From Jilawatan’s metal rock to Aao Wish Karein’s essentially pop rock, has Bollywood been constraining your music or do you have the freedom of composition?
Bollywood hasn’t constrained my music at all! Since I started listening to music, I have heard and appreciated music of every kind. Yes, I am wild on stage. I want to rock on stage. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t want to express softly as well. With the kind of varied listening I have, it’s actually pretty natural for me to do all kinds of music. I even did a dance remix for my own song – ‘Yeh Pal’ from the movie Aasma – along with my friend Sami; I love listening to it every time I am out on a long drive. Yes, most of my released work is rock. Most of that happened pretty early in my music career. It was a maturing phase in my life and I used to believe that the guitar is made to sound heavy. I am a rebel by nature. But that rebel has understood that a certain kind of music (in this case, rock) should not constraint me from expressing what I want to express and how I want to express it. I won’t be a rebel if I am constrained, right (smiles)? With Aao Wish Karein, you have branched
