but tell me one thing.

02:08I have a very intriguing question that kind of intrigues my mind.

02:11Is that that Sayara, was it born out of a heartbreak?

02:18Because it definitely didn't look like something that would just compose for the heck of it.

02:24It's a product of pain.

02:26Pain.

02:27Yeah.

02:28It's a product of pain because it's not about me.

02:31It's about the entire system that was there.

02:34They were all going through heartbreaks.

02:36And whether it's Arsalan, whether it's Fahim, whether it's me and everybody.

02:42We were in a zone where we had lost our, you know, maybe our mind at some place.

02:51We were not able to focus because everything was like moving here and there.

02:55We didn't know where to go.

02:57And at that moment, I think Mohit sir came in our lives and he gave us a vision.

03:06And everything joined at that moment.

03:09And all our pain and everything went into the song.

03:12You know.

03:13And the song actually, the song that we made actually started healing us.

03:18If you think.

03:19Oh.

03:20And we actually became better when the song was done.

03:23So that's why the song itself is a journey for all of us actually.

03:27Yeah.

03:28So talking about Fahim and Arsalan.

03:30Yeah.

03:31The newcomers, right?

03:32Yep.

03:33And fab job, of course.

03:35Yeah.

03:36Like they sang it so beautifully.

03:37I'm sure they put your vision, like they completed your vision in a way.

03:42Yes.

03:43Right?

03:44Yeah.

03:45So how did you come across them?

03:46So I met them through a friend.

03:48So, because I work with so many people.

03:51But there's a friend of mine, Zara.

03:54Zara Khan, you must be knowing because.

03:56The singer.

03:57Yeah.

03:58We have worked in so many films.

03:59An actor, singer.

04:00And she's Salma's daughter.

04:02Yeah.

04:03So, she told me that there is, there are three Kashmiri people.

04:08Like, good young talent.

04:11Can I bring them to you?

04:13Oh.

04:14And I said, it's a very good thing that you're helping.

04:16So she's always like that.

04:17She helps people.

04:18So, I said, yes, definitely.

04:19When I said that, I knew that it would be good.

04:22So, last day I think.

04:24They were here like for two weeks.

04:25And they didn't meet me before.

04:27Last days.

04:28And when we actually started talking.

04:29I heard their tracks.

04:30Like the songs that they make.

04:31They sing.

04:32And I came to know that Kashmir.

04:33There is a different industry that nobody has tapped.

04:46They have got rappers.

04:47They have got female singers.

04:48They have got male singers.

04:49They have got folk artists.

04:50They have got people tapped.

04:51They have got people tapped.

04:52So, Fahim and Asrana get through.

04:54They are just.

04:55They are just.

04:56They are just.

04:57They are just a part of the industry.

04:58Now, the rest of them are going to come.

04:59Correct.

05:00So, when I heard their songs, I promised them that.

05:03I am not somebody who will sign you.

05:06With me.

05:07Because I am giving you a break.

05:09Because.

05:10I had a struggle.

05:11And for me.

05:12For me.

05:13I would make the song to come to Mahit Suri.

05:15It's been to come 15 years for a month.

05:17Because I was working.

05:18And I was.

05:19So.

05:20I helped them.

05:21For me.

05:22After, I selected the songs.

05:24And then I decided.

05:25I will make those songs.

05:26Okay.

05:27Okay.

05:28I will produce it.

05:29I will structure it.

05:30And I will pitch it to people.

05:31And then I had more track with me.

05:33One of the tracks.

05:34Which was.

05:35Sahaan Meera.

05:36Okay.

05:37It was like a small section that they had done.

05:39I had heard the song and Fahim was listening to the guitar.

05:42I liked that song, Zone.

05:45So, I said, I will make it.

05:47And I said, you have to wait.

05:49I don't know when it's going to happen, what is going to happen.

05:52Maybe one, two, three years.

05:53But you have to wait for the right.

05:56And then I met Mohit.

05:58And I played so many tracks.

06:01Mohit loved all my songs that I was there.

06:03But I said, sir, I have another song.

06:05And I want to do it because I want to get this artist a platform.

06:10I can do it as well.

06:11He will also be a hit like Sajara.

06:13But I have to sing this song.

06:16And I listened to him and he loved it.

06:20And then I said, I want this song to be sung by Arsalan and Fahim.

06:25That's my first requirement.

06:27I don't want any big artist in this.

06:30So, he said, it's your song.

06:32So, whoever you want to sing, you can do it.

06:35And that is how the song was done.

06:36Then I got Fahim and Arsalan.

06:37I introduced them.

06:39And the rest, you know how it is.

06:41So, there was full creative liberty there.

06:43Yes, full on.

06:44So, I also heard that there was a point where you asked Mohit Suri, go out, let me do my work.

06:53Did that happen?

06:53It was not like that.

06:54See, with Mohit, sir, I told you, you know, because he has been in my life since wearing film half a girlfriend, sir.

06:59And the thing is that with him, it's like whenever I'm in some kind of a problem, I call him.

07:06Okay.

07:07It's like that kind of a relationship.

07:08And during this process of the song, because it's Mohit Suri and Mohit Suri is the big guy.

07:16And Fahim and Arsalan are star-struck people.

07:18They don't know this industry.

07:20So, they were a little, that Mohit Suri is the big guy.

07:25And we were like that.

07:26So, in some moments, it's like maybe the artist gets stuck.

07:31Okay, I think I'm going to be a big guy.

07:33So, there was such a moment where I felt like Mohit, sir, let us give them a little space.

07:40And once they are into the space, you come back.

07:44So, that was the main go-out scene.

07:46That's amazing.

07:47We'll talk about your musical journey further, but I want to stick to the movie right now.

07:54Creatively, the song, how long did it take to sort of like create all the songs for the movie?

08:01Because it was a sort of a musical journey.

08:03It's a musical.

08:04Mohit Suri's thing is that his film is like a music album.

08:08Exactly.

08:09Yeah.

08:10Song after song.

08:11It's a film, it's a song album.

08:12Beautiful song after beautiful song.

08:14So, it took time for him because he was searching for songs everywhere.

08:22I know that he has a vision.

08:24So, he knows what he wants.

08:26Correct.

08:27For Sanyara, it took me time because I had to produce the entire track, build it up from scratch, from nothing.

08:34So, it took me time, like a month to produce it.

08:37I produced the entire thing myself first.

08:40And then, he wanted like guitars and all.

08:44So, we got Kalyan Badua, who is one of the best guitarists here.

08:47From Assam?

08:48Yeah, he is from Assam and he is here.

08:51And he has been working with Mohit Suri since, I don't know, from the start.

08:55So, we got him and the string section I did in Chennai.

08:59The vocal choir is also there because I have people there also working for me.

09:03So, it was a long journey for me, whether it's music.

09:08But constructing the entire Sanyara track and everything was itself a magic for me.

09:14Like I was listening to the track, I was building it up.

09:17And when it was finally done, including the themes, I produced a lot of themes in the film.

09:23So, when it was done, I couldn't believe that we made such kind of music.

09:28Wow, that's amazing.

09:30So, after the music and everything was released, the film was released and it turned out to be what it is today, right?

09:37A big blockbuster.

09:38Whose phone call or message do you recall that stayed with you?

09:45Like that made you feel like, okay, wow.

09:48I think it's everybody.

09:49Yeah?

09:50It's everybody.

09:51It's like from the producer of the film to…

09:55From the industry?

09:56From industry, everybody called me.

09:57Really?

09:58Yeah.

09:59And Varun is one of my…

10:01I love him because he loves me a lot.

10:03Varun Dagan?

10:04Yes.

10:05And BD was here only.

10:07And BD called me and he told me what a track.

10:11And he respects music and he understands music like how.

10:14He immediately told me, what a song you made.

10:17What a song.

10:18Yeah.

10:19So, I think when you get appreciated by people you have worked with, like actors and all,

10:25you feel a little happy.

10:26Like you feel that they are watching you from that.

10:28Arjun Kapoor was there.

10:29Arjun messaged me and he told me, bro, you killed it.

10:32And he speaks very less with me.

10:34But inside, he loves my music.

10:37Because I did Half Girlfriend with him.

10:38Yeah.

10:39So, I think the entire industry loves me.

10:41Yeah.

10:42And it doesn't have to…

10:43I don't have to ask for people, do you love me?

10:44Do you love me?

10:45It's like inside.

10:46And they love my music.

10:47They support me in it.

10:48And Sayara proves it.

10:49Of course, it did prove.

10:51What about the cast of Sayara?

10:53Did you share a good rapport with them?

10:56Or like…

10:57So, honestly, I was not that close to anybody.

11:00Because my main focus was Mohit Suri.

11:03Okay.

11:04Because Mohit is…

11:05Not Ahan and Aneet.

11:06No.

11:07I met them long back.

11:08But after…

11:09Okay.

11:10Like maybe when I started dubbing for him, then…

11:12Him because Mohit sir wanted Ahan to understand how music is being made.

11:18And how Fahim actually sings it.

11:20Because he had to imitate him while shooting.

11:24Exactly.

11:25So, I think that is where I met Ahan.

11:27And once or twice.

11:29And I told him like, you know, you've got a face and I feel that this will take you somewhere.

11:35But again, I have seen biggest artists in this industry going up, being simple.

11:41And when they're up, they become shit.

11:43And they fall down.

11:45So, whoever comes, you come, I tell them that, you know, now you're innocent.

11:49You're flying.

11:50Remember that your ground is there.

11:51Yeah.

11:52Don't fly too high.

11:53Yeah.

11:54Because…

11:55You know…

11:56It's gone.

11:57Head up in the sky.

11:58Feet in the ground.

11:59Yeah.

12:00So, that is what I feel.

12:01And rest is history.

12:02What they will do next is their career.

12:04So, all the best to them.

12:06Yeah.

12:07But see, like you said, this song was made out of a heartbreak, right?

12:10Is there any other song that was made out of a heartbreak?

12:14Every song of…

12:15Every love song that I have done.

12:16What a love story.

12:17Your love life is tragic.

12:18You have to fall in love to understand the depth of it.

12:25It just can't…

12:26Because nowadays, I'll tell you, like you have one love story throughout.

12:30I have not seen anybody doing that.

12:32Because you don't find anybody like that.

12:34You're getting it.

12:35I have seen my life throughout.

12:37So, do you have a love story?

12:38I'm telling you.

12:39Listen to this story.

12:40Then you'll understand what's the story behind it.

12:41So, I always wanted somebody whom I can love and the person can love me.

12:46Without any expectation.

12:47Without…

12:48Without anything behind.

12:50Who Dhanish Bhakchi is.

12:51Who the other person is.

12:53So, I've never found that.

12:54It happened 3 years, 2 years.

12:56Then it's done.

12:573 years, 2 years, then it's done.

12:58But what happens then?

12:59Because I'm like a tree.

13:01I'm growing, growing, growing, growing, growing.

13:02And I've got layers inside me.

13:04The more layers, the more strong I become.

13:07And the more rooted I am.

13:09So, I'm growing.

13:10It's like fruits are all, but I'm a tree.

13:12I'm stuck at one place.

13:14So, everybody who comes into my life is a part of my life.

13:17Correct.

13:18I never let go.

13:19Even the person lets go.

13:20I don't do it.

13:21So, I think that's my main essence, my fuel.

13:25And I think whatever breakups I have or affairs I have, I had in my past.

13:30They all help me become a good person.

13:33Become more emotional, which I need.

13:35People are losing emotions.

13:36They're fighting.

13:37Wars are happening throughout, you can see.

13:39So, I think that's my personal partner's life.

13:44So, I think that's your recent heartbreak.

13:47That's right.

13:48I can tell you.

13:49How did it become a real?

13:50If it doesn't happen, then you won't get to know.

13:52If it doesn't happen, then you won't get to know.

13:53If it happens, then you will get to know.

13:54If it happens, then you will get to know.

13:55So, next song, the other one?

13:56No, it's not that I will wait for you.

13:58Every time I will wait for it.

13:59It's not that I will break my heart.

14:00Please.

14:01That's not that.

14:02It's my life.

14:04I mean, it will happen.

14:06Okay.

14:07Okay.

14:08Talking about music.

14:09You've had what I would say would be like a good run in the industry, but also sort of tumultuous run.

14:20Okay.

14:21Because you've somehow infamously been called the remix king.

14:25Okay.

14:26Nice.

14:27A lot of bashing came your way.

14:30I am sure you are familiar with that phase of your life.

14:34Do you feel that the industry has sort of like double standards in that way?

14:38Because that's exactly what everybody is doing now.

14:41Yeah.

14:42But for me, I will talk about this thing, about the remixes.

14:46I think I have done a good job.

14:48Yeah.

14:49Because the remixes that I have done, they have made the films.

14:52They have given them a huge platform, huge money.

14:57$1.2 billion or $7.2 billion.

14:59That is around $28 million business.

15:02From a musician.

15:03From a platform.

15:04So I think I have done quite a good commercially valuable person.

15:11And also there are so many artists that have come out, whether it's Nora Fateh from Dilbar.

15:17Or anybody.

15:18Whether it's Simba's eyes.

15:20So I have actually worked very hard on this.

15:24And look, the ones who are speaking, they are speaking.

15:28The ones who are not able to speak, they will speak.

15:30And the ones who are in the same way and the ones who are jealous, they will speak.

15:35But if I listen and listen, then I will stay in the same way.

15:38Correct.

15:39So I have to be a king in the remix.

15:41I will be king in the remix.

15:42I will be king in the remix.

15:44And I will leave it.

15:45I thought that I will close.

15:47But when I close it, there are so many remixes that have been wrong with the name of the remix.

15:53Then I realized that why I am leaving my king?

15:56I was making a Suki king.

15:58So I have to take control of the situation and start.

16:02And I am doing a couple of remixes and I know I am going to kill it in that.

16:05And at the same time, I made it a point that how Aakmare was there, I won for that.

16:10I won for Rata Lambia also film fair.

16:12So I have kept a balance.

16:14Rata Lambia is one beautiful track.

16:16Yeah, it is a beautiful track.

16:17I still listen to it.

16:18I am telling you.

16:19So things like that you have to have balance.

16:21And industry is actually beautiful.

16:23Not the industry which is not the industry.

16:26I am talking about the industry industry.

16:28They love music.

16:29They love films.

16:30Whether it is YRF.

16:31Whether it is Dharma.

16:32Whether it is Ushankoma T series.

16:35They are always open to good music.

16:37Correct.

16:38And they have been pushing good music from ages.

16:40That is why the industry is there.

16:42I think we are one of the top most industries in the world.

16:45And with Sanyara, I proved it.

16:48Being on the global charts number 4, number 5.

16:51So I think industry is doing quite well.

16:54But again, there are some people I can say that maybe they don't want me to shine that much.

17:04Because that is a threat.

17:06And again, because I am versatile.

17:10Versatile means if you give me a gift, then I will write it on the chart.

17:14I will write it on the chart.

17:15If you give me a remix, then I will write it on the chart.

17:17If you give me a creative, then I will be top.

17:19So that is a tough competition.

17:21No, but you said, you spoke about crown.

17:25Right?

17:26So Remixed King Kajab has a title.

17:28So it is safe to say that you wear it as a crown, not as a curse.

17:32It is a crown made of diamonds and Kohinoor.

17:35Why won't I wear it?

17:38I just want to wear it on my head.

17:40Not a problem.

17:42Talking about this industry as a whole.

17:46Do you think like for new people, you have a chance here, right?

17:51A lot of people say, you know, we keep reaching out to people.

17:55There is a lot of struggle that people have to go through.

17:58As musicians also.

17:59Actors as well.

18:01Everybody knows about musicians also.

18:03Do you think that it is important to have a big surname?

18:09Or do you think that it helps somehow to maybe have a godfather in the industry?

18:16See, what you are talking about is like, to get into the industry and get work.

18:22Right?

18:23What year it is?

18:24It's been a year.

18:25I have seen how many friends have.

18:26I mean, music is there.

18:28Look at the actors.

18:29How many actors have.

18:30How many actors have.

18:31How many things are happening.

18:32And they are doing it right?

18:33But one is the only one.

18:34Correct.

18:35Right.

18:36But everything, I was one of 10 billion people.

18:41In Kolkata.

18:42I was in a little room sitting there and make music.

18:45No world listened, no.

18:47From that little room, I got to the whole world.

18:50So, I took a journey.

18:52My social life is zero. It was always zero, but now it is zero.

18:58I don't go out, I don't feel like...

19:00You don't attend an industry success party.

19:02No, not that much. I'm telling you very much.

19:04I'm telling you.

19:05As a person who is not so social, he can be successful.

19:08He can make connections.

19:09So, anyone can do it.

19:11Okay?

19:12And it's not that people will only get a chance to be an actor.

19:18Or if I'm a singer, I'll get a chance to be my son.

19:21I don't like their films at all.

19:22But if I'm a singer, I'll get a chance to be my son.

19:23I'll get a chance to be my son.

19:24But when will I continue?

19:25I don't like their films at all.

19:30But watch their parents' films.

19:32Correct.

19:33So, they're honest.

19:34People will say good things and good things.

19:38Okay?

19:39Now, Aahan is a new person.

19:43Aahan is a family.

19:46But if you can see him in the film,

19:49You can see, he didn't have a treaty.

19:51That I'm from a star family.

19:53He didn't have a promotion or anything.

19:56No promotion of the film.

19:58That's the main essence.

20:00You have to be like that.

20:02A lot of people think in their mind,

20:04that if I'm in the film,

20:06I'll get more merit.

20:07That's not true.

20:08But do you think that as far as original tracks are concerned,

20:12Sayara did put you on the map.

20:15For critics, not commercially.

20:18For saying critics.

20:19People who criticized your music.

20:21Do you think that it shut them up for a while?

20:24Did it sort of like?

20:26Sort of like.

20:27Their mouth was closed first.

20:29It was closed first.

20:30Sayara, let me leave.

20:31So, now it's here.

20:32The first time they closed,

20:33their mouth was closed.

20:35It's closed because they don't have a doubt.

20:37In their house,

20:38the girl who is singing down to me,

20:40they are singing my songs.

20:41But if they are their daughter,

20:43or someone who is listening to me in the playlist.

20:45So, what's the value of Ocretist?

20:47The Ocretist is in himself.

20:49They have to realize themselves.

20:52They have to realize themselves.

20:53If they are doing good work,

20:55why are they talking to me?

20:56Why are they talking to me?

20:57Why are they talking to me?

20:58Why are they talking to me?

20:59Any underrated composer,

21:01or somebody from the music background,

21:05do you think currently is there?

21:08There are a lot of music directors.

21:10But I will take one name,

21:13not current.

21:14And I am a great fan of his work.

21:17And people don't know.

21:20It's like that.

21:21I have recreated their songs

21:23and made a blockbuster.

21:25His name is Vijusha.

21:27Okay.

21:28Vijusha,

21:29even when Rehman wasn't there,

21:31he was the creator of dance music

21:33for this industry.

21:34But people don't know.

21:36Whether it's Mohora,

21:37whether it's Aank Mare,

21:38whether it's Ek To Kam Zindagani.

21:42These are all his tracks.

21:43All Firoz Khan films.

21:45So I think he's one of the most underrated musician

21:48and brilliant,

21:49legendary living musician still now.

21:51And people are forgetting it.

21:53When he wasn't there,

21:55people would say,

21:56what a man was good,

21:57what music he was doing.

21:58Just like how R.D. Barman.

21:59When he was there,

22:00nobody cared to even do anything.

22:03When he passed away,

22:04people started saying,

22:05R.D. Barman, R.D. Barman, R.D. Barman.

22:06I would say,

22:07brother,

22:08what are you doing now?

22:09Correct.

22:10When a man is alive,

22:11go and help.

22:12So Vijusha is one of the biggest artists living.

22:14And I think people should find him

22:16and give him films.

22:18Yeah,

22:19yeah, yeah.

22:20But talking about this industry as a whole,

22:23like,

22:24you know,

22:25legacy carries forward.

22:28Okay.

22:29I'm sure you also have a music background.

22:33Okay.

22:34So how difficult was it for you to,

22:37was it like sort of some sort of like a pressure

22:40to carry on forward a legacy?

22:42Initially,

22:43I didn't want to do music.

22:44What did you do then?

22:45I wanted to play a plane.

22:47I wanted to play a pilot.

22:48I wanted to play a pilot.

22:50I wanted to play a pilot.

22:51And my cousins are pilots.

22:53Most of them.

22:54Okay.

22:55So you get free tickets?

22:57Free tickets.

22:58I get everything.

22:59I get photos here.

23:00When you go to Vanarashti,

23:02you can ask me to send me photos.

23:05Oh, sweet.

23:06So I wanted to fly.

23:07And my mind was,

23:09but in my family,

23:12I lost my sister.

23:14My,

23:15I mean,

23:16very important.

23:17She was like,

23:184 years older to me.

23:19And I lost her.

23:21And after that,

23:22this is when I was,

23:2312 years old?

23:25Okay.

23:2613 years,

23:2713, 12 years old.

23:28And after losing her,

23:29my concentration grew a lot.

23:31Because the roof broke.

23:32And I was very connected to her.

23:34And after that,

23:35because she was

23:36classically trained,

23:38and she was the person like,

23:40my mom and dad,

23:41actually,

23:42they thought,

23:43that this is what it is.

23:44That's what it is.

23:45That's what it is.

23:46Family music.

23:47So I left it to her.

23:48She is the one.

23:49I will do something else.

23:50So after losing her,

23:51there was a whole tension

23:53about how it will happen.

23:55So I left everything,

23:57and then I started doing music.

23:59I started learning.

24:00If it goes on,

24:02I have to do family golf.

24:03family golf.

24:04So I think,

24:05after seeing all these things in my life,

24:08I can't do good work.

24:10I have to do good work.

24:12I was not trained enough.

24:14I didn't learn music from my childhood.

24:16But again,

24:17it's a God gift that,

24:19I started learning it fast.

24:21Because mom and dad are brilliant people.

24:24they are like,

24:25I have never seen musicians.

24:27I have never seen them.

24:28And,

24:29when parents are like this,

24:31the outcome is going to be like this.

24:36It shook me a little bit.

24:37It took me off guard.

24:39It's just that.

24:40That's what the product of pain is.

24:42It's a good song.

24:44I'm going to be a good song.

24:46Let's just shift to Dilbar.

24:47Dilbar was a big hit.

24:49Made Nora Fatih.

24:50She is now.

24:51She is a sensation now.

24:53Right?

24:54So,

24:55how did that come to you?

24:56I think,

24:57that whole culture of remix started.

24:59Remix started exactly from Dilbar.

25:01I did my first remix.

25:03It was Homma.

25:05That was my first recreation.

25:07And,

25:08the most challenging.

25:09Because,

25:10it was Rahman's song.

25:11Of course.

25:12And,

25:13I went to a volcano.

25:16So,

25:18it was a challenge.

25:19And,

25:20after that success,

25:21people started calling me for recreations.

25:23Because,

25:24it's a tag.

25:25And,

25:26when the product is like this,

25:28it will become a song.

25:30Then,

25:31people will come to me.

25:32So,

25:33I came to me.

25:34Then,

25:35Dilbar came.

25:36And,

25:37Nicol Advani's film,

25:38I think.

25:39So,

25:40I didn't know who is Nora Fatih.

25:41What is the film about.

25:42And,

25:43I just had an idea.

25:44That,

25:45this is a good song.

25:46And,

25:47people should know about it.

25:48So,

25:49I made a song.

25:50And,

25:51initially,

25:52I was not happy.

25:53Because,

25:54I didn't even know the song.

25:55Why am I,

25:56making it very commercial.

25:58It's okay as it is.

25:59But,

26:00when I was a singer.

26:01I think,

26:02Dhuani sang a part in it.

26:04and Neha.

26:05So,

26:06both of them,

26:07when both of them,

26:08came to me.

26:09And,

26:10they sang a song.

26:11They said,

26:12what a beautiful song this is.

26:13You composed very well.

26:14I said,

26:15you don't know who is the song.

26:16You made it.

26:18I said,

26:19it's not mine.

26:20It's an old song.

26:21It's from a film.

26:22Okay.

26:23So,

26:24people will not.

26:25They don't know.

26:26So,

26:27I said,

26:28when you don't know,

26:29I have to do this.

26:30I have to bring these people back.

26:32To the youngsters.

26:33To the youngsters.

26:34And,

26:35then,

26:36I started working on the track.

26:37I had a whole heart.

26:38And,

26:39obviously,

26:40the visuals were amazing.

26:42And,

26:43when the song came,

26:44Noura was born out of it.

26:47But,

26:48tell me one thing.

26:49Do music labels actually dictate,

26:52and challenge composers,

26:55or a musician's creativity?

26:57Do they say,

26:58I want this,

27:00not what you are doing?

27:02Does it happen?

27:03Does it happen?

27:04No,

27:05never.

27:06They only say,

27:07I want what you see yourself to be a super attract.

27:11Or,

27:12you have faith in it.

27:13And,

27:14when I don't have faith in something,

27:16I tell them,

27:17sir,

27:18this is bad.

27:19I don't want to do.

27:20So,

27:21one of the track is Masakali,

27:22which people tell me,

27:23trolled about.

27:24So,

27:25that's in the waste bin.

27:26That was not even,

27:27a product,

27:28which I had produced.

27:29Yeah.

27:30I got it done by somebody,

27:31a little bit,

27:32to hear what's the track like.

27:33And,

27:34I threw it off.

27:35I said,

27:36no,

27:37I don't want to spoil the track,

27:38because it's a good track.

27:39Why am I doing it?

27:40I don't want to spoil the track.

27:41You can't keep all the things,

27:43you can't keep everything.

27:45Masakali,

27:46what I had a backlash,

27:48I remember reading it somewhere,

27:51I'm not very sure,

27:54if you said it around the same time or not,

27:56but,

27:57I remember you passing a statement,

27:59that you may criticize my work or whatever.

28:01But,

28:02I'm going to keep making sure.

28:04Yeah,

28:05because,

28:06Is it actually true?

28:07Do you have no difference between trolling?

28:08No,

28:09I do not have any difference between trolling.

28:10It's a difference.

28:11It's a difference between trolling and trollers,

28:13I don't even know them.

28:14Well,

28:15I don't even know them.

28:16So,

28:17you don't even see social media?

28:18I don't even know them,

28:19But it's not different.

28:20And you know it?

28:21Yeah,

28:22I am tell you.

28:23I am very,

28:24in direct,

28:25I am really,

28:26I am into a lot of,

28:27technically I am very strong.

28:29Like,

28:30I can make another instagram also myself,

28:31like,

28:32I am very strong,

28:33with AI and all.

28:34Nobody knows about it.

28:35But,

28:36when AI was not born also,

28:37I was researching on that,

28:38I was actually researching on that because my sister was into artificial intelligence.

28:41So I knew what happens is that there are a lot of places where you pay them money

28:50and they will give you a hundred thousand comments from blue tick artists.

28:57To build a perception because they want artists to come down.

29:03So a lot of this negativity happens from zero follower bots.

29:07Do you want to collaborate with your favourite single?

29:10With Zara.

29:12Because my first single, which I remember, was a single that was released by Universal.

29:20And that time, I didn't know what to do with this single.

29:26So with Zara, it was very good.

29:28We went to Sydney and we had an entire team.

29:32And they were just more than her.

29:34It was like she and every team was behind me.

29:36And she should look good.

29:37I just wanted to do acting like that.

29:39So that episode I remember.

29:41And I remember, I was like,

29:43I was like a hero like that.

29:45And I think that was one.

29:47And she is an amazing artist herself.

29:49And because I am very close to her family, especially Salma Agha.

29:53Because Salma Aunty is like, she loves me like that.

29:56I mean, if I go somewhere, I ask her to ask her.

30:00And I call her grandma.

30:02And she says, grandma, tell me if I'm wrong.

30:04So she will tell me in the phone.

30:06And I said, no, this is like Sourjo.

30:08Rata Lambia is like singing on stage.

30:10So like that.

30:11So I think she is one.

30:12And Jubin is another.

30:14Jubin not yet.

30:15Yeah.

30:16Okay.

30:17Tell us one song that you wish you'd been the first to remix.

30:21Before anyone else touched it.

30:24This is one song.

30:26What is it called?

30:28What is it called?

30:30What is it called?

30:31What is it called?

30:32What is it called?

30:33It was in this film called Crew.

30:35Yeah, I know.

30:36Okay.

30:37Okay.

30:38So the next game is called Collab or Cancel.

30:41Okay.

30:42So I'm going to drop you some celebrity or singer names.

30:45And you said, you will collab with them.

30:48Or you will cancel them.

30:50Because they are not your vibe.

30:51As simple as that.

30:52Okay.

30:53So first thing is Arjeet Singh.

30:55First name is Arjeet Singh.

30:56Obviously, Collab.

30:58If you do it, then you do it.

31:00Would you?

31:01Cancel.

31:02Huh?

31:05Yeah.

31:06Yeah.

31:07Okay.

31:08Now don't do it.

31:09Shriya Gosar?

31:10Collab.

31:11Honey Singh?

31:12Collab.

31:13Divine?

31:14Collab.

31:15There is K-pop artist called Jungkook.

31:20Collab.

31:24Actor.

31:25Kreeti Sanand?

31:27Cancel.

31:29Alia Bhatt?

31:31Collab.

31:32Okay.

31:33One name is Nungi.

31:35He is not alive anymore.

31:36But would you have wanted to collaborate with him?

31:38Siddhumu Sibala?

31:39Obviously collab.

31:40Yeah.

31:41Do you happen to have met him?

31:44It was strange.

31:45Before he passed away, I was in the same party with him.

31:50Okay.

31:51In Bombay.

31:52And I have heard about him a lot.

31:56But I didn't know him.

31:58I saw him and I said, I have to collab with him.

32:02I want to work with this guy.

32:03So you had that.

32:04Yeah.

32:05I wanted to work with him because his voice is something else.

32:08Yeah.

32:09And he is a legend.

32:11Yeah.

32:12I want to work with him.

32:13Now, this one is called Studio Confessions.

32:16Last game.

32:17Okay.

32:18I am not going to bore you more with games.

32:20So, now I am going to ask you, give you some prompts basically, some situations.

32:28And you have to tell me any story or any moment related to that.

32:34Okay.

32:35Tell me one song that broke you mentally.

32:39Remancers songs from Bombay.

32:45And another one was Agar Tum Saato.

32:49The session where you thought that, oh my god, this is going to be a disaster.

32:56I already know it.

32:57Who is mine?

32:58Yeah.

32:59No.

33:00None of them.

33:01None of them?

33:02Okay.

33:03One line of feedback from a producer that didn't sit well with you.

33:08There are two things.

33:10Like what did they say?

33:11I felt that they actually don't understand my music a lot.

33:16Wait, I will tell you the name only.

33:18It's from, it's this film called Satya Prem Ki Katha.

33:21And Karthik was there.

33:23Karthik was there.

33:24Yes.

33:25It's a project but I feel that they have underestimated my power and they wasted one of my biggest song in the film with Arjeet.

33:32So I would never want to work with that team ever.

33:35Apart from Karthik I am working with, but not with that team.

33:40Any recording that sort of made you emotional unexpectedly?

33:45I was very emotional because I put in money from my pocket to get the song and hearing the song I felt that a lot of people are going to have a breakup with this song maybe.